Heart’s Glade: A Journey Through Understanding Your Feelings
By Kelsea Jones
Understanding Your Feelings is a helpful resource for Christian families in navigating the issue of worry and anxiety with children. As children accompany Froggy on a journey through Heart’s Glade, they’ll gain understanding about their own feelings and discover helpful habits to overcome them. Parents will appreciate the gentle and Bible-based guidance, and kids will love the beautifully illustrated examples that will stick with them through their own journey.
"God made us with a lot of different feelings! Some are happy, and others are not-so-happy."
Reading Kelsea’s book was a joy and experiencing the artwork was inspiring! Through the voice of a young frog she skillfully acknowledges that worry does come AND speaks to the role of Biblical answers IN our worries to calm them. An amazing resource for Christian children and families that is both theologically and clinically sound.
This book is amazing! The illustrations are so beautiful and it is such a great way to teach children to understand their feelings and how we can take our thoughts and feelings of worry and anxiety to God. It is written in such a great way for kids to understand!
We took two days to go through it because the kids really liked drawing froggy and… Read More
As parents of a daughter that has ADHD and severe anxiety, we have found Heart’s Glade: A Journey Through Understanding Your Feelings to not only be easy to read for a child, but also as a tool to be read over and over without getting old.
The tools that Kelsea provided are not only for kids, but can be used by adults as well. Our daughter… Read More
My boys and I had a chance to read Hearts Glade, together. This book does a wonderful job opening the doors for communication on feelings and how to deal with them!
There are not many books that are geared towards children, that take a Christian approach to dealing with some of the tough emotions children can face… Read More
I recently had the good fortune to read Heart’s Glade: A Journey Through Understanding Your Feelings to my two girls, aged 9 and 11. Both of them have varying degrees of anxiety along with the normal stresses of growing up. From their first glimpse of the friendly protagonist “Froggy,” they were captivated!
Because the book is… Read More
As we read, A Journey Through Understanding Your Feelings, my daughter and I were taken on a journey with a character named Froggy. Froggy right away showed kindness and put us at ease. He explained words and let us know what we would need for this journey. Equipped and prepared, we continued reading.
This book was very enlightening to me as a mother… Read More
Kelsea Jones does an incredible job In Understanding your feelings. She calls on her personal experience in dealing with feelings, and gives great guidance.
From a decidedly Christian perspective, Kelsea not only gives a plan to deal with feelings, she also gives a model prayer to pray. I am thankful for the wisdom in this book… Read More
Heart’s Glade: A Journey Through Understanding your Feelings is such a valuable tool and resource for parents, teachers and children.
This book allows children to feel comfortable expressing and coping with their feelings in a simple but effective way with its step by step approach… Read More
We love Heart’s Glade: A Journey Through Understanding Your Feelings! In our scenario we didn’t have paper and pen available to make it a hands on activity, but it is set up in a way that we were able to talk through it together, and it was just as effective!
It helped my son to calm down with… Read More
A Journey Through Understanding Your Feelings is a great resource for every parent, teacher, children’s ministry worker, or anyone who has the privilege of influencing the life of children. Every child experiences Big Emotions that are hard for them to process and express in a healthy manner… Read More
What Kids are Saying about the book...
I love this book so much! It is so colorful with pretty pictures and is kid friendly. It really helps me express my feelings, and I think it will help explain other kids’ feelings too.
I really liked the frog! He was cute. And I really liked the part about how our brains need to recharge.
I learned that it’s ok to talk about your feelings and that God is with you.
I liked the drawing of the frog. I learned about feelings. I learned about feelings when my sister hurts my feelings I tell my mom and dad. I learned that God protects us.
It was good. I liked the pictures and the Bible verses. I learned that God can help us through anything.
“Ari had been feeling worried/anxious about COVID, and she said that this book really helped her.” – Ari’s Mom
I liked everything. I liked the frog Froggy. I learned about God’s promises.
"We're all travelers, and we are each taking our own journey like this one. "
About The Author and Artist
Kelsea Jones
Kelsea is an accomplished artist, author, and speaker with a heart for little ones. She is a leader of Children’s Ministry at The Pentecostals in Kentwood, Michigan teaching and developing curriculum, and designing sets and teaching aids. Her personal experience overcoming anxiety has given her a platform to encourage thousands through spoken word and writing, and she’s excited to help countless children find their own freedom and understanding through her creative talent.
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