Short, gentle pages about difficult feelings
A clearing in the forest
Sometimes a feeling is so big it is hard to see past it, like being lost among trees. These pages are small clearings: quiet places to stop, look around, and understand what is happening inside you.
Start anywhere. Go at your own pace. Nothing here asks anything of you.
When a feeling takes over
For the moments when fear, anger or hurt arrive faster than you can think.
Fear and anger
The Fear Came Second
A frightening thought is often a story your mind tells about a feeling already in your body. Most of the time that feeling is anger. Six short stops and three tools help you learn its name.
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Rejection · for adults with ADHD
The Rejection Alarm
A late text. A small frown. “This needs work.” For some people it lands like a punch. Find out why, and what actually helps.
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Also in The Rejection Alarm: play the practice games · open your toolkit · see the research
Making sense of the past
Some hurts began long ago. Understanding them, and the parts of you that grew up around them, can make them lighter to carry.
Childhood trauma
Two Languages
A child speaks one language. A harmful adult speaks another. A careful look at what happens to children when adults hurt them, in short pieces, with a calm space whenever you need it.
Before you open it: this page names abuse and neglect, but describes no acts. It takes about fifteen minutes.
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Internal Family Systems · for teens
Many Parts, One Self
Part of you wants one thing, part of you wants another. Meet your inner protectors, the hurt parts they guard, and the calm Self underneath them all.
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Gentle pages and thinking tools
Gentle stories for any age, games for children, and a workbook for getting unstuck.
Gratitude · for all ages
The Warm Little Light
What gratitude feels like, told gently, and why real kindness never comes with a bill.
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Problem solving
Inversion Koan Workbook
Don't ask how to succeed. Ask how to fail for certain, then stop doing that. Five steps turn a problem into a plan.
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Feelings · for ages 8 to 12
Meet Your Inner Team
A worried clipboard, a speedy firefighter, a shy little pebble and a calm Captain. Funny cartoons, games and a breathing activity about all the parts inside you.
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Thinking about thinking · ages 10, 12 and 16
The Two Logics
Ignacio Matte Blanco’s big idea: your mind runs on a tidy logic and a dream logic, all mixed together. Explained with toy cars, arrows that flip and an onion.
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Stories and traditions
How people across centuries have explained the things that unsettle us at night.