A Child's Guide to Managing Emotional Electricity
Book 3 of 4 in the Nurtured by Nature series
A part storybook, part workbook for ages 7 to 12 about overwhelming feelings. Written with sensitive and neurodivergent kids in mind, it teaches distress tolerance and self-soothing.
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Big feelings are a natural part of growing up. Sometimes emotions feel big, fast and hard to manage, leading to meltdowns, tears, or moments when a child shuts down.
This interactive book helps children understand what is happening inside their body and brain when emotions feel overwhelming, using a gentle, easy-to-understand metaphor: emotional electricity. Rather than trying to make emotions go away, it teaches children how to slow down, self-soothe and feel safe while they feel them.
Written with sensitive and neurodivergent children in mind, the book invites parents and caregivers to learn alongside their child. By reading and practising together, adults can model calm, patience and compassion.
How to Power Down and Reset is a thoughtful and beautifully illustrated resource for children of different neurotypes, as well as the adults who support them.
Dr. Elizabeth Roberts, Ph.D.Child Psychologist and Owner of Village Psychology
Written with them in mind, for ages 7 to 12.
Designed to be read and practised together, so adults can model calm, patience and compassion.
Written by a child and adolescent psychologist to fill a need in her own practice.
Dr. Jamie Duggan is a child and adolescent psychologist in Montreal, Canada. She created the Nurtured by Nature series, part storybook and part workbook, to fill a need in her own practice.
A four-book series for children by child and adolescent psychologist Dr. Jamie Duggan, covering emotion regulation, perspective, neurodivergence and grief. Each book is part storybook, part workbook.
Book 1
Let's Go Surfing!
About emotion regulation
Book 2
A Superhero's Guide to Wise Mind and the Power of Perspective!
About perspective
Book 3
How to Power Down and Reset
About emotional electricity, for neurodivergent and highly sensitive kids You're here 
Book 4
The Forests of Feelings
About grief
How to Power Down and Reset is written for children ages 7 to 12.
It helps children understand what happens inside their body and brain when emotions feel overwhelming, using the metaphor of emotional electricity, and teaches them how to slow down, self-soothe and feel safe.
Yes. It was written with sensitive and neurodivergent children in mind, and it invites parents and caregivers to learn alongside their child.
Children learn distress tolerance, the skill of handling uncomfortable feelings without losing control. The book supports confidence, emotional regulation and resilience over time.
Both. Like every book in the Nurtured by Nature series, it is part storybook, part workbook.
It was written by Dr. Jamie Duggan, a child and adolescent psychologist, and illustrated by Albina Petrova. It was published by Garden Wolf Publishing House in 2026.
Yes. It is book 3 of the four-book Nurtured by Nature series by Dr. Jamie Duggan, which covers emotion regulation, perspective, neurodivergence and grief.
In Canada, How to Power Down and Reset is available from Amazon.ca (paperback). In the US, How to Power Down and Reset is available from Amazon.com (paperback). In store, it is on the shelf at Indigo Pointe-Claire.
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