Finding My Calm
From the award-winning creators of How Do I Feel? comes an expertly crafted book about building the confidence to overcome stressful moments through a fun, memorable rhyme!
Finding My Calm highlights the importance of mindfulness and self-regulating one’s emotions. Aimed at children aged 3-7, the gentle narrative and accessible rhyme offers kids a meaningful way to explore mindfulness practices while strengthening their social-emotional learning (SEL).
UNPACKING FEELINGS: Educators, therapists and guardians looking for practical tools to discuss methods of emotional regulation can use Finding My Calm as a springboard for meaningful conversations.
REVIEWED BY MENTAL HEALTH EXPERTS: All Wildling Books are reviewed by both mental health and parenting professionals, and are bolstered with relevant parent/teacher notes, useful exercises and more.
TRUSTED CREATORS: From a bestselling creative team whose books have won multiple New Zealand children's book awards.
Rebekah Lipp is an author, entrepreneur and mental health advocate residing in New Zealand. She co-wrote Finding Gratitude (Quarto, 2019). Her personal journey with anxiety, depression and borderline personality disorder inspired her work, alongside a passion to bring awareness to children’s mental health, emotional well-being and anxiety. After experiencing two years of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) following a period of crisis in her early twenties, she felt there was a real gap in what professionals knew and what parents and teachers needed to know regarding emotional regulation. With a gentle parenting approach, Rebekah feels that all children have genius within them and if we act out of a place of compassion, kindness and love, we will see our children thrive.
Craig Phillips is an award-winning illustrator whose art has appeared in published works, anthologies and exhibitions across the world. He worked on Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and his first solo work, Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts won the New Zealand Book Award’s Russell Clark Award for Illustration, an Australian Gold Ledger, a CBCA Notable and was a finalist in the Aurealis Awards. Craig lives and works in New Zealand.