My family is thoroughly enjoying this Mindfulness book series! Mindfulness and My Body is a fantastic book for helping young kids to understand mindfulness and connect it to their experience in their bodies. The illustrations are colorful and diverse, the text is accessible and the perfect amount for early elementary age kids, and the activities are delightful. I highly recommend this series for parents, teachers, and other caregivers who want to encourage mindfulness in their children and families.

Thank you to Mayo Clinic Press Kids for gifting my family with an ARC to review! All opinions are my own.

I really enjoyed this book. It was different than anything else I've read recently. I couldn't put it down! I will keep an eye out for this author's future work!

Mindfulness and My Body is an intriguing book as although it has a very adult title, it is aimed at a wide age range of younger readers and while it is a sobering thought, children of all ages experience distress, anxiety and worry.
As their years are young, they usually do not have the skills to cope with challenging emotions and when a book such as Mindfulness and My Body is created, it is boon for anyone with children, teachers of young children and even, though it is out of the defined age range of six to eight years oldreaders, young tween-agers
A series of simple exercises involving learning to listen to their bodies, recognise when something feels wrong and how to use Mindfulness techniques to learn to pause, to take time out to look at what is going on, can help them learn to embrace that moment.
Each section has an activity and exercise to help further the understanding in a tactile manner, as in in the first section, ‘What is Mindfulness’ which has ‘making a pinwheel’ which helps to help illustrate the breathing technique and how breath affects what you body can do. Complimentary exercises have also been included at the end of the section.
Simple descriptions such as ‘butterflies in your tummy’, making a tiger pose or maybe an elephant pose in yoga based exercises encourage feeling how the body moves, and when the senses are involved a treasure hunt for things that smell can help connect to the present, leaving the past behind and the future where it should be, not yet here.
Over the course of the book, the five sense are presented with bright colourful scenes and characters, with the final section discussing how you can set up your day from the minute you get out of bed. Mindful Check-in details are provided.
An excellent traffic light system allows children to self-manage their emotions as they flow throughout the day with a great craft activity to be used as a reminder every day.
Part of the Mindful Spaces series from the Mayo Clinic, Mindfulness and My Body should be considered as an essential tool kit, or emotional first aid kit, for anyone with young children growing up in today’s world.

Mindfulness and My Body was great! I think kids and adults alike would benefit from it. I liked the well-known techniques like body scan and 5-4-3-2-1. I liked the different craft activities and the illustrations were perfect!

I absolutely loved this book. It’s absolutely perfect for kids but also incredibly enjoyable for an adult such as myself.

My favourite quote is the below; “Remember, you are learning a new skill and you can always try again another day.”

The illustrations along with the activities are equally intriguing. No doubt this book has the potential to help whoever’s hands it lands in.

Mindfulness and My Body packs a whole lot of helpful information in it’s few pages. It explains how our body’s senses can be employed to create mindfulness about the world around us. Text and illustrations compliment each other with fun activities presented throughout. The author even included a table of contents and an index which pleases this retired librarian.