101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens

Resources Developed ■ Learning to smile ■ Learning to laugh ■ Building positive feelings Outcomes Offered ■ Smiles ■ Laughter ■ ...

lift the corners of our mouth like you did, but when we genuinely smile, we raise the muscles in our cheeks and around our eyes. ...

Patty was studying drama at school. She told me about something their drama teacher, Ms. Roberts, asked them to do at school. “L ...

Resources Developed ■ Learning to step aside from the emotional response ■ Looking at things more rationally ■ Experimenting to ...

This is interesting, thought Raelene. She now used the same loving words in a gentle, loving voice. Again Crystal emerged, tail ...

T he notion that how we think, to a large degree, determines the ways that we feel and behave is an idea that was proposed back ...

Resources Developed ■ Acknowledging loss ■ Learning that grief is okay ■ Experiencing stages of grief ■ Learning to move on ■ Fo ...

Little Bear answered, “About him being dead and how sad I am without him.” “Then just close your eyes for a moment,” said Mama B ...

to greet Bill when he got home from school instead of leaping up, paws on Bill’s chest, trying to lick his face. Dad had taken h ...

Resources Developed ■ Offering a helping hand ■ Engaging in acts of kindness ■ Controlling our wants for the sake of another per ...

It was a special moment of tenderness. I think we all felt touched about doing something nice for something else, by being part ...

friendly enough, but do you just go to a stranger’s house for the night? What would her mother say when she tried to explain thi ...

Gameboy. Looking around, he hoped he might find an old box, a rock, or, with luck, even a ladder, but it was a tidy neighborhood ...

of her feet so they didn’t get tangled, causing her to fall. When her mind and muscles were working together, when everything fl ...

Outcome Offered ■ Skills in solution-focused thinking Christine, or Chrissie as her friends called her, was a good student. She ...

STORY 58 LEARNING TO USE WHAT YOU HAVE Therapeutic Characteristics Problems Addressed ■ Seemingly insoluble problems ■ Limited t ...

pulled herself up into the tree. The other frogs farther out in the pond watched in amazement as Phillipa climbed her way higher ...

■ Considering the needs of yourself and others ■ Learning from experience Outcomes Offered ■ Discriminatory skills ■ Ownership o ...

It’s okay for us boys to rough-house in my room,thought Harry, but not do the same in the park. It’s okay for the kangaroos to f ...

often leaving Madeline in tears. She hated crying because the other kids would call her a baby when she did. Scaredness seemed t ...