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Dedication
To the inner children of adults who at some point in their lives needed loving guidance to manage their emotions. This book is for us and to share with the children in our lives.
In this beautiful, resourceful book, Andi teaches us strategies for managing intense emotions like anger. In a friendly and creative way, the therapist teaches her what lies behind anger, how to verbally express Andi's feelings and desires, and how to practice fun strategies like the noodle dance, which you can dance until your body calms down.
With much love, I wrote this therapeutic book with simple tools to help, encourage, and inspire you to channel and express emotions. I invite you to practice them yourself and with your children. Remember that this book is not a substitute for psychological counseling.
This therapeutic book can be an excellent tool for psychotherapists, teachers, parents, guardians, and caregivers.
Goals
• Destigmatize the idea of seeking psychological and family support, and introduce therapy as a healing step that some families take when they need support or tools to overcome any difficulty.
• Children can learn how a therapist can help them and their families with tools to manage problems and teach them about emotions .
• Remember that there are always ways to find calm and that adults are there to support them and teach them how to express their feelings and emotions.
• Start conversations with children and explore what is in their hearts.
• Prevent video game addictions and destructive behaviors such as hitting, cutting, burning, hurting, or harming others due to not knowing that emotions are good and necessary, but that there are healthy ways to express them that do not involve aggression and harm to things, animals, or people.
• Normalize emotions of anger or rage.
• Prevent anger from being stored or repressed.
• Strengthen the bond with the child by providing attention and strategies while telling a story.
• Strengthen the child's self-esteem. When a child learns and practices something new and does it well, they strengthen their self-esteem by experiencing that they can successfully learn and practice new things.
• Teach rules and limits. Adults set limits. We know what children need and we must act accordingly, even if they don't like the limits (see the 3 things that should be respected).