Children's book for mental well-being & mental health: A book about fears, worries, sadness, and other unpleasant emotions. A child sets off to an island where there is something really special. But the journey is exhausting because little monsters want to stop the child from getting closer to the island. The child has to think about whether he is ready to take the monsters with him. Our monsters are those feelings that we do not like to feel and which we perceive as unpleasant and bad, such as fear or sadness. We want to shake off these feelings and be happy, but there is always good and evil in life. To have no more unpleasant feelings at all is simply not possible until we no longer live. My Monsters is a story for all children and all adults. Because we all have monsters that accompany us through life. The book is a metaphor, inspired by an imagination exercise from the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), packaged in a therapeutic picture story appropriate for children. The book:aims at children's well-being and mental health - based on best practices in therapeutic work addresses difficult and uncomfortable feelings as being an unavoidable part of life: a complex topic simplified into a sound story and made accessible to children as a picture book;serves as a conversation-starter for a variety of topics, such as fears, sadness, stress, grief, arguments, separation, bullying;is lovingly and wittily illustrated: you can even grow fond of your monsters;is also suitable for children, adolescents and also adults with psychological problems (such as generalized anxiety disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, adjustment disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder) About the author: Miriam Prätsch is an executive psychologist at the KJP Institute of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and a behavioural psychotherapist for children and young people, specializing in anxiety disorder and ADHD. She loves creative work with young patients and i