a soft place to land
No matter what you have been through, you can still smile.
Coloring books and journals for the women in midlife, in hard seasons, and in the quiet work of coming home to themselves.
Coloring books and journals for the women in midlife, in hard seasons, and in the quiet work of coming home to themselves.
In my early thirties, a dog bite gave me Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. It went full body, the rare and brutal version. I spent years mostly bedbound. My husband Aaron washed my hair and carried the bills alone. My kids grew up faster than they should have.
I went looking online for other people who understood, and all I found was doom and gloom. So I built something else. A place that said the truer thing. That no matter what you have been through, you can still smile.
That place became The Unbroken Smile. The books came after. This is the second chapter, and I am choosing it on my own terms.
Read the whole storyThe mug, the lamp, the quiet. Twenty minutes that ask nothing of you except to be here.
Forgiving lines and gentle pages, designed for flare days, tender hands, and a nervous system that has had enough.
No solutionism. No fixing. Just honest words for midlife, long love, caregiving, and starting over gently.
Something to put in your hands at the end of a long day. A quiet corner of beauty that belongs to you.
Coloring books for chronic illness and quiet nervous-system resets. A journal for long love. More on the shelf, more on the way.
69 single-sided pages of awareness ribbon mandalas and gentle reminders. A mindful coloring book for chronic illness, pain, and emotional healing, and for the people who love and support them.
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Made by request from the fibromyalgia community. 93 hand-drawn pages with soft, forgiving lines designed for flare days, tender hands, and sensitized nervous systems.
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For couples standing at the empty-nest line, deciding whether to find each other again. 200+ prompts for partners 15, 20, 30 years in who could grow back toward each other instead of giving up.
View on AmazonI have learned to give myself grace through the hard days. These books are how I hand a little of that grace to you.
A coloring page from Color Your Awareness. Five reflection prompts for the questions you have been quietly carrying. Three affirmation cards to keep where you will see them.
It is small on purpose. A soft welcome, free, no funnel nonsense. Just one gentle thing to put in your hands today.
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Other women in the next chapter, telling each other the truth about it. Come sit down. The coffee is already on.
One a month. What I am building, what is working, what I am still figuring out. The real, alive version, no noise.
You can leave any time. No hard feelings, ever.
A list I keep adding to. Saying no without a reason. Going to bed at 9:30. Choosing soft over impressive. The list is not the point. The permission is.
Read the storyOn the afternoons that do not go well, I do not journal or meditate or try to figure it out. I open a coloring page. I pick one color. I let twenty minutes pass.
Read the storyYou do not run out of love in a long marriage. You run out of questions. Here is what I wish someone had told me in the long, quiet stretch.
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