Skills for Big Feelings is a powerful guide to teach coping skills to children.

This activities guide book and social-emotional learning curriculum delivers an essential range of relaxation, self regulation, and emotional coping techniques for kids.

The program can be delivered in a variety of settings (individually, small group, or whole classroom) by teachers, counselors, and other mental health professionals.

Are You Trying to Reduce Children's Stress and Improve Their Emotional Health? 

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...Does Any of This Sound Familiar?

... You know you want to offer more social-emotional learning in your work with kids, but you’re simply too overwhelmed and you have no idea where to begin.

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... You don’t have the time or energy to plan and design your own comprehensive social-emotional learning curriculum.

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... You’d like to increase communication with families and teach them how they can help support the social-emotional wellness of their kids at home, but you’re too busy to take on this seemingly daunting task.
 

How would you feel if...

• The kids you worked with used simple, fun, and enjoyable strategies to cope with their emotions more effectively?

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• You could easily communicate to families how they can support social-emotional learning at home?

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• You didn’t have to scramble and spend so much time prepping, planning, and documenting your work so you could spend more time doing the parts of your job that you love?

Inside "Skills for Big Feelings" You'll Discover...

An all-in-one plan to help you do all of this and more. Specially crafted with something for you, the kids, AND their families, now you can combine every aspect of your social-emotional learning arsenal into one easy-to-manage program.

Skills for Big Feelings is Different From Other Books Because You'll Get:

By the Time You Are Done Reading...

• Identify and Accept Their Feelings

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• Acknowledge Triggers

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• Learn and Implement Over 38 Coping Skills

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• Change Unhelpful Thoughts into Helpful Thoughts

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• Measure Challenges

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• Accept Mistakes

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• Identify Supports

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• Apply the Feeling-Breath-Thought-Skill Method

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• Utilize Skills such as Visualization, Mindfulness, Gratitude, and Positive Self-Talk

.. And so much more 

What's Inside this SEL Curriculum:

A 12-week facilitators guide for teaching relaxation, regulation, and coping techniques to children

These sessions have been used successfully by teachers and counselors alike, forming a method of teaching kids how to cope with their big feelings. This plan provides you with a complete blueprint which is perfect for use with individuals, small groups, and entire classrooms. Plus, with outlines and samples scripts, you’ll save hours of extra work and stress.

Sixteen trauma-informed guided relaxation scripts

These Mindful Moments are the perfect way to start and end each session! They’re also written using trauma-informed invitational language.

Twelve handouts for families to extend and support social-emotional learning at home

These handouts will help you engage families so they can reinforce the concepts at home and take an active role in their child’s emotional development. Topics include naming and accepting feelings, identifying triggers, changing thoughts, measuring challenges, flexibility, visualization, media, attentional bias, positive self-talk, mistakes, perfectionism, mindfulness, control, gratitude, sleep, movement, nutrition, caregiver mindset, and self-care.

Surveys for children and families

These surveys will help you collect data and measure the impact of Skills for Big Feelings from both child and parent perspectives.

A data collection tool

This tool will help you progress monitor and evaluate your children’s progress.  You'll be able to assess the program to see what type of changes you could make to improve your outcomes.

A 28-page reproducible coloring workbook for children

Including over 45 images, as well as child-friendly breathing techniques, stretches, and relaxation skills, kids will be engaged with fun exercises including Unicorn Breath, Snowman Stress Melter Breath, and much more.

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Parent Letters

​Communication with parents is a vital part of the process. When families, counselors, and teachers work collaboratively together children see an incredible amount of success. Plus, with these sample letters for beginning and ending the 12 sessions, you can save time while you’re at it.

Treatment plan and IEP objective templates with examples

You'll receive 22 objectives which are S.M.A.R.T (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-limited) and directly related to the content covered in the sessions.

Visuals

These visuals will help you meet the needs of a variety of different learners. You’ll receive a Visual Schedule, Self-Scan Poster, Agreements Poster, Feelings Brainstorm Poster, The Triangle Poster, and a Measuring Challenges Poster.

Implementation tips and best practices for conducting social-emotional activities

With a wealth of helpful time-saving tips, plus useful suggestions for structuring the sessions, outlines, opening and closing practices, workbook tips, and ideas for working with children in various settings, implementation will be a breeze!

Bonus Bundle Offer

To make this incredible program even easier to implement, both in-person and in a virtual setting – I'm offering this add-on bonus bundle at a special price for a limited time.

45 Presentation Slides 

These full-color slides of the skills and visuals are perfect for screen sharing on virtual platforms or to use in-person on smartboards.

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Super Ultimate Growing Game Bundle

For a limited time, I am also offering EVERYTHING in the bonus bundle, plus 9 games, the Coping Skills Craftivity eBook with 40 coping skills craft projects, and future resources will be added at no additional cost to you!

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• Coping Skills Craftivities eBook: 221 pages of 40 coping skills arts and crafts projects!

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• Frog's Pond Game: digital and printable board game covers the material in Sessions 1-3 of Skills for Big Feelings

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• Back to the Nest Game: digital and printable board game covers the material in Sessions 4-6 of Skills for Big Feelings

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• Finding Flowers Game: digital and printable board game covers the material in Sessions 7-9 of Skills for Big Feelings

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• Puddle Jumpers Game: digital and printable board game covers the material in Sessions 10-12 of Skills for Big Feelings

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• Feelings Identification Film Digital Game: aligned to session 1

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• Jolly Jellybean Helpful Thought Hunt Digital Game: aligned to session 3

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• Butterfly Thought Changer: Changing Unhelpful Thoughts Digital Game aligned to session 4

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• Argh You Ready to Measure Challenges? Pirate Digital Game: aligned to session 5

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• Bella Bird's Equal Measurements Problem Solving Digital Game: aligned to session 6

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• And more resources will be added in the future!  Please note, the price will rise as new resources are added.

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Who Am I?

Have we met yet? I’m Casey, your Skills for Big Feelings author and illustrator. I’m also a Mom, a School Adjustment Counselor, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, an adjunct faculty member, and a Registered Nurse.

I want to be honest with you here. About eight years ago I found myself on the brink of burn-out. I never felt like I could catch up. I was constantly running around my school “putting out fires.” This reactive counseling style was not sustainable and it was fueled by a mistake I made early on in my career. When a child had a problem, I would swoop in and try to be the amazing counselor who was able to calm down and de-escalate the child. The issue was that I became their coping skill. This was problematic because it was not empowering to the child at all.

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Then I made a conscious change. I shifted my focus from a reactive style to a more preventative approach. This way I could help empower all children by teaching them these important social-emotional skills. In 2013 I began the early stages of developing Skills for Big Feelings as a way to offer preventative, tier-one mental health support for my students. And it was with that pivot in approach when I began to start loving my career again. I’ve refined this program over the years and it has since been used by myself, other counselors, and teachers in small groups, whole classrooms, and individual settings. I know this program helps kids and I am so thrilled to finally share it with you!

Is Skills for Big Feelings Right For You?

Here’s why you need to get started with Skills for Big Feelings today:

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You have the option to add on the BONUS bundle for a special limited-time only price.

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With the current state of the world, social-emotional learning is more important than ever before for our children.

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Research demonstrates that social-emotional learning has NUMEROUS benefits. Just check out these two meta-analyses from 2011 and 2017 to see what I mean!

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Help children learn these vital life-skills!

If you want to help children develop their emotional skills, save time, involve families, and spend more time doing the parts of your job that you love, then Skills for Big Feelings is the answer. This complete, comprehensive, all-in-one program provides you with all the essential skills and tools you need to improve the lives of children by empowering them to learn coping skills.

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