A gentle rhyming picture book for ages 4 to 8 about childhood anxiety. A girl named Faith learns to name her worries, ask for help, and keep making brave choices.
Fearless Faith is coming in early 2027, in hardcover, paperback and ebook.
Faith used to love adventures. Then one day, without warning, the worries crept in. What if I get hurt? Will I be good enough? What will the other kids think?
When the things Faith used to love start feeling scary, she does the bravest thing: she asks for help. With her mom by her side, Faith learns she's dealing with anxiety, but it doesn't have to win, because she always has a choice.
When anxiety strikes children, it can be an overwhelming time for both child and parent. This book offers the beginning of hope and inspiration for children to face their anxieties and face the threat.
Steven Phillipson, Ph.D.Clinical Director and Founder, Center for Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy
A gentle way to open a conversation about worry with a young child.
A read-aloud about anxiety and brave choices for preschool to grade 3.
A starting point for talking about anxious thoughts and coping skills.
Jackie Gerbus was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder at a young age. Years later, as a mom of four, she watched anxiety show up in different ways in each of her children. She wrote Fearless Faith so other kids could start building coping skills earlier than she did.
Fearless Faith is a picture book for children ages 4 to 8, from preschool to grade 3.
Fearless Faith is a gentle rhyming picture book about childhood anxiety. When the things a girl named Faith used to love start feeling scary, she asks her mom for help and learns that anxiety does not have to win.
The story shows children how to name what they are feeling and talk about it with someone they trust, notice anxious thoughts, accept them and let them go, focus on the things they can control, and keep making brave choices even when the fears do not disappear.
It is a starting point for parents, teachers, school counsellors and therapists who want to open a conversation about worry with young children.
Fearless Faith is about anxiety and worry, and it does not name a diagnosis. OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) is closely related to anxiety: it was classified as an anxiety disorder for decades, and anxiety is often part of it, though since 2013 the diagnostic manual has listed it in its own category. Anxiety can show up in many different ways. The author, Jackie Gerbus, was diagnosed with OCD at a young age, and as a mom of four she has watched anxiety show up differently in each of her children. That is part of why she wrote the book.
Fearless Faith was written by Jackie Gerbus, a mom of four, and illustrated by Wina Witaria. It is published by Garden Wolf Publishing House.
Fearless Faith is coming in early 2027, in hardcover, paperback and ebook.
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