What I Tell Myself First

Zoe illustrated and designed this 32 page picture book. What I Tell Myself FIRST: Children's Real-World Affirmations of Self-Esteem, based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, is a book of real-world affirmations that highlight the various abilities and attributes of the reader while exposing readers to realistic possibilities of rejection of difference in various forms. What I Tell Myself FIRST then enables readers to form mental frameworks to surmount those forms of rejection of difference and achieve positive self-actualization.