My Deep Breath

When children become overwhelmed by big emotions, what should they do? Take a Deep Breath? Yes!!

My Deep Breath is a book that does just that. This book shows a little boys journey through a variety of emotions that he encounters each day and while these emotions can be extremely scary for children, if we teach children ways to deal with their emotions in a positive manner, they become less scary and more accepting.

The parents are able to guide the little boy through this journey of emotional intelligence by using the power of deep breathing and mindfulness.

Each illustration shows different emotions, negative and positive. These include:

-Anger,

-Sad

-Scared

-Nervous

-excited

-surprised

Every page in this book has vibrant illustrations to show the different emotions that the child experiences and a parent helping the child through each scenario, followed by deep breathing to help the child learn how to self-regulate. The Language used in this book is straightforward and simple to enable children to follow, understand and engage with the book.

My Deep Breath is a book that is essential not only for a child and parent to read, but teachers to read with their students and caregivers to read with their children. With growing mental health concerns in our society, it is important to teach our future adults coping mechanisms at a very young age.