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Available October 12th!

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"Outstanding, comprehensive, and thorough! Its accessible trauma-informed activities gently guide children toward a compassionate understanding of their big feelings."
-Gabi Garcia, author of Listening to My Body

"A must have for parents, educators, and children!"

-Dr Alli Williams

Riley the Brave's big feelings activity book

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"This book covers so much ground in teaching kids about their brains and giving adults a roadmap for supporting that learning. 

- Dr Alli Williams

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have for parents, educators, and children!"

A must 

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big feelings

wholehearted parenting

healing from
trauma

self care

difficult conversations

JESSICA SINARSKI, LPCMH

Author • Speaker • Instigator of Hope

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Book launch edition I love my job. I get to help lots of humans with big, human things. But sometimes my downstairs brain gets loud. Last month marked my eighth time (what!!??? How can that be?) sharing a precious book baby of mine out into the world, and I have noticed some patterns. 2-3 months […]

Big Feelings

A peek inside my (downstairs) brain

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I used to play teacher as a kid.  I had my cabbage patch dolls and stuffed animals all lined up, eager recipients of my brilliant eight-year-old instruction. It was always more difficult to play teacher with real humans. If I convinced my brother or a friend to join in, I didn’t like how it went. I […]

Educators

Move Your Body to Fuel Your Brain

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Sadness is a complicated, vulnerable emotion.  Feeling sad is uncomfortable for most people, it seems, even though it is an integral part of the human experience. When sadness is related to the deep, confusing grief of childhood trauma or other ambiguous losses–all the things Hallmark doesn’t make cards for–it can be even more difficult to […]

Big Feelings

Safe to Feel Sad

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A true story of rupture and repair One of my boys had been rude to me on and off all afternoon. To be fair, it was mostly concentrated from 6-8pm. I thought it might boil over when he took the taco shell – the only one I had – OFF MY PLATE even though he […]

Parenting

Just brush your damn teeth

categories

WHOLEHEARTED PARENTING

DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS

SELF CARE

BIG FEELINGS

HEALING FROM
TRAUMA 

JESSICA SINARSKI, LPCMH

Author • Speaker • Instigator of Hope

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