Kate Stark

Enjoy The Ride! Kate Stark

Take a ride with Fred the feelings chameleon to understand worry, mad, and sad feelings and to learn new coping skills to conquer big feelings. Enjoy the Ride! is a lighthearted and practical book for children and young adolescents that uses metaphors, real life examples, humor, and vibrant illustrations to engage the reader in developing insight into feelings and empowerment to use coping skills. Important concepts covered include how emotions help us, how emotions are experienced in our bodies, how emotions and thoughts are connected, thought reframing, and coping skills. The book is written to be enjoyed by children in their home, as a part of therapy, or at school. At the end of the book are worksheets for the reader to write or draw about their own feelings and to make their individualized coping skills plan. Illustrations are by Shawn Melchor, an experienced and talented concept artist with digital and traditional art expertise. Enjoy the Ride! is written by Kate Stark, PhD, a psychologist with years of experience working with children.