🌿 Course Curriculum
For the best results, Nina’s Coping Toolbox is recommended twice a year in the fall and spring. This allows children to revisit lessons, strengthen coping strategies and self-regulation skills, and build lasting resilience over time.
Program Breakdown
Length: 10 weeks
Structure: 5 lessons per week, designed for 30 minutes a day, with flexibility to fit your schedule
Total lessons: 74+ guided learning moments
Each lesson includes:
🌬️ A Settle-In poem, calming stretches and mindful breathing, to help children get ready to learn
📖 Engaging storytelling from Nina’s diverse group of friends who make emotional learning fun and relatable
🎯 A coping tool and core SEL skill introduced through interactive activities
📝 Printable activities, joyful reflection moments, and short review quizzes that reinforce every skill
📚 Seven of our books included as easy-to-access PDFs so children can enjoy stories and coping tools right away to reinforce the skills taught
💛 Bonding moments that strengthen relationships between children and the caring adults who support them
🌿 Trauma-informed practices that help children feel emotionally safe, calm, and supported while learning
✅ Ready to click and teach with no preparation required for families or professionals
🎥 Videos guide the learning step by step so adults always feel supported
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Getting Started
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Week 1 – 💛 Introduction ~ Expectations ~ Nina’s Anxiety
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Week 1 Resources
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Week 2 – 🧘🏽♀️ Mindful Body Scanning
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Week 2 Resources
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Week 3 – 🌬️ Muna Teaches Nina Belly Breathing
💛 We are so glad you’re here!
Resilient Reads LLC 📚
Resilient Reads books support the emotional well-being of children, teens, and adults. Through stories that build confidence, strengthen relationships, and encourage healing conversations, readers learn to recognize feelings, express themselves, and grow through challenges together.
Every book includes social-emotional learning and coping strategies that can be used at home, in educational settings, and in therapeutic spaces while nurturing self-regulation and confident communication.
📚 Explore Our Books
Seven of our books are included in your course as easy-to-access PDFs, giving children stories and tools to enjoy right away:
- 💛 Nina’s Coping Toolbox – The Book That Started It All!
- 🌈 Michael’s Rainbow Adventures
- 🧘🏾♀️ Mindful Body Scanning
- 🌬️ Mindful Me: Yoga & Mindfulness Book for Children
- 💗 Happy Hearts & Grateful Minds
- 💕 Love for Me
- 🌿 Portia’s Healing Journey
To go even deeper, we also offer two special Activities Books that follow along with the lesson content and bring the skills to life through hands-on practice.
If you’d love the joy of holding a real book in your hands, explore our complete collection in print — available through special bundle pricing here on our site or as individual titles on Amazon.
Nina’s Coping Toolbox Series 💛
These four books introduce children to essential SEL skills and coping tools through stories, hands-on activities, and meaningful reflection. Each book builds confidence and emotional strength one step at a time.
- 💛 Nina’s Coping Toolbox began the journey, inspired by Portia’s daughter Nina and her transition to a new school in fourth grade.
- 🌟 The series adds calming strategies, positive habits, and nightly connection rituals that strengthen family bonds.
- 📘 These core books became the foundation of the full curriculum, supported by additional titles that expand coping tools and SEL skills.
Together, they create a complete program that fosters emotional intelligence and resilience.
🌿 Discovering Me A Guided Workbook for Healing
Discovering Me is a guided journal that helps teens and adults understand themselves more deeply, calm their minds, and grow with confidence. 🌿
- 🧘🏾♀️ Encourages mindful reflection and emotional awareness
- ✍🏽 Uses affirmations, expressive writing, and gratitude to build inner strength
- 💗 Promotes resilience, self-regulation, and a healthy sense of identity
- 🌟 Supports holistic well-being through calming and uplifting practices
A companion for teens, families, and anyone seeking calm, connection, and emotional growth.