Powerfully You: Learning to Notice Your Body Sensations

Help your child learn body sensing: a tool that empowers self-regulation. When children feel regulated they can better meet their own needs and match the expectations of the situation.

Research shows that increasing body awareness and self-regulatory capacities leads to improvements in emotional mastery in children and adults. This book introduces young children to mindful awareness of body sensations through a lens that encourages compassion and curiosity.

The authors, Amy and Heather are pediatric Occupational Therapists with over 40 years of combined experience in working with children and their families. They created Powerfully You: a social emotional learning program that focuses on self-regulation.

This book is designed to accompany the curriculum, but can also be used independently. Any child will benefit from this introduction to the concepts of body sensing and matching activation. Powerfully You: Learning to Notice Your Body Sensations can be used by parents, teachers, or therapists to help children begin learning about themselves, building mindful awareness, and managing their emotions.