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You and Stress… A Brain Lesson

The book about stress for parents and children.

A richly illustrated explanation of what happens in your brain when you’re dealing with stress, or feeling angry or afraid. What do you feel, what do you do? How can you understand someone else when they are experiencing stress? Includes a workbook for children.

Features:

• Hardcover

• 48 pages with richly illustrated explanations

• Part of the book is aimed at adults (explaining emotion regulation)

• Part is aimed at children, with strong visual elements

At the back, you’ll find a QR code linking to a workbook for practicing emotion regulation and applying the tools offered.

What can you expect from this book?

This book explains what happens in your brain when internal or external stress becomes too much, and what kind of reactions this can trigger. As a caregiver and a child, you’ll gain a better understanding of these often highly stressful situations and learn to speak the same language about them. After all, when a child explodes with emotions, a caregiver often ends up having an emotional explosion of helplessness or frustration too — creating a chain reaction.

So what can you do when your brain is under stress, and how do you prevent an outburst from becoming a full-blown volcanic eruption?

You and Stress… A Brain Lesson

How do you use this book?

The first, blue part of the book contains information for adults.

It explains stress and emotion regulation in a grown-up, accessible way.

The green part contains explanations about stress and emotion regulation for everyone, especially children.

Where helpful, you’ll find “conversation pages.”

Talk together about the stress you experience at home, or the stress your child feels at school — perhaps something you recognize from your own childhood. Or about a situation your child went through that day.

The explanations encourage conversations about feelings:

What feeling was there, and what happened inside you?

What happened to others, and what might they have felt?

In this way, feelings and stress responses gain meaning within your relationship — and you’ll start to understand each other better.