Little Brave Hearts: Healing Series (A–Z) Title Summaries

Each title in the Healing Series teaches emotional skills, regulation techniques and resilience which are essential for lifelong emotional well-being. These are the habits, insights, and self-awareness skills many adults in therapy wish they had been taught as children. Designed for readers ages 5–10, each story invites the child into self-awareness, co-regulation, reflection, and practice, with gentle language and character-led guidance.

A – Awareness: Seeing What’s Inside Me
Skill: Naming our internal experiences so we can understand, share, and respond to them.
Why it matters: Awareness is the first step to emotional intelligence. When children can notice what they feel, they begin building empathy, regulation, and voice.

B – Boundaries: Keeping Me Safe and Strong
Skill: Recognizing what belongs to us—and what doesn’t.
Why it matters: Healthy boundaries teach children to protect their bodies, emotions, and time with confidence and care.

C – Core Worth: I Am Enough Already
Skill: Rooting our identity in intrinsic value, not performance or praise.
Why it matters: Self-worth is a child’s emotional anchor. It protects against bullying, shame, and self-erasure.

D – Discernment: Truth, Feelings, and What’s Real
Skill: Learning to separate facts from fears and truths from assumptions.
Why it matters: Discernment helps kids trust their intuition, notice manipulation, and grow wise without growing cynical.

E – Empathy: Feeling With, Not For
Skill: Understanding others without absorbing their pain.
Why it matters: Empathy builds emotional literacy, relational resilience, and compassion with healthy boundaries.

F – Feelings That Lied: Letting Go of What’s Not True
Skill: Identifying harmful beliefs and emotional distortions.
Why it matters: Some feelings sound true but aren’t. This book helps children release internalized shame and false narratives.

G – Grounding: Coming Back to My Body
Skill: Using the senses to return to safety in the present.
Why it matters: Grounding helps children manage stress, anxiety, and shutdown using simple, body-based tools.

H – Help & Support: Knowing Who Has My Back
Skill: Identifying safe adults and asking for help.
Why it matters: Help-seeking is a protective skill. It teaches children that needing others is not weakness—it’s wisdom.

I – Identity: Discovering Who I Really Am
Skill: Embracing our true self beyond roles, labels, or expectations.
Why it matters: When children are affirmed in their identity, they grow with clarity, confidence, and pride.

J – Judging Myself Gently: How I Look at Myself
Skill: Reframing self-talk with kindness and curiosity.
Why it matters: Inner criticism can start early. Gentle self-reflection nurtures resilience and self-acceptance.

K – Keeping My Calm: Regulating Without Shutting Down
Skill: Staying present when emotions are big.
Why it matters: This book teaches kids to respond—not react—through grounding, breath, and noticing.

L – Listening In: What My Body and Mind Tell Me
Skill: Noticing body signals, thoughts, and inner cues.
Why it matters: Inner listening helps children recognize needs, patterns, and safety signals.

M – Meaning-Making: What My Story Means to Me
Skill: Making sense of difficult experiences.
Why it matters: This book supports narrative healing—helping kids shift from “what happened to me” to “what I’m learning about myself.”

N – Needs: It’s Okay to Have Them
Skill: Identifying and expressing emotional, physical, and relational needs.
Why it matters: Needs aren’t selfish—they’re human. This story models how to name and advocate for them.

O – Ownership: My Choices, My Power
Skill: Taking responsibility without shame or blame.
Why it matters: Ownership builds integrity and helps children repair relationships while honoring themselves.

P – Protection: Creating Emotional and Physical Safety
Skill: Setting boundaries and identifying safe environments.
Why it matters: Protection is more than physical—it’s emotional. This story empowers kids to create and communicate safety.

Q – Quiet Strength: Power Without Noise
Skill: Understanding our inner strength doesn’t need to be loud.
Why it matters: Children who feel invisible or overwhelmed learn that calmness can still be powerful.

R – Resilience: Getting Back Up, Growing Through
Skill: Recovering after hard things and learning from them.
Why it matters: Resilience turns pain into growth. This book shows children that struggle doesn’t mean stuck.

S – Self-Trust: Listening to My Inner Yes and No
Skill: Honoring intuition, signals, and internal boundaries.
Why it matters: Self-trust is core to consent, confidence, and decision-making.

T – Transformation: I Can Change and Still Be Me
Skill: Embracing change without losing identity.
Why it matters: This story teaches children that growth, even when hard, is part of who they are becoming.

U – Understanding: Making Sense of Big Feelings
Skill: Exploring the roots and purpose of emotions.
Why it matters: Understanding brings emotional literacy and reduces fear around big internal experiences.

V – Validation: My Feelings Are Real, and They Matter
Skill: Seeing and affirming emotional experiences.
Why it matters: Validation tells children: “You make sense.” It’s the foundation of emotional safety.

W – Worthiness: I Deserve Love, No Matter What
Skill: Knowing that love doesn’t have to be earned.
Why it matters: Worthiness builds the foundation for self-respect and secure attachment.

X – eXchange: Finding Connection in Giving and Receiving
Skill: Practicing reciprocity and shared empathy.
Why it matters: Exchange teaches children how connection flows both ways—how to offer, receive, and hold space.

Y – You Are Not Alone: I’m With You, We Belong
Skill: Feeling a connection even in isolation.
Why it matters: Belonging soothes shame. This book reminds children that they don’t have to carry things by themselves.

Z – Zen Den: Finding My Inner Stillness
Skill: Accessing peace and regulation from within.
Why it matters: Stillness is a skill, not just a state. This story helps kids create calm even in chaos.