Feeling All the Feelings Workbook

Feeling All the Feelings Workbook by Brad Petersen and Betsy Petersen is a 2023 NAPPA Award winner.

This journal-like workbook is designed for kids ages 6-9 and features over 100 activities and practices to foster emotional awareness and regulation, exploring the importance of every feeling.

What does it mean to be calm, happy, grouchy, or even lonely? This workbook guides children through all these emotions and more, with fun, interactive, and playful illustrations. It includes activities such as:

• writing a disappointment diary,
• filling in their anger thermometer,
• writing their emotional observations in fluffy clouds,
• performing a "jealousy diagnosis" on a page resembling a doctor's clipboard,
• finding words in an emotion-based word search, and more!

Each emotion is introduced with questions such as: What is it? Why is it helpful? How do I recognise it? These questions encourage deeper thought about individual feelings, even those considered "bad".

In addition, young readers can learn mindfulness techniques like using their senses to ground themselves, doing a body scan, or sitting silently and feeling gratitude for those who give them strength. With 19 emotions and numerous activities and reflections to explore, children and caregivers can look forward to hours of engaging emotional exploration.