I Hold You In My Heart: A Children's Book & Parent Guide to Helping Children Cope with Loss with Larissa Nickson

After todays episode, head on over to @therapybookspodcast to learn about our latest giveaway. *Information shared in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. In this weeks episode, Jessica Fowler speaks with Larissa Nickson, LCSW, PMH-C, RYT 200 about her book I Hold You In My Heart: A Children's Book & Parent Guide to Helping Children Cope with Loss.  In this book, the characters explore and navigate difficult emotions like grief, sadness and anger and along the way learn different coping strategies.  Highlights from the episode: 3:46 Larissa shares how the book is for children and parents to explore loss and shares some examples of the coping skills that are taught in the book. 4:59 Larissa shares a little about her story of grief and what inspired the book. 6:25 Larissa shares how she choose to use the word loss, so this book can be used in a way that it can be about losing anything. 8:37 Larissa shares who the book is for. About the author: Larissa Nickson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years of experience helping children and adults. She is certified to work with women in the perinatal period and specializes in working with people who experience pregnancy loss and birth trauma. In memory of her daughter, she was inspired to write a children’s book about loss to help families learn about ways to cope with grief.