Awaken Kindness Within: Embrace Compassion and Healing

By Mr Cong Phan

Seventeen-year-old Lian Tran has always believed that perfection is the only way to survive - in school, in debate, in friendships, in life. But when she freezes during the biggest competition of the year, everything she's been holding together begins to crack.
As academic pressure mounts, friendships strain, and rivalry intensifies, Lian discovers a leather notebook left behind by her late mother - a notebook containing a single, powerful passage about kindness. A passage that becomes her lifeline.
With the help of her grandmother, a quiet artist named Evan, and the painful lessons of her past, Lian begins a journey of self-forgiveness. But storms don't pass easily, and learning to be gentle with herself may be the hardest challenge she's ever faced.
Dramatic, humorous, and deeply inspirational, Awaken Kindness Within is a YA story about burnout, healing, friendship, love, and the courage it takes to open your heart - first to yourself, and then to the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GCD35K94
• ISBN13: 9798241081803
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 42 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"