A Place Called There: A Success Guide for Youth

You are not the worst thing that happened to you. And you are not the label somebody handed you before they knew your name.

A Place Called There: Teen Edition is a workbook that talks straight — no lectures, no fixing, no pretending your life is simpler than it is. It's built on one idea that changes everything once you see it: nobody ends up anywhere by accident. Where you're headed is being built right now, out of five things most people never stop to look at.

Time. Habits. Environment. Responsibility. Educate. T.H.E.R.E.

Across 40 pages of real questions and room to write your own answers, this workbook helps you map where your life is actually pointing — and hand you the pen to change it. You'll find:

• Honest exercises for each of the five pillars, plus deeper "workouts" to come back to

• A 30-day habit tracker and weekly check-ins to make change stick

• Pages for the hard parts: setbacks, tough conversations, and knowing your own warning signs

• A letter to your future self, a place to map the people in your corner, and space to build your own blueprint in your own words

  
  

Written by Kevin D. McNeil — a former Special Victims detective and ordained minister who spent twenty years across the table from young people everybody else had already given up on — this book isn't therapy and it isn't magic. It's attention, paid to the parts of your life that have always been shaping your future, whether anyone was watching or not.

Wherever you are right now, there's a place called there. This book helps you find the way.

Ideal for mentors, youth workers, diversion programs, counselors, and any young person ready to take the pen back.