Very followed personality on social networks, videographer and influencer, Léna Mahfouf, alias Léna Situations, has just published "Always more" by Robert Laffont editions.
A personal development and "empowerment" book, where she delivers her tips for applying her motto "+ = +": the positive calls for the positive.
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"Always more"
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Léna Mahfouf, under the pseudonym of Léna Situations, publishes a 152-page book with Robert Laffont editions combining personal development, anecdotes and fights.
Aged 22, she is part of the emerging generation of YouTube, has 1.5 million subscribers, mostly people between 18 and 24, on the video platform, while 2 million people follow her adventures on Instagram .
His motto: "+ = +", the positive attracts the positive.
"When I built the book, I built it like a video so it's very interactive," she says on Europe 1.
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"I wanted to deconstruct the book object, which I find magnificent but I like the hyper personalized side. Especially since personal development is something very subjective. I like the idea that people go appropriate certain passages, highlight them, scribble them ", confides the young influencer.
The publications of famous YouTubers have multiplied in recent years, to such an extent that it was the editors who contacted Léna Situations to offer her to carry out her project.
Basically, the young woman, not feeling legitimate, had started with an idea of an agenda, quickly replaced by a more complete book project to help young people to break the negative spiral.
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Throughout the pages, readers will discover "Empowerment" advice, or how to have self-confidence, develop your projects by assuming your personality.
Léna Mahfouf looks back in particular on her adolescence, a difficult period where harassment is often daily, including from friends.
“Unfortunately, when I talk about it with people of my generation, it hasn't changed much. Free meanness is the most commonplace thing. At the time I thought it was normal,” explains the young lady.
She also gives her tips to fight against anxiety attacks.
"I am not a Care Bears, I would like to succeed in doing all this without the stress, the anguish, the questioning, but it's the human side. That's how we savor everything even more which is positive, ”she reacts.
"Let us do what we want"
In "Always more", Léna Mahfouf also looks back on the fights which are dear to her.
She cites in particular an episode that occurred during the deconfinement on social networks.
As she posts a pic of herself in a dress at a picnic, she receives a surge of hateful and misogynistic comments, followed by a wave of support that spawns the hashtag # Lénachallenge.
"The next morning I wake up and a journalist contacts me asking me whether my reaction is exclusive to the hashtag 'Léna Challenge', I see that it has taken on a crazy scale, my outfit has caused a lot of talk, I was told a lot 'shame' on the size of my chest, on my body ", recalls the YouTuber.
"The problem is that men allow themselves to give their opinions on a woman's body, to the point of making it a trend on Twitter. And to my disappointment, women also participated in the thing," says she does.
Targeted by many criticisms on social networks, the young woman is fighting to send a simple message "Let us do what we want".