Beaverton, Oregon mom and children’s psychologist team up to write book to help kids tackle social anxiety and fear

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Quoting beavertonvalleytimes.com:

Some kids beg not to go to school. Beaverton mom Marjie Braun Knudsen knows this struggle all too well. Of her four children, two have dealt with issues related to social anxiety. That’s why she partnered with Dr. Jenne R. Henderson, a children’s psychologist, to write the book, “BRAVE: Be Ready and Victory’s Easy.” The book follows a fictional fifth-grader named Danny as he deals with his own trials of social anxiety and models coping strategies to make life seem a lot less overwhelming. Knudsen says she decided to write the book—which came out last year—because when her daughter was struggling with similar issues, she didn’t find any resources that met her needs . . . After realizing that she wanted to write the book, Knudsen starting talking with Henderson, her children’s doctor, about co-authoring the story. They spent several months going through the draft, switching off writing duties almost sentence by sentence (luckily, they have similar writing voices). After the book was completed, they shopped it around to various publishers, who told them to change aspects of the completed book. The authors decided to go a different route. “We realized that if we wanted it to stay how we wanted it, we’d have to publish it ourselves,” Knudsen says.

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“BRAVE” is now available at:

Powell’s

Amazon

Barnes and Noble

& summertimepress.com

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