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Listening to My Body: A guide to helping kids understand the connection between their sensations (what the heck are those?) and feelings so that they can get better at figuring out what they need. Paperback – July 23, 2017

by Gabi Garcia (Author), Ying Hui Tan (Illustrator)

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Big emotions can be overwhelming! Children need help to better understand and express what they feel.

Listening to My Body is an engaging and interactive book that guides children through the process of naming their emotions and the physical sensations accompanying them. Teaching kids to tune into their bodies and name their feelings is a foundation for emotional regulation.

From wiggly and squirmy to rested and still, Listening to My Body helps children develop a sensations vocabulary to help them express what they are experiencing. It includes kid-friendly "Let's Practice" activities throughout the book so children can practice what they're learning.

Listening to My Body is a wonderful social-emotional tool for parents, counselors, and teachers!

(Available in Spanish as Escuchando a Mi Cuerpo.)

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	I Can Do Hard Things: Mindful Affirmations for Kids	Listening with My Heart: A story of kindness and self-compassion	Find Your Calm: A Mindful Approach To Relieve Anxiety And Grow Your Bravery (...	Amaya's Anger: A Mindful Understanding of Strong Emotions (Growing Heart & Mi...	WE ARE ALL CONNECTED: CARING FOR EACH OTHER & THE EARTH

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	What kids tell themselves matters! It becomes their inner voice. It helps them connect with their power within. Help your child learn to tap into their inner strength and resilience when challenges arise.	Reminds us of the other golden rule-- to treat ourselves with the same understanding and compassion we give to others	A wonderfully accessible book that teaches children how to tap into their sense of safety when they experience anxiety so they can learn to find their calm	Understanding how anger works and learning coping skills empowers kids to manage it and other strong emotions.	A lyrical picture book that reminds kids to celebrate differences, stand up for each other, and work together to make the world a better place.

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Gabi Garcia is a mama, licensed professional counselor and picture book author. She spent the last 20 years working with children as a school counselor.
Gabi writes books that support parents, educators and caregivers in nurturing mindful, socially and emotionally aware children. She lives with her family in Austin, Texas.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Skinned Knee Publishing
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 23, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 34 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 099895800X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0998958002
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.68 ounces
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 3 - 8 years, from customers
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.08 x 8.5 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #4,018 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Gabi Garcia is a mama, licensed professional counselor, and picture book author. She spent over 20 years working with students K-12 as a teacher and later as a school counselor in the public schools.

Gabi is the author of I Can Do Hard Things, Listening to My Body, Listening with My Heart, Mateo Finds His Wow, Find Your Calm, and The Friend I Need.

She writes books that support parents and educators in nurturing mindful, socially, and emotionally aware children. All of her books are available in Spanish.

Visit gabigarciabooks.com to access downloadable resources to accompany all her books.

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Customers find this book effective for helping children understand their bodies and emotions, with well-written content that's easy to read and follow. The book focuses on sensations and feelings, including exercises for kids, and features great illustrations. Customers appreciate the cute cover and engaging story, though some find it disappointing.

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211 customers mention "Book for kids"204 positive7 negative

Customers find this book to be a magnificent resource for children, helping them understand their bodies and feelings through engaging activities and experiential pieces.

"Great book...." Read more

"...I was looking forward to story time tonight with what seems to be a great book...." Read more

"Love this book. As a therapist working with children of trauma I use this book all the time to help children connect to their bodies!..." Read more

"Good book but too long for a child with adhd to focus on." Read more

98 customers mention "Use"98 positive0 negative

Customers find the book helpful, particularly as a teaching tool for counselors and school psychologists, and appreciate its practical suggestions and conversation starters.

"Good for helping kids identify sensations and feelings and coping skills! I read this to my children and they enjoyed the practice" Read more

"...It wasn't the easiest book to read though. Overall, still useful and satisfactory." Read more

"Great book. Very insightful. I thought it was very helpful and informative for small kids as well as big kids. I would highly recommend it." Read more

"...It is a useful tool!" Read more

79 customers mention "Language"61 positive18 negative

Customers find the language of the book well-suited for children, being easy to read and follow.

"This book is well written and illustrated...." Read more

"...The illustration is very cute and well done. It is a paperback book. Pages feel like they are normal paper quality. Not super thin." Read more

"...The images are really nice - calming colors, but still very descriptive...." Read more

"...problem was one page was stuck to the other at the top, the words are still readable." Read more

55 customers mention "Sensations"55 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate how the book focuses on feelings and sensations, helping children explore and understand them better.

"...I highly recommend this book about feelings and sensations." Read more

"...It is written in a beautiful way that explains sensations and feelings in a kid friendly manner...." Read more

"...It offers clear examples of physical cues and emotions, which helps kids make the connection between what they feel and how they can respond...." Read more

"I really like how the reader can follow along and do things to practice noticing sensations in his or her own body...." Read more

46 customers mention "Illustrations quality"33 positive13 negative

Customers appreciate the illustrations in the book, which include exercises for kids and are kid-friendly, with one customer noting how they perfectly depict the story.

"I thought this was a great book with great illustrations. The author engages her audience with stories and activities to try...." Read more

"...My grandkids love it! I can't wait to read it in the classroom. Great illustrations, and it clearly explains the difference and connection between..." Read more

"Lovely book! I'm just not a big fan of the drawings, they aren't very clear and sometimes confused my child." Read more

"This book is well written and illustrated...." Read more

14 customers mention "Cute cover"14 positive0 negative

Customers find the book's cover cute, with one mentioning it serves as a nice springboard for the content.

"This book was purchased based on a recommendation from a therapist. Cute book and helpful to get kids to understand the emotional cues in their..." Read more

"...add a bit to my copy in order to make it complete but it's a very nice spring board." Read more

"...The cover is cute but the rest of the images are a little dull. Not what l expected for the price. Dissapointed." Read more

"...From children to adults, both are receptive to these beautiful pieces." Read more

12 customers mention "Story quality"9 positive3 negative

Customers enjoy the story of the book, with one customer particularly appreciating the puzzle story examples and another noting its effectiveness in teaching mindfulness.

"Great story to help kids understand their feelings by listening to the sensations in their body." Read more

"...I enjoyed the examples of the puzzle story and the overwhelmed story...." Read more

"...If l found this in a book store it would be a hard pass. The story itself is lacking and the kids weren't into it...." Read more

"...He was able to listen to the story, and engage with the silly parts, and interactive parts to get out of his meltdown, and into calming his body and..." Read more

12 customers mention "Pacing"2 positive10 negative

Customers find the pacing of the book unengaging.

"My copy is black and white and the pages are very thin. Very disappointing." Read more

"Sadly, this book is not very useful. It does not read aloud well or describe how many emotions might feel in the body...." Read more

"...The book is WAY too wordy and not at all engaging. Not something your kid will want to reread and reread AT ALL...." Read more

"...Some pages are cut off at the bottom too. Very disappointed and takes away from the actual written content. Misleading and disappointing." Read more

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Lorie West
Engaging Way to Teach Kids About Their Feelings and Bodies
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2025
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This is a great book for teaching Pre-K students and students with developmental delays how to listen to their bodies and begin learning self-regulation. The language is simple and accessible, making it easy for young children to understand. It offers clear examples of physical cues and emotions, which helps kids make the connection between what they feel and how they can respond. It’s a valuable tool for social-emotional learning in both general and special education settings. I highly recommend it for teachers, therapists, and parents!

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Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2025
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I read it last night to my kids, I thought the book was a great way for them to understand there body language and what there body needs ! The only problem was one page was stuck to the other at the top, the words are still readable.

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Teresa
Good for adults and kids!
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2023
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My therapist recommended this book for myself but to also read to my 3 year old. It's a little wordy for a 3 year old so I do skip some lines to keep his attention. During a tantrum it was a great resource to bring out and opened it up to the page about being upset and I do think it helped to show him what it looked like and to talk about how it feels. It taught my 3 year old more about his body and now he loves to point out to us every time he hears his heart. I love how it has you do examples like rubbing hands together for warmth or breathing techniques. I know it's helped me. My Dad read it to my kiddo and you remarked about what a good read it was so maybe he learned a thing or two!

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Lisa Benson
Excellent Book
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2024
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Will buy more from this author…. Bought it for my 4yr old grandson! Simple, practice exercises, covers alot!

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Great information for kids
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2025
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I really like how the reader can follow along and do things to practice noticing sensations in his or her own body. As an elementary school counselor, students are happy to follow along when I read it to a class. I have the physical book, too. But, the first two pages in the physical book are not included in the Kindle version. I miss those. Otherwise it seems to be a match and is a helpful resource to teach about body sensations.

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A tool for counselors to help kids under stress understand feelings, emotions
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2019
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This is a useful tool for counselors. It's appearance suggests it's a story and the pictures are kid-friendly, but it's not a story. It is packed with all sorts of ideas and reasons why kids may feel stressed, sad, angry, and/or a whole range of emotions, and kids will find it helpful. Counselors will likely pick the situations in it that apply to individual children with their unique situations, or review just a few pages at a time. The author, a Licensed Professional Counselor, suggests many ways kids can deal with their feelings and emotions. Some will work, some won't, but she gives plenty of choices. She also touches on ways to introduce mindfulness; again, counselors' preference on which parts of the book they want to focus on. This book will be useful for special needs kids and all kids dealing with any sort of stressful situation and daily situations we all encounter, such as, feeling hungry, cold, nervous, feelings, excited, happy, sad, etc. Kids on the autism spectrum are sometimes overwhelmed by a multitude of sensations and this may help them to separate them and deal with them.

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Great boook with wonderful simple activities kids can do
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2024
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Great book for supporting body awareness and connecting to our feelings and our sensory systems . Has great real life examples kids can try to help them understand concepts being taught .

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Jenn
Excellent way to teach kids about regulating their emotions through mindfulness!
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2019
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I absolutely love this book for teaching kids how to pay attention to their sensations and feelings and how those go together. There are little practices on just about each page so that kids can get into the experiential learning of this material. I've used this with kids from 3-12 in introducing them to the idea that they can regulate their emotions by paying attention to their bodies. My favorite part of this book is horse lips. It's a practice to help with anger and more than half of my kids will tell me that it's one of the things they remembered and practiced months later when our treatment is over. I work with kids with trauma and use this in the relaxation component of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I highly recommend this book to anyone working with kids in any capacity. All kids can benefit from learning mindfulness and understanding their sensations and feelings a little better.

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A good basic guide for children struggling with self control and emotions
Reviewed in Canada on July 20, 2022
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I bought a number of children's books to read with one of my grandchildren (age 6) who suffers with being overwhelmed, having hurt feelings, reluctant to try new things in case of failure (being judged) and becoming out of control at times (too much stimulation?). Most of the books were too didactic (think Berenstain Bears) for my liking. This was my favourite of the books--we read it in sections, not all at one time. It seems to be useful in helping them get in touch with what is going on inside and making sense of their experience. Will read more than one time to help apply principles.

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Margarete Sombini
Listening to my body
Reviewed in Brazil on February 24, 2019
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Anita
Poor Print and the page quality for the price paid
Reviewed in India on September 4, 2022
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You can find similar content and better quality print illustration on lower price.the pages are so thin can be easily torn ..I blindly purchase based on highest reviews.No option to return ,only exchange.

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Alejandra Padilla Pérez
I love it
Reviewed in Spain on June 22, 2019
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Help a lot for my five years old son

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Fab G
Great book about feelings
Reviewed in Australia on February 27, 2025
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Loved the message in this book. I was looking for books for my children to help them understand feelings of anxiety or anger. This helped us have some great conversations in our house and helped the children understand their feelings a bit better.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A good basic guide for children struggling with self control and emotions

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