Heart Bubbles: Exploring compassion with kids
Using a simple metaphor to teach important truths to kids
"Using the simple metaphor of bubbles, Heather Krantz shows kids simple and powerful ways to regulate their emotions. Mind bubbles are our thoughts and feelings and heart bubbles are our love and compassion. Learning to recognize and accept our mind bubbles, and remembering to keep a few heart bubbles for ourselves, are key skills for developing minds. I wish I had them when I grew up!"
Christopher Germer, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist and lecturer (part-time) at Harvard Medical School
Co-developer of the Mindful Self-Compassion program
Author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion
"Using the simple metaphor of bubbles, Heather Krantz shows kids simple and powerful ways to regulate their emotions. Mind bubbles are our thoughts and feelings and heart bubbles are our love and compassion. Learning to recognize and accept our mind bubbles, and remembering to keep a few heart bubbles for ourselves, are key skills for developing minds. I wish I had them when I grew up!"
Christopher Germer, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist and lecturer (part-time) at Harvard Medical School
Co-developer of the Mindful Self-Compassion program
Author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion
Cultivate the seeds of compassion
Heart Bubbles is a delightful and inviting approach to support children in the cultivation of compassion, for others and for themselves. Few personal qualities have more positive health and life implications and protective power than the simple act of being kind when hardship arises. Heather Krantz has found a way to cultivate the seeds of compassion that we all are born with through an engaging story with warm caring characters who embody the qualities of warmth, patience, caring and compassion. Beyond being a "feel good" book, Dr. Krantz illustrates how compassion is especially important when we struggle, fall short, fail or experience difficult emotions, and how we share these misfortunes with every other imperfect being on the planet . . . which means all of us!
Steven Hickman, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Executive Director, Center for Mindful Self-Compassion
Founding Director, UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness
Heart Bubbles is a delightful and inviting approach to support children in the cultivation of compassion, for others and for themselves. Few personal qualities have more positive health and life implications and protective power than the simple act of being kind when hardship arises. Heather Krantz has found a way to cultivate the seeds of compassion that we all are born with through an engaging story with warm caring characters who embody the qualities of warmth, patience, caring and compassion. Beyond being a "feel good" book, Dr. Krantz illustrates how compassion is especially important when we struggle, fall short, fail or experience difficult emotions, and how we share these misfortunes with every other imperfect being on the planet . . . which means all of us!
Steven Hickman, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Executive Director, Center for Mindful Self-Compassion
Founding Director, UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness
