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This Comic Book is intended for children from 5 to 95, but is designed especially for the ones between 5 and 10. The number one goal is to help them welcome their feelings instead of fighting them, rejecting them, or ignoring them. The story features a fairy and 4 children, each of them representing a different personality type. It will then be easy for the readers to identify with one of them. They will be introduced with new and handy tools to deal with emotions.Each chapter is dedicated to one of them. A fairy named Zelia will be guiding the children through these steps of learning. The new ways of dealing with feelings will bring lightness and wellbeing. To offer this Comic Book to a child is a wonderful gift. It will help him/her to better take his/her own place in life. And if you feel like doing a little more, I suggest that you read it with them, and then why not do the exercises together. You will find it a great way to create a joyful complicity with the children. It will also be the perfect time to show and explain, that grownups don't know everything, but keep learning throughout their life. I would like you to know that the behavior of the characters didn't come out of my imagination. Each situation is inspired by 20 years of real dialogues I had with children and adults in my psychologist practice. I wish you a lot of fun in your discoveries. Anne CALDERON

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"For my balance, I always had the need to develop my skills in several fields. Therefore I trained intensively as a psychologist as well as an artist (drama, music, art). I was convinced that someday I would be able to combine both to create something meaningful. During the 7 years I spent in California, I created several plays for and with children. I was pleasantly surprised to see how fast the participants would grow emotionally while being on stage and having to move with others toward the end result of a shared project. They began full of doubts about their performing abilities, and ended up with great pride. In the meantime I had discover and started training with amazing practical tools to help people live in harmony with themselves and others (Body Centered Therapy, Hendricks Institute). Back in Switzerland, I kept creating as an artist while starting to work with those new tools in my psychologist practice. My youngest ""impatients"" were only four or five, and if I wanted their attention, I had to introduce the exercises in an appealing way. I definitely think that learning is much easier when you make it fun. Little by little I imagined Comic Book characters that I would happily interpret for my young audience. Children would enter the game, understand and practice new ways of dealing with emotions. And that's how the idea of using these tools to create a Comic Book for children entered my mind. As I'm pretty bad at drawing, I procrastinated ... Until the day I decided it couldn't wait anymore. As I was more than ready, I found the right person very quickly: FANNY BOCQUET. She is very talented and able to translate in drawing all the emotions the characters go through. What a gift! The perfect creative complementarity! So, here you have the result of our collaboration. I'm hoping it will inspire you. That you will want to share it with all the children who could benefit from it's teachings. It will certainly help them keep their enthusiasm and spontaneity while staying in tune with what they feel. Anne Calderon"

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