I Remember My Breath: Mindful Breathing for All My Feelings

Visualization and mindful breathing for kids helps children recognize and manage their feelings.

Young children have so many feelings. Without accessible emotional self-regulation strategies, children may communicate their big feelings with negative behaviors, bullying, or withdrawing. I Remember My Breath provides an introduction to visualization and mindful breathing for kids as an emotional self-regulation strategy.
 
Mindful breathing focuses on breathing and how emotions feel in the body. I Remember My Breath guides young children to identify the emotion they’re feeling and use visualization and breathing to calm themselves and manage their feelings. Teaching mindful breathing for kids as an emotional self-regulation strategy also helps children build emotional literacy and body awareness.
 
With its imaginative, vivid imagery and rhythmic writing style that mimics the breath, I Remember My Breath is a book that children who are experiencing big emotions can turn—and return—to for support and comfort. A special section for adults provides additional information and activities to reinforce the book’s message.

 

Lynn Rummel is a licensed speech-language pathologist and certified professional school counselor.

While working as an elementary school counselor for nine years, she taught mindfulness and breath awareness strategies to many of her students. Currently, Lynn operates a pediatric speech and language therapy private practice in South Florida, where she lives with her husband, two children, and pug. She specializes in articulation, literacy, and social and emotional skills.

Children’s picture books are among her favorite therapy materials for all ages.

Karen Bunting is an illustrator currently based in Bristol, UK.

She lives with her partner and two cheeky cats, she loves to travel, and she has also lived in Tokyo and Seville.

Karen enjoys expressing the quirky side of life in her illustrations, inspired by vintage children’s books.