Countdown to Calm: How to Help Yourself When You Feel Angry, Upset, or Afraid

by Jennifer Morrison, Leia McKinnis (Illustrator)

Everyone has moments when their strong emotions take over and make it hard to think clearly. Children of all ages can learn strategies to calm angry, upset, or scared feelings in any situation. Countdown to Calm teaches children the five senses mindfulness technique that focuses their attention on their environment and helps them learn to control those big feelings.It works for grown ups, too!

33 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 1, 2021

About the author

Jen Morrison had Reader’s Digest books about the Aztecs and the Incas at the same time she had Barbie dolls. She moved to England when her stepdad was stationed at an Air Force base there and spent all her time coaxing family members who could drive on the right to take her to Stonehenge and/or any castle in the country. During college summers, she demonstrated candle dipping to tourists in a long dress her mom made at a historical village in her hometown.

She attained her master’s degree in public history and continued her history obsession as a professional in a series of positions primarily in Michigan. She has worked in museums and historic sites, done freelance and volunteer work, written for local history publications and websites, organized workshops and conferences, and done a considerable amount of public speaking.

Morrison spent fifteen years in the local history department of the Grand Rapids Public Library. She then served as the Aquinas College archivist as well as the associate archivist for the Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Her book, Open Mausoleum Door, is available in store or online at Schuler Books (https://www.schulerbooks.com/chapbook...) as well as at Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Open-Mausoleum...) and online at Barnes and Noble.