TAM's Journey: Helping Children Understand and Manage Their Emotions Through Storytelling – Amanda Peddle
The TAM’s Journey Book series introduces, through storytelling and endearing characters, how our nervous system creates the sensations we recognise as emotions and how this is the most NORMAL and one of the oldest bodily functions, now over stimulated and misinterpreted
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As we move into an Era of increased awareness of our Emotional wellbeing and the impact on ourselves and society as a whole, it becomes clear that more ways of encouraging children to manage their emotional state in an effective and understandable way is needed, introducing the Physiological process as part of a journey of discovery like TAM and his new friend Hetty.
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Teaching Children and Young People the ‘how and why’ of emotions can remove stigma and calm some of the worry around reactions. By sharing a learning experience like a story, they can develop their understanding of why we as a species respond to stimulus the way we do. This leads a greater self-awareness and in turn an opportunity to challenge some of those reactions.
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Amanda Peddle, the author and programme creator, has over 23 years in practitioner roles based in both Education, residential and therapeutic settings, she is currently advancing her studies with The Polyvagal Institute. Her passion is to make all children and young people able to understand and accept rather than be fearful of FEELING. Recommended by Dr Tina Rae, Educational and Clinical Child Psychologist, and children and families worldwide.
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‘I think there’s something really lovely genuinely lovely about having this central character, this sweet boy who goes through the whole journey of actually learning how to understand how his brain is connected to his body, the feelings that are generated in him, how he can work with those feelings and learn how to understand them more effectively, to be able to pre-empt them when he is faced with an emotional hijack or overwhelmed but also there is something very, very clever I think about making this very simple, straightforward, accessible, rather than something that sounds so scientific that it can be off putting to children and young people’ Dr Tina Rae’
