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Breathe: A Coloring Book

Children and their caring adults can use this book to learn a variety of breathing games and activities while also enjoying the relaxing benefits of coloring a collection of beautiful images related to each of the breathing activities.

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5 Keys to Conscious Parenting During Divorce E-Book

Divorce Is Tough—But Your Parenting Can Make All the DifferenceDivorce is one of the most challenging transitions a family can face. For children, it can create feelings of uncertainty, fear, confusion, and even trauma—especially when high conflict between parents takes center stage. But there’s hope: with conscious, mindful parenting, you can minimize the emotional toll on your children and help them thrive, even through this difficult time. This comprehensive e-book offers parents a practical, compassionate roadmap to support their children emotionally and psychologically during and after divorce. What You’ll Learn in This E-BookThe Impact of Loyalty Conflicts on ChildrenUnder...
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When Parents Are at War: A Child Therapist’s Guide To Navigating High Conflict Divorce & Custody Cases

All psychotherapists who work with children and families will come across cases with the parents divorcing or previously divorced experiencing high levels of conflict. These cases can be extremely complex and there can be potential hazards mental health professionals need to be aware of and prepared for. This book is a practical guide providing actionable measures mental health professionals can take to properly screen potential cases, establish and observe essential policies and protocols and observe important boundaries in order to preserve the integrity of the child's therapy and maintain healthy therapeutic relationships with the parents who are at war with one another without being pull...
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Miss Piper's Playroom: Helping Lily With Her Loss

Lily's father died and Lily is very sad. Lily's mother brought Lily to see Miss Piper to help her with her grief because she knew that Miss Piper helps children and families who are hurting and having a hard time. This is a therapeutic children's book written for child therapists and parents to acquaint children with the idea of going to counseling with a special kind of therapist who helps children using play, books, and expressive activities. This book addresses the experience of grief and how in time, children can begin to feel better with the help of a therapist like Miss Piper.This book and all the books in the Miss Piper's Playroom Series are written by licensed professional counselor ...
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Miss Piper's Playroom: ADHDer Aiden's Superpowers

Aiden is an ADHDer! Aiden has lots of superpowers including some big and bouncy energy! Miss Piper supports Aiden by forming a SUPER SUPPORT TEAM for Aiden that includes Miss Piper, Aiden, Aiden's parents, Aiden's teacher and Aiden's doctor. In Miss Piper's playroom Miss Piper introduces Aiden to playful activities that help sharpen Aiden's superpowers. This book seeks to help child therapists, parents, teachers and children with a neuro-divergent affirming approach to celebrating the abilities and supporting some challenges ADHDers may encounter in a predominantly neuro-typical world.

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Miss Piper's Playroom: Helping Wendel With His Worries

Wendel has a lot of worries. His worries were so big they were creating a lot of problems for Wendel. Wendel's mother brought him to visit Miss Piper and her playroom because she knew Miss Piper could help him. This is a therapeutic children's book designed for child therapists providing play therapy services to use with their clients. Wendel has generalized anxiety disorder. This book shows the course of Wendel's therapy at a young child's age appropriate level providing children with anxiety a chance to feel seen and heard and gain hope for overcoming their overwhelming worries. There is a therapists' section providing notes and some suggested therapeutic interventions for helping children...
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Miss Piper's Playroom: Helping Danny With His Parents' Divorce

Divorce is hard for children. When parents are arguing and having conflict, it's especially difficult for the children. In this book, Danny's parents are going through a divorce and they are having a hard time getting along. Danny's parents agreed to bring Danny to see Miss Piper in her playroom for therapy to help him through the difficulties of his parents' divorce. Danny is very sad, telling Miss Piper it feels like his parents are at war and that he feels caught in the middle. Miss Piper and Danny meet for therapy weekly and Miss Piper talks with Danny's parents, too, to help them understand what they can both do to help Danny. After many sessions together, Danny begins to feel better ab...
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Miss Piper's Playroom: A Place for Children to Play, Heal, Grow and Learn

This book introduces children, along with their caregivers, to the concept of going to therapy. Miss Piper is a therapist who supports children and their families using play and creative, expressive activities. Miss Piper has a special playroom where children come to play, heal, grow and learn with Miss Piper's help. Come and see what Miss Piper has in her playroom and learn what children and their families experience here. Therapists will find this book useful for bibliotherapy with child clients new to therapy services and will also find the For Therapists Section helpful as it provides inspiring ideas for interventions. This is the first book in a series of therapeutic children's books by...
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Miss Piper's Playroom: Helping Sal with Social Anxiety

This book is a part of the therapeutic children's book series Miss Piper's Playroom. In this book, Miss Piper who is a therapist who uses play-based and creative-expressive therapy interventions with children and families. In this book, Sal is a child suffering from social anxiety which shows up as selective mutism and occasional school-refusal. Sal's feelings are BIG and SCARY and Miss Piper helps Sal to feel her feelings and work through them to experience building toward a new experience in the therapy. Miss Piper uses games, art, playful activities and even a play therapy group to help Sal with social anxiety. Miss Piper also works with Sal's parents closely as a team. This book is an ex...
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Mindfulness Coloring Book: Positive Reminders

This mindfulness coloring book contains positive messages to support children, teens, and adults in consciously choosing to substitute automatic negative thinking with positive thoughts and affirmations that can support the cultivation of a more positive outlook and feelings of hope and encouragement while practicing mindfulness through the activity of coloring in shapes and images on the pages. This coloring book can support counselors who provide play therapy for children and families or school counselors working with students in the school and classroom setting. This coloring book can also be a wonderful gift for someone's birthday or holiday celebration.

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Miss Piper's Playroom: Supporting Autistic Ava

Autism is a way of being. Being autistic is a part of a person's identity. This book uses neurodiversity-affirming terminology to help caregivers, teachers and other adults best support children who are autistic. Ava's parents were worried about her because she was arriving home from school tearful, unable to do her homework and isolating in her room. Miss Piper is a child and family therapist who uses play therapy including creative, and expressive activities, games and toys, With Miss Piper's support, Ava discovers her sensory preferences in Miss Piper's playroom. Miss Piper helps Ava's teacher support Ava to be more comfortable being herself at school and helps Ava'a parents support Ava w...
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Ancient Africa: Discovering Lost Stories from Africa’s Early Civilizations (Secrets of the Forgotten Past)

Unlock the Lost Legends and Hidden Kingdoms of Ancient AfricaThink you know African history? While most people picture the pyramids of Giza, few realize that ancient Nubia built over two hundred pyramids — more than anywhere else on Earth. Packed with fascinating visuals and maps, Ancient Africa: Pyramids, Pharaohs, Lost Cities, and Powerful Kingdoms takes you on an unforgettable journey through the overlooked empires, captivating cultures, and brilliant innovations that shaped a continent.Here’s just a glimpse of what you’ll uncover inside:How ancient hunters from the San people used poison-tipped arrows to take down large gameThe mysterious “Land of Plenty” known as Punt — and ...
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Ark Angel

In Ark, clean air is currency, obedience is a cage, and Ember's survival demands a rebellion against both—or she'll cease to exist.Twelve-year-old Ember Bridgem has spent her life following the rules of Ark:Rule one—never leave home before turning twelve.Rule two—never breathe the bad air.Rule three—never enter the Under City alone.Rule four—never dare befriend a Blightblood.By the end of her twelfth birthday, she had broken all the rules.When Ember has a forbidden meeting with a Blightblood boy from the Under City, she’s drawn into a world she was taught to fear—one teeming with secrets, danger, and a fight for survival. But nothing in Ark stays hidden for long. When faced wit...
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The Green Platoon: A Prophetic Christian Supernatural thriller

A young Irish soldier on a peace keeping mission in the Middle-East, but are the events during the time of Jesus repeating themselves...Fionn O'Toole, a Christian, finds himself troubled when caught between Jewish and Arab adversaries. Doing his best for everyone, but can he be performing supernatural acts?With the full force of the state of Israeli rallied against him, how can he fulfil his simple destiny, to do some good in a world of conflict.Can a Messiah survive in this modern world and bring justice to all.The Green Platoon is the author's first Christian Prophetic Mystery. If a thrilling exploration of the Christian good news is your thing, you'll love Martin Hand's innovative take on...
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The Devil's Countdown: A Prophetic Christian Supernatural Thriller

A millennial old prophesy. A social media CEO at the top of his game. But who could have known, the fate of the world would become the game...Jeff Bourke had it made, leading the social media revolution during its early years. But he becomes aware that his company is involved in nefarious global events. Investigating, a prophesy emerges out of the blue. Can a depressed Jeff make himself believe in the supernatural.With the assembled might of a tech giant rallied against him and an unknown Judas in his midst, how can he fulfill his destiny? Can Jeff Bourke halt the revelation of a new and final apocalypse.The Devil's Countdown is the author's second Christian prophetic thriller. If a thrillin...
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