Leona Milton – författare

Now the popular book Take Charge is available in the Ukrainian languange. Buy the book and support Ukraine! 

The revenues from the book goes directly to Vivat Publishing in Ukraine. After the Russian invasion they have great difficulties selling their books. Therefore we want to help them survive by selling their book Opanuie Sebe (Take charge in Ukraine) from Sweden and sending them the revenues. About the book: What happens when you start to think about everything good about you instead of the opposite? This book explores self-esteem, self-confidence and self-compassion and gives tools and ideas on how to handle painful thoughts and feelings. It also provides an illustrative example of how the anxiety curve works, and explains way it is such an important curve to be aware of. Cover and design is made by the ukrainian illustrator Iryna Vale. 

Title transliteration: Opanui sebe. Dlia pidlitkiv, yaki khochut navchytysia kontroliuvaty svoie zhyttiaROLE MODELS FROM UKRAINE INTERVIEWED IN THE BOOK ARE:  Serhiy Prytula is a Ukrainian TV presenter, volunteer, public and political activist, and actor. Ambassador of the Ukrainian football team. Anna Polehenko is a young book blogger and columnist. She popularizes children's and teenage books.Andriy Szymanovsky is a tik-toker (210+ thousand followers and almost 5 million likes). He popularizes creatively the Ukrainian language. Iryna Slavinska is the author of the book "# _ : a book for girls and about girls", executive producer of "Radio Kultura", journalist and translator. Mark Livin is a writer, publisher of "The Village Ukraine", co-host of the psychology podcast "In Simple Words" (and co-author of the book of the same name), author of fiction and non-fiction books. Alyona Alyona is a Ukrainian rap singer and songwriter. Ukrainian publications call the performer a "new Ukrainian rap star" and a "sensation of Ukrainian rap". Elina Svitolina is a Ukrainian professional tennis player, winner of 18 WTA tournaments, bronze medalist of the XXXII Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo (Japan). Serhiy Zhadan is a Ukrainian writer, public figure, frontman of the Zhadan and Dogs band. Danylo Haydamaha is a language activist, popularizing the Ukrainian language in social networks. Kateryna Terletska is a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Head of the Laboratory of Mathematical Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Alina Pash is a Ukrainian singer, rapper, finalist of the sixth season of the vocal show "X-Factor". She destroys the system of old stereotypes spread all over the world. Oleksandr Grekhov is a Ukrainian artist, the author of the Shevchenko Quantum Leap project. Ilya Filipov is the CEO and co-founder of the EdEra online education studio. ADDITIONAL REGALIA: distance education expert of the OSCE Ukraine Project Coordinator; Top 30 under 30 by Kyivpost; Top 30 under 30 Forbes Ukraine; TEDx Kyiv speaker. Anastasia Nikulina is a Ukrainian writer, storyteller, Instagram blogger. Works in various genres and writes for a wide audience.

A SPECIAL THANKS to everyone making this project possible:- The authors, who give their royalties to Vivat Publishing - The OLIKA publishing house who does this work for free- The printing house Dardedze Holografija in Riga who prints for free