Be Mindful of Monsters: A Book for Helping Children Accept Their Emotions

by Lauren Stockly

“Be Mindful of Monsters” is designed to help children understand and cope with powerful emotions. The book follows Ezzy, a gender-neutral nine-year-old whose feelings of anger, sadness and worry have grown into monsters. With a compelling story and diverse characters, the book explores the challenges and benefits of accepting uncomfortable emotions. “Be Mindful of Monsters” can be used at home, in a therapy setting or in schools as part of Social Emotional Learning.Along with an engaging storyline and relatable main character, this book features therapeutic metaphors and activities. The feelings chart featured at the end of the book can be downloaded for FREE at bumblebls.com/shop. Check out the Mindful Monsters Therapeutic workbook which is designed to accompany the story and features over 100 pages of activities, coloring pages, feelings charts, crafts and more.