Healthy Mom Healthy Me: Helping Kids When Mom's Sick

By Gwen Ratermann

Healthy Mom Healthy Me is an easy-to-use workbook to help children whose moms are experiencing a serious illness. Children will learn to:

Recognize and reflect on their feelings.

Express those feelings constructively.

Visualize a good outcome for their moms health.

Create a journal that can be a safe place to describe what is important to them.

Understand the value of being grateful every day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jan 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781452590349

Gwen Ratermann

Gwen Ratermann worked in health policy, was a speechwriter, and wrote for a small town newspaper. The techniques she describes in Healthy Mom Healthy Me helped her family while her husband fought cancer. Since then she has shared these tools with countless others. Gwen and her husband, Martin, live on the bluffs of the Missouri River. Visit her at gwenratermann.com

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ISBN: 978-1-4525-9033-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4525-9034-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014900547

Balboa Press rev. date: 01/15/2014

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Healthy Mom Healthy Me

Table of Contents

An Introduction for You and Your Mom

Healthy Mom

Healthy Mom pictures for you

Attitude of Gratitude

Making a gratitude list

A Book of Your Own

How to start making your own book

It’s Okay to Be Angry

It’s