My Emotions Are Not Me
About "My Emotions Are Not Me"
Feelings! Feelings! SO many feelings! They make us scream, they make us dance, some of them scare us right out of our underpants. All kids need safe ways to express their emotions!
"My Emotions Are Not Me" is a fun, interactive journal full of drawing prompts, meditations, and guided adventures to help readers age 8 & up keep the magic of childhood alive.
Packed with tools for children to navigate the sometimes overwhelming oceans of emotion, "My Emotions Are Not Me" encourages readers to connect with nature and their own inner wisdom as they learn that, like clouds in the sky, emotions are temporary.
Along the way we'll practice
• Happiness habit building activities
• Tracking emotions in connection with daily activities
• Breathing with the ocean
• Moving from stormy to calm
• Exploring our connection to Mother Earth
• and get to know ourselves a little better!
Kids can use this book on their own or with the help of a caring adult. Other exercises focus on using breath to regulate emotions, practicing flexible thinking, perspective taking, and body awareness. In watching the ebb and flow of emotions through the lens of nature, we hope your children will see the beauty of who they are.
"The ocean has seen great storms, but it always calms down. How do you think it calms itself?"
"My Emotions Are Not Me" is great for parents, teachers, and counselors too!
Sample Pages
ABOUT NIKKI
Nikki Ann Davis is an award-winning photographer and has appeared in National Geographic Magazine.
For Davis, the art of photography has always been entangled with her profound bond to the natural world. Before becoming a professional photographer, she earned a degree in Ecology from Penn State University and worked as a biologist.
However, it was her childhood that truly imprinted the importance nature had in her life and expression. Davis grew up playing in the forests of Northeast Pennsylvania. Ever since she was five years old, Davis learned how steadying the natural world can be for mental health. It later provided an escape from her abusive step-father and helped her meditate and regulate difficult emotions.
Today, Davis combines her intimate and professional knowledge of nature with photographic skill to teach photography classes to teens. Her course focuses on mindfulness, seeing people as they are without labels, and storytelling through two-dimensional images. It combines her love of revealing new perspectives through the lens of a camera and working with children.
She's been teaching Qigong for the last seven years. Davis had taught herself meditation at twelve, but after studying with Master Zhongxian Wu, she was able to grow through grief and heal trauma sustained during the later years of her childhood.
After becoming a mother and experiencing the tragic loss of her niece, Davis shifted her focus to Chinese medicine and philosophy to help her navigate and understand her emotions.
As someone with neurodivergence and as a mother, Davis knew that the best teaching she could pass on to her son was in understanding emotions through establishing connections, both interpersonal and to the natural world. For years, Davis searched through books for the words that would help him make this connection but found none, she knew she had to write the book that would help him and all children understand and help them regulate their emotions.
Nikki currently resides in Maryland, original land of the Nentengo, Piscataway and Susquehannock peoples.
ABOUT JENNIE
Jennie Lee Perez is a professional artist specializing in painting and drawing. A synesthete and artist from birth, she used the process of creation as a medium to transmute big emotions.
Through her work she gained confidence and began to manifest her dreams. Jennie began to travel the world on an evolutionary journey that eventually brought her to Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design where she studied Art Education.
As a mental health advocate and art enthusiast, Jennie’s goal is to teach others through art in a way that allows them to understand that they can grow through emotional challenges and meet the beauty in every day.
Jennie currently lives in the mountains of Pennsylvania, lands of the original Lenape Haki-nk people, with her loving husband, amazing daughter, and loyal pup.
Follow
