Hello Flutters

August issue is out! Featuring Dr. Maria Grace Wolk and her new book Hello Flutters! Nevaeh Meets G.R.A.C.E Coming this October! Dr. MariaGraceWolk | Therapist| TEDx Speaker| Author Hello Flutters | Children’s Books About Big Feelings
Read our exclusive interview with her in our August edition. Available on website www.Kidliomag.com!

📚First tell us something about yourself.

I am a licensed psychotherapist, TEDx speaker, and mom. I specialize in fear, trauma, and
anxiety, and I work with adults, parents, and children who are carrying fear without always
knowing it. Sometimes it looks irritable. Sometimes it’s shutting down. Sometimes it’s just feeling
on edge and not knowing why. I created the G.R.A.C.E. Matrix®, a peer-reviewed clinical
framework that helps people move through fear by grounding, reflecting, aligning with their
values, creating small brave steps, and embodying what they learn. It was published in the
Pacific Journal of Health in 2024. My work is grounded in the belief that fear is not the enemy.
Misunderstanding it is. That belief lives at the center of everything I do, in my therapy practice,
in my personal life, and in every book I write.
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“Fear is not the enemy. Misunderstanding it is.
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📚Tell us something more about your book series.

Hello Flutters follows Tala and Nevaeh, two flying squirrels who are learning that the fluttery
feeling in their bellies is not something to fear. It’s something to understand. Book 1 introduces
Tala and helps children recognize fear as a body sensation, a signal worth paying attention to.
Book 2, Nevaeh Meets G.R.A.C.E., goes further. Nevaeh carries a real fear that starts with a
childhood memory of a forest fire. When her class plans a campfire talent show, that fear comes
flooding back. She wanders into the forest and meets five animal guides who each teach her
one step of the G.R.A.C.E. Matrix®. By the end, she teaches her best friend what she has
learned. The fear flutters do not disappear. They become wings.
Book 2 launches October 11, 2026. Book 1 is a Mom’s Choice Award winner and received a
5-star Readers’ Favorite review, available now.
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“The fear flutters do not disappear. They become wings”

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Featured Authors and Books:

Hello Flutters! Nevaeh Meets G.R.A.C.E
by Dr. Maria Grace Wolk Dr. MariaGraceWolk | Therapist| TEDx Speaker| Author

Wanda The Witch And The Broom That Went Zoom! by Dana Ginnett Tellwell Publishing

The Boy Who Could Smell Warming
Patrick Fleming Patrick Fleming

Little Monsters Read-Along Books
Linda Harkey
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Marshmallow and Muffin Lambs
Learn to Dress by Kerry Howard Kerry Howard

The Perfect Blend
Lisa M. Smith The Perfect Blend

Charlie, Bob And Me (Harry) Meet Puggles
by S.H. Chase Sue Chase

The Invisible Crowns
Ghada Kofa Ghada Kofa

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Children often think courage is the absence of fear, so they feel broken when their heart races. Tala shows them the truth. You can feel the fear and be brave in the very same moment. That’s the kind of brave worth teaching early.

Get Book 1 now on Amazon.

Your child is not being difficult. The fear underneath the behavior just needs a name before it needs a correction. Follow along if you are raising a child through big feelings.

If you read the first Hello Flutters book, you met Nevaeh.

She wasn't the easiest character to love. She was sharp with Tala. She pushed. She made things harder for everyone around her.

Here's what I've seen again and again in my work as a therapist. The child who acts the hardest is usually the one carrying the most fear. The talking back, the short fuse, the bullying, those aren't the problem. They're the armor.

Nevaeh has a story. This fall, she finally gets to tell it.

Naming what is happening inside a child tells them the feeling is not too big to be seen. The moment gets smaller once it has words. This is the language I want every child to have early.
Share this with a parent who needs it today.

I didn't learn to name my own fear until I was an adult. For years I read it as something wrong with me. I want the children in your life to skip that long detour. When a child can say I am scared and still take the next step, something shifts for the rest of their life.