The Cat Is Back: This parent/teacher mental health anxiety tool, that helps to guide and educate your child to understand worries and develop confidence.
Sara J Stevens
(Independently published, April 29, 2020)
This book is the second in this Cat series and is perfect for helping parents and teachers educate children to understand how their mind works when they are suffering from anxiety, insecurities and worry habits. With the new skills in this book, children can start to understand on a deeper level, how to build inner confidence and self-esteem. There's no age limit to insecurities and anxiety, this being said young people can also find it much harder to understand the inner workings of their thoughts and emotions. This was why I started to adapt my work to truly allow children to understand how they are feeling and find ways for them to let go of anxiety and develop self-confidence. This interactive self-help book designed to explain, guide and teach 7 - 16 years old children and their parents how to change those worry habits. Since 1994 Sara has been an anxiety specialist working with children and adults on a one to one basis. With a degree and masters in the field, Sara is also an educational author and delivers CPD teacher trainer events using her books as teaching aids. You can go to www.sarastevens.co.uk where there are free teacher/parent training downloadable worksheets that you can access, to use alongside the book. Does your child worry a lot and looks for lots of reassurance from you? can your child get anxious, irritable, emotional, stomach upsets, angry or withdrawn? Maybe your child has issues concentrating, has lost interest in things they normally enjoy or is acting out in situations. All of these could be signs that your child is struggling with anxiety. Have you tried other worry books but still feel your child is still worrying unnecessarily and is struggling with confidence issues? If so then this book will educate and support your child in understand themselves on a deeper level and help them build that inner confidence and self-esteem. Inside the BookThe book has a clear, fun and reassuring analogy that enables you and your child to gain that deeper understand of how the mind forms worry habits and how to break them. The feeding the cat analogy will explain how worries turn to anxiety, plus there are some deeper concepts that are well explained to help your child understand the impact of how their behaviour, habits and patterns can be adding to their worry habits. There are also cognitive-behavioural techniques used in the treatment of generalised worries, anxiety, self-esteem and confidence building. Engaging, encouraging, and easy to follow, this book educates, motivates, and empowers children to work towards positive change. This book shows you and your child how to truly understand what will reduce the worries and anxiety habits, plus more importantly what your child could be doing to increase the anxieties. The book can help with panic attacks, phobias, social anxiety, school anxiety, generalised anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The book helps children to understand why they get anxious and how they can stop feeding their anxiety habits. It is also an ideal anxiety management resource for those working with young people, including mental health practitioners, social workers, teachers, hospital staff and youth workers. If you would like to read more about your mind and anxiety and find extra ways to support and help adults and children with anxiety you can head to my blog at www.hypnosara.blogThe first book Don’t Feed the Cat is available on Amazon and is a unique resource to help children and young people understand worry habits and anxiety finding ways to manage them. Also, the book allows the child to understand how they are feeling as well as enabling your child to feel they have the new knowledge and techniques to self-empower them to change. The book has educational metaphors that allow the parent/teacher to start important conversations with the child.These are The Cat Lives on and I Can’t See The Cat will be launching summer and winter 2020.