In this weeks episode, Jessica Fowler speaks with Larissa Nickson, LCSW, PMH-C, RYT 200 about her book I Hold You In My Heart: A Children's Book & Parent Guide to Helping Children Cope with Loss.  In this book, the characters explore and navigate difficult emotions like grief, sadness and anger and along the way learn different coping strategies. 

Highlights from the episode:

3:46 Larissa shares how the book is for children and parents to explore loss and shares some examples of the coping skills that are taught in the book.

4:59 Larissa shares a little about her story of grief and what inspired the book.

6:25 Larissa shares how she choose to use the word loss, so this book can be used in a way that it can be about losing anything.

8:37 Larissa shares who the book is for.

In this episode, Jessica Fowler interviews Cara Fairfax about her children's book Island Hopper. Island Hopper is about a young penguin, Hoppy, who lives with two special grownups. Cara shares how this story sharing what it can be like for a young person to go from two different homes when one adult struggles with a personality disorder.