Chasing monsters: New book aims to help kids with anxiety - a podcast by RNZ

Author Mark Stevenson watched his daughter wrestle with anxiety from the tender age of three. He says what his daughter went through, and his own experience of feeling helpless as a parent, was the motivation behind writing Jessie and the Monster - A Battle with Anxiety, A Story of Courage and Hope. Pitched at young people, aged 8 to 15, it centres on a young girl who's previously safe and secure life is turned upside down by the invasion of a creature called Wisper. Mark says the book has been 20 years in the making, and was born out of his daughter Frankie's own struggles.

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