101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens

STORY 81 BLOWING AWAY PAIN: A KID STORY Therapeutic Characteristics Problems Addressed ■ Pain ■ Hurting without support figures ...

popped. It was as if she were blowing her scary feelings away. Perhaps, if she’d wanted, she might have imagined the scary, hurt ...

player. He went to every game he could and, when he couldn’t, he’d watch them on TV. He got ex- cited when they were winning, an ...

Resources Developed ■ Learning about your abilities ■ Thinking through a problem ■ Using your own strengths ■ Doing more of what ...

one had made a fool of him. He was as mad as a bear with a sore paw. “Climb up on my shoulder, Squirrel,” he said gruffly. “It’s ...

by himself and, though he wouldn’t have said anything about it to his friends at school, at times he cried himself to sleep. He ...

Resource Developed ■ Valuing relationships with loved ones ■ Learning to seek information ■ Discovering how to use imagination h ...

When Jill began to ask her doctor, he explained a lot more about how the cancer was making bad cells instead of good cells and t ...

Outcomes Offered ■ Personal empowerment ■ Improved interpersonal relationships ■ Control over problems like drugs ■ Goal achieve ...

and he’s left me looking forward to something. He has promised to drive up to my office and show me his new car when he gets it. ...

stop and remember when you first went to school. It felt scary and unfamiliar then, but look at how you handle it now. If you ma ...

Can you imagine what it might be like to begin learning to walk at the age of twelve? Most of us learn to walk when we are so yo ...

STORY 89 FACING THOUGHTS OF SUICIDE Therapeutic Characteristics Problems Addressed ■ Parental disharmony ■ Feelings of rejection ...

“Go on. Hit me. Show me what a man you are,” she goaded him. Well, he did hit her and pushed her into her room, slamming the doo ...

STORY 90 LEARNING TO CARE FOR YOURSELF Therapeutic Characteristics Problems Addressed ■ Substance abuse ■ Being stuck ■ Caught i ...

laxed and confident outside. It was interesting for me—but more important for her—to see the things that contributed to her feel ...

so stuck and powerless? What had taken place in that conversation between Peta and Philip, my teddy bear? When I asked her, tear ...

A s mentioned in Chapter 3 and discussed further in Chapter 15, it may be helpful to (a) listen to the metaphors children use, ( ...

STORY 91 THE GHOST WHO LEARNED TO SCARE (contributed by Sam Green) Therapeutic Characteristics Problems Addressed ■ Feelings of ...

The day came and they all went to the contest. There were heaps more. After everyone had done their scare, the ghost did his. “A ...