101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens

As Ernie and Emma pictured that safe place, their quills began to droop just a little, not too much at first, but just a little. ...

Te ss was a little sea turtle who had been nicknamed Tess the Terrible. As with people, there are important things that a little ...

thinking and feeling before I went inside is helpful. If it isn’t, then I ask myself what I could do to make things different wh ...

It is not always easy being the youngest in the family. At least, that was what Michelle told me. She was the youngest of three ...

cutbacks and Dad would have to fire several of the staff. These had been his friends for a long time, Dad answered. How could he ...

Sometimes it can be lonely, if you are a mouse who lives in a hole in a wall in the corner of a house all by yourself. Maybe it ...

“Thanks,” said Sleek-Fin, accepting Fred’s compliment. Fred was taken by surprise. He had been taught to be modest, and he might ...

“... [P]ositive emotions have an undoing effect on negative emotions,” asserts Fredrickson (2000), adding that desired feelings ...

STORY 41 HEIGHTENING PLEASURE: A KID STORY Therapeutic Characteristics Problems Addressed ■ A need to increase pleasurable exper ...

He loved the comforting warmth of the summer sun on his skin, though he was old enough to know, without being told, to cover up, ...

Taste Touch ■ Enjoying life’s simple pleasures Outcomes Offered ■ Pleasure ■ Contentment ■ Happiness ■ Self-initiated self-carin ...

eral sort of birds were calling: whistles, twits, songs, and then the hoot of an owl. Despite all the sounds she still thought o ...

■ Identifying the experience of fun ■ Learning to be playful ■ Building positive social skills ■ Learning to dofun things Outcom ...

kids. Once she put a rubber spider in another girl’s desk then waited for her to open the lid and scream.” “I wouldn’t necessari ...

Resources Developed ■ Appreciating the simple things ■ Feeling okay about yourself ■ Enjoying your own company ■ Enjoying the co ...

Fred tiptoed quietly passed Tabby to continue his exploration outside. Barely had he stepped out- side the doorway when he heard ...

This worried Matt. He liked his friends. He didn’t want to lose them but he didn’t know what to do about it. He had always been ...

STORY 46 HELPING WITH HUMOR Therapeutic Characteristics Problems Addressed ■ Feeling sad ■ Seeing someone you love feeling sad R ...

“One by one,” she said, “I rounded them up and got them back into their pen. When I finally got inside, I phoned your dad and as ...

to be born here. Oh, how he would have been willing to sell his soul for a nice meal of doggie poo, but the dog owners scooped t ...