This is a book about what happens when you experience stress or tension and what you can do about it. This book contains a lot of information about how your brain works and what happens in your brain and in your behavior when you feel stressed. This book, with a lot of clear images, explains what happens inside the brain when you experience a lot of tension, or when there are a lot of big things going on in your life. Because of the clear images it is understandable for both children and adults. When reading this book together with a child, you'll create a shared language in which to talk about these difficult situations. You'll learn to prevent tension from building up so you can keep the situation from exploding. The first part of the book is about stress and emotion regulation. It explains in adult terms how emotions can lead to stress, and how this stress can then lead to stress related behavior. This part is meant to provide adults with some background information. After that, the brain is explained in images, in a way both young and old can understand. The 'talk pages' will invite you to talk about emotions and stress together. What did you feel? What happened inside your body? What happened to other people involved, and what may they have felt? This way, you'll both get a better understanding of what happens on the inside, for both of you. The book offers various ways to regulate stress and even to prevent stress.
In the back of the book, you'll find a QR code which leads to our website, from which you can download a workbook. With this workbook, children will be able to keep track of situations that cause them stress. It will allow them to record what happened, what they thought and felt because of it, how they reacted, and how other people involved may have felt. If children practice this repeatedly, using the tips from this book, they will learn what to do when they experience stress or when they notice someone else is suffering from stress. Therapists, psychologists, teachers, parents and children love to work with this book because it is so easy to understand, recognizable and easy to apply in daily life.
