About Nicola Morgan

Nicola Morgan is a multi-award-winning author for and about teenagers and an renowned speaker at conferences and schools around the world. Her classic book on the teenage brain, BLAME MY BRAIN – THE TEENAGE BRAIN REVEALED, was followed by THE TEENAGE GUIDE TO STRESS and THE TEENAGE GUIDE TO FRIENDS and innovative multimedia teaching resources on the brain and mental health, BRAIN STICKS™, STRESS WELL FOR SCHOOLS and EXAM ATTACK. Her next books are POSITIVELY TEENAGE (May) and LIFE ONLINE (June). She writes articles at www.nicolamorgan.com

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Job-hunting for young people - 8: "Interviews make me sick with nerves so I never show my best side."

Nicola Morgan understands teenage stress as well as anyone - she's even written a book about it. Now she turns her understanding towards helping them relax at job interviews

Nicola Morgan

Jul 15, 2014

The Happiness Club

Negative Friendships, Toxic Friends and Frenemies

A shortened, adapted extract from the section on negative friendships in The Teenage Guide to Friends, reproduced by permission of Walker Books.

Nicola Morgan

Apr 11, 2017

Book Club

A Competition for Dyslexia Awareness Week

Here's a fun and simple competition for you, with dyslexia-friendly books as the prize!

Nicola Morgan

Nov 04, 2014

Book Club

Scientific evidence for the benefits of Readaxation - at last!

You might think we don't need evidence for something so obvious - that reading is good for our mental health and our brains in many ways - but if we are to ask for support to promote reading for pleasure, we will be asked for evidence. Now we have it.

Nicola Morgan

Aug 11, 2015

Family & Relationships

Exam results and resilience

Nicola Morgan, author of The Teenage Guide to Stress and Blame My Brain - The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed, among other books, shows teenagers and parents how to deal with exam results that are not what you'd hoped

Nicola Morgan

Aug 13, 2014

Self

Blue Monday - advice for young people (and not so young!)

We all know that winter is a time when people more often feel low, but when you're actually feeling like that, or if you're a teenager and maybe don't realise that it's normal, you may need extra support. Nicola Morgan, expert on adolescence, offers that support.

Nicola Morgan

Jan 19, 2015

52 WAYS TO WELLBEING

Head Talks, Self, The Happiness Club , How To Achieve Your Goals