Finding My Calm: A Story about Mindfulness

From the award-winning creators of How Do I Feel? comes an expertly crafted book about building the confidence to overcome stressful moments through a fun, memorable rhyme!

Finding My Calm highlights the importance of mindfulness and self-regulating one's emotions. The gentle narrative and accessible rhyme offers kids a meaningful way to explore mindfulness practices while strengthening their social-emotional learning (SEL).

UNPACKING FEELINGS: Educators, therapists and guardians looking for practical tools to discuss methods of emotional regulation can use Finding My Calm as a springboard for meaningful conversations.

REVIEWED BY MENTAL HEALTH EXPERTS: All Wildling Books are reviewed by both mental health and parenting professionals, and are bolstered with relevant parent/teacher notes, useful exercises and more.

TRUSTED CREATORS: Wildling Books are an award-winning and bestselling creative powerhouse whose books have been recognised in the Storylines Children's Literature Trust of NZ Book Awards and the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.

'Finding My Calm is a must-have resource to top up your wellbeing toolkit. Empowering parents and teaching children ways to cope with their big feelings, this is a gorgeous book with a powerful and grounding message for our wee ones. As a mental health advocate and mama, one of my aims is to help children to identify emotions and learn ways to manage them; this book does just that.' -- REBEKAH BALLAGH, Counsellor and Author-Illustrator (Journey to Wellness)

Perfect for:

• Parents and guardians looking for social-emotional learning (SEL) resources and books to spark conversations around emotions with kids
• Teachers, educators, librarians and caregivers
• Kids looking for books about healthy emotional regulation
• Fans of Aroha's Way and Aroha's Choice and Let it Flow

Author: Rebekah Lipp
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Published: 03/03/2026
Pages: 48
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.60h x 10.30w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781761214738
Audience: Ages 4-8

About the Author

Rebekah Lipp is an author, entrepreneur and mental health advocate residing in New Zealand. She co-wrote Finding Gratitude (Quarto, 2019). Her personal journey with anxiety, depression and borderline personality disorder inspired Wildling Books, alongside a passion to bring awareness to children's mental health, emotional well-being and anxiety. After experiencing two years of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) following a period of crisis in her early twenties, she felt there was a real gap in what professionals knew and what parents and teachers needed to know regarding emotional regulation. She believes that we can empower children with skills, help children connect with their emotions, and teach them ways to regulate them.

With a gentle parenting approach, Rebekah feels that all children have genius within them and if we act out of a place of compassion, kindness and love, we will see our children thrive.

Craig Phillips is an award-winning illustrator whose art has appeared in published works, anthologies and exhibitions across the world. He worked on Neil Gaiman's American Gods and his first solo work, Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts won the New Zealand Book Award's Russell Clark Award for Illustration, an Australian Gold Ledger, a CBCA Notable and was a finalist in the Aurealis Awards. Craig lives and works in New Zealand.