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“My Monster” is published!

Hi everyone,
I am very excited to announce the launch of my first Children’s Book, ‘My Monster’. 📖📚
My Monster was born in the middle of the night in 2018. As I lay awake, I wondered how to support my younger clients, who quite often were anxious about coming in to see me. Counselling can be a very daunting thing and difficult to understand. Most people rely on images from movies, TV and media as a guide, but if truth be told, it’s not like this at all. I never considered publishing the story until we experienced COVID and I witnessed the increased concerns over children’s mental wellbeing in this time, this urged me to revisit the story.
The aim of this book is to show that no matter what your monster is: be it anxiety, bullying, abuse, bereavement, etc., and no matter what age you are, we all have the ability to take the power back through therapeutic support. Of course, no monster completely disappears. It stays with us and we learn from it.
This book is designed to assist everyone to become more aware of their own monsters. We know they exist, but they don’t have to be in control. Through openness, support and care for ourselves, we can hold our monsters in our hands, rather than them overshadowing us.
I truly hope that children find this book to be helpful in becoming more aware of their monsters and in control of them. Likewise I hope that for parents / guardians and those who work with children it will help with initiating the conversation with your children around their hidden monsters and bringing them to the surface to deal with safely.
Finally I would like to thank everyone who supported me on making this project a reality. I would like to say a huge thank you to Jake Biggin, who’s illustrations brought the story to life, the proof readers and those who provided testimonials of support.
A percentage of the sales will go to S.M.I.L.E Counselling to support expanding their growing counselling service for children and young people.
If you would like to purchase a copy please follow the link and thank you in advance for all your support 🙂
Featured in the Daily Record here.