Holding Herbert: Overcoming Anxiety and the Fear Response

Fear and anxiety are complex emotions. Children may find it difficult to articulate how they feel and why, particularly if the fear is post trauma or an ongoing anxiety that they don’t fully understand themselves.A Biblical approach to fear de-conditioning. Compassionate, understanding care for kids from Christian teacher, mom, and bestselling author mom Kimberly Rae.__________________________________________________HERBERT WAS AFRAID.The person who owned him before wasn’t nice to him, so he was always anxious and worried.I was patient and kind. It took time, but Herbert learned to trust me. He is happy now. He learned to replace bad memories and feelings with good ones.Mom says God loves me even more than I love Herbert. God wants me to live free of fear and anxiety even more than I want Herbert to live that way.Is it possible that the things I did to train Herbert to get better, I can do with myself? I want to try!Holding Herbert helps children recognize and understand the fear response and learn how to overcome it. Through the training of a little mouse, they learn how to renew their own minds and take control of their thoughts and feelings in ways that will help them all their lives.__________________________________________________Christian, positive, practical help and care for children with anxiety or post-trauma fear.So many children have been through trauma or abuse of some kind, or live with general anxiety in our high-stress world. Even if they are deeply loved and accepted, they made need more practical help to deal with past feelings, reoccurring fears, or associated triggers that bring up or heighten their pain.The body, in trying to protect from further danger, can see more and more things as dangerous, expanding the problem rather than helping it. Holding Herbert helps the child move in the healing direction rather than continuing to add to their fears.Holding Herbert can be used as a read-to book for preschool-age children, or a reader for elementary-age. Additional content that goes deeper into the medical and Biblical aspects is at the end for parents to better understand how to help the children they love, as well as for children to read as they age and have more questions.Scripture is used in the story as well as through the additional content, and the Gospel is given. Back content also includes large memory verse pages that can be cut out and put around the child’s room to remind him or her of the truths they have learned. Also included are two pages for the child to write in to personally apply the methods shared in the book.Holding Herbert is a book of help and hope, addressing a sad reality in a positive and non-threatening way.