Something funny happens when you roll this out on the kitchen table. The questions are already there, printed right in the border. You don't have to think of what to say. You just color.
Heartwood Haven is a 2-foot by 5-foot coloring sheet set in a forest full of rainbows, storms, sunshine, hot air balloons, and messages like "Storms Don't Last Forever," "Create Your Own Sunshine," and "Your Feelings Are Valid." The questions in the border treat feelings the same way the sheet treats weather: as something real that moves through, not something to fix or fight.
It's for the kid who's having a hard time and doesn't know how to say it. Or the kid who's been told to cheer up one too many times and just needs someone to sit with them in the rain for a minute.
Some of the questions in the border:
If your feelings were weather, what would the forecast be today? What's a feeling you sometimes need to just let be there without fighting it? Where is your favorite quiet spot to go when you need to recharge? If a friend tells you they're sad, what's something helpful to say instead of "don't be sad"?
No prep. No wrong answers. Just a big piece of paper and whatever comes up.
