How Do I Feel?

Exploring 60+ emotions, How Do I Feel? is an essential emotional literacy resource for parents, carers and educators looking to facilitate improved emotional communication with children. Throughout the book, Aroha and her friends share how different emotions present within the body and find the words to express how they truly feel to the trusted adults around them.
 
How Do I Feel? gives kids the opportunity to develop their emotional language, offering them a meaningful tool to recognise, label and understand their emotions, and strengthen their social-emotional learning (SEL) in the process.
 
BUILD EMOTIONAL LITERACY: This expertly crafted resource provides the linguistic tools to describe and measure a broad spectrum of emotions.
 
REVIEWED BY MENTAL HEALTH EXPERTS: All Wildling Books are reviewed by both mental health and parenting professionals, and are bolstered with relevant parent/teacher notes, useful exercises and more.
 
TRUSTED CREATORS: Wildling Books are an award-winning and bestselling creative powerhouse whose books have been recognised in the Storylines Children’s Literature Trust of NZ Book Awards and the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
 
‘This book is a much-needed tool for children and those caring for them. By showing that a wide range of emotions each have their own unique value and purposes, this book helps to both normalise and encourage understanding towards the big emotions and feelings that, although sometimes demonised, are experienced by each and every one of us at some point in our lives.’ — DANIELLE WHITBURN, Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand
 
Perfect for:

• Parents and guardians looking for social-emotional learning (SEL) resources and books to spark conversations around emotions with kids
• Teachers, educators, librarians and caregivers
• Kids looking for books about how to name and express their emotions
• Fans of Aroha Knows, Aroha’s Way and Aroha’s Choice

About the Author

Rebekah Lipp is an author, entrepreneur and mental health advocate residing in New Zealand. She co-wrote Finding Gratitude (Quarto, 2019). Her personal journey with anxiety, depression and borderline personality disorder inspired Wildling Books, alongside a passion to bring awareness to children's mental health, emotional well-being and anxiety. After experiencing two years of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) following a period of crisis in her early twenties, she felt there was a real gap in what professionals knew and what parents and teachers needed to know regarding emotional regulation. She believes that we can empower children with skills, help children connect with their emotions, and teach them ways to regulate them.

With a gentle parenting approach, Rebekah feels that all children have genius within them and if we act out of a place of compassion, kindness and love, we will see our children thrive.

About the Illustrator

Craig Phillips is an award-winning illustrator whose art has appeared in published works, anthologies and exhibitions across the world. He worked on Neil Gaiman's American Gods and his first solo work, Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts won the New Zealand Book Award's Russell Clark Award for Illustration, an Australian Gold Ledger, a CBCA Notable and was a finalist in the Aurealis Awards. Craig lives and works in New Zealand.