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Technology can provide answers, entertainment, and connection. It cannot do the growing for us.
Awakening the Five Champions is a practical, psychology-based guide that helps young people strengthen resilience, creativity, empathy, connection, and curiosity. The new edition brings this framework into the world they're navigating now, including social media, screens, and artificial intelligence. It isn't anti-technology. It helps young people use powerful tools without losing the experiences that build confidence, judgment, relationships, and competence.
Meet the Five Champions
Five inner strengths every young person can build, that technology can't build for them.
Hover or tap to discover each champions abilities
Warrior
RESILIENCE
Facing difficulty, tolerating discomfort, and continuing to act.
Wizard
CREATIVITY
Thinking flexibly, solving problems, and developing judgment.
Healer
EMPATHY
Understanding emotions, caring for oneself and others, and restoring balance.
Lover
CONNECTION
Building relationships, kindness, belonging, and genuine closeness.
Seeker
CURIOSITY
Exploring, learning, growing, and finding a sense of direction.
For young people and the adults helping them grow
Written directly to teens, with practical value for the adults who support them in a technology-rich world.
Educators
Teens
Parents
School Counselors
Therapists
Award-winning first edition
Nautilus Book Awards
Silver Medal, 2025
Young Adult Non-Fiction
Embodies the sound wisdom of a trusted mentor.
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About the author
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About Dr. Brian Razzino
Brian E. Razzino, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist with over three decades of experience working with teens, families, and adults. He leads Razzino & Associates in Falls Church, Virginia, and earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from DePaul University, with an internship at Children's National Medical Center. He is known for helping young people discover and build the strengths they already have.
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