Thank you for joining us for episode 394 of Live Happy Now.

Navigating our emotions can be a challenge, and that's especially true for children.

But this week's guest has turned even our most complicated emotions into a magical adventure.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm joined by Nadine

Levitt, an author, educator, music artist, lawyer, and parent who wanted to change the way

children learn about their emotions. So she created Emotion Wonderland, a magical place where

all our emotions coexist, and we get to meet them,

befriend them, and better understand them.

This week, Nadine explains how she created the emotion wonderland,

what she hopes children and parents will get from it,

and talks about how approaching our emotions differently can change the way we process our feelings.

Let's have a listen.

Nadine, welcome to Live Happy Now.

Thank you so much for having me. It's awesome to be here. So thank you. You have done something so incredible with your creation of Emotion Wonderland. And so I guess can we start by talking a little bit

about your background and how that led you into the world

of emotional learning?

Because you have such an interesting background.

That's true.

First of all, thank you for saying that.

So my background, I'm in education.

I've been in education for about 10 years, but I definitely did not come through to education

and a very traditional trajectory. I wanted to be a

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