Lynn Smith

It's as much of a reminder for that person reading the book that sometimes you just need to put one foot in front of the other and that your fear is not something that's gonna disappear.

Courage is doing something in spite of fear and that brave isn't something that you inherently are.

It's something that you choose to do.

And that's the real...

point of this book that I hope resonates with whoever picks it up.

So mindfulness is so key to us as adults.

We know how our breathing impacts our nervous system, and we know visualization, which I use a lot in my coaching, picturing the audience, picturing the interactions that you're going to have, visualize the energy, those types of tools that I give my executives.

I thought, well, why aren't we learning this at such a young age?

And

The breathe in and breathe out at the very end of the book was a really special spread for me.

In addition to the point that you're talking about where the butterfly and mouse breathe in and out, at the very end, Moon is trying to soothe Mouse because his mind is racing.

And it came from the evenings in our house with two boys, as you can imagine, it's pretty chaotic.

They get the zoomies where they're running all around.

And I've got a very big feeling child.

So what we did every night was we did take a deep breath in,

And a deep breath out.

Take a deep breath in.

Take a deep breath out.

I mean, even just hearing that, you start to feel this calm.

And it's so essential, I think, that children learn not to bottle their emotions, but how to manage their emotions because they're going to be so all over the place.