How to Fill Your Hug Bank

What if your child had a simple, comforting way to understand big feelings?

How to Fill Your Hug Bank offers young readers exactly that.

A hug bank is a little jar inside your heart that holds love and comfort. You fill it up with all kinds of hugs-big hugs, silly hugs, gentle hugs, even no-touch hugs or long-distance hugs-from people you love.

When you feel sad, mad, or overwhelmed, you can take out a hug to help your body feel calm again. And when your hug bank is empty, you can fill it back up with a hug from a grown-up, friend, pet, or even yourself.

Perfect for bedtime, classrooms, and everyday emotional support, How to Fill Your Hug Bank teaches children that love is always within reach, even on hard days.

• How to fill their hug bank with love from family, friends, pets, and themselves
• Ways to use stored hugs to cope with big feelings like frustration, worry, or loneliness
• That love can be given, received, and shared in a variety of ways, even from far away

• Bedtime routines
• Social-emotional learning (SEL) at home or in the classroom
• Parents, teachers, therapists, and caregivers supporting sensitive or anxious children

• Teaches emotional regulation in a simple, memorable way
• Encourages empathy, connection, and self-soothing
• Supports children through big feelings
• Builds confidence and emotional vocabulary