Feelings & Being You Stories
Naming big feelings, calming a racing body, and discovering the crown, the color, the quiet song that only they carry.
11 stories available
Bedtime Bravery
For little ones who need courage at night
When night falls and the bedroom light clicks off, everything looks different. But our hero discovers a secret weapon: the SILLY TRICK. Scary shadow on the wall? Give it polka-dot underpants! Creaky noise? That's just the house saying "excuse me!" With a little help from a loving caregiver and a LOT of giggles, our hero learns that the dark bedroom isn't scary — it's a SECRET ROOM full of gentle magic. And the sillier you make the scary things, the smaller they get.
The Quiet Song
For the gentle souls
In a world that rewards LOUD, our heroes discover a hidden garden that only appears when you're quiet. Whispers make flowers bloom. Stillness calls deer close. Silence makes the whole world glow. Quiet isn't weakness — it's a secret key.
The Feelings Rainbow
For understanding big emotions
When feelings feel like a jumbled mess, our heroes journey through a magical forest where each emotion has a name, a color, a creature, and a purpose. Every feeling is a messenger — and naming them is a superpower.
The Crown Inside
For discovering the royalty inside you
A mysterious crown appears in the meadow — glittering, golden, waiting. It's supposed to glow for a TRUE royal. Our hero puts it on and... nothing. They try everything: sitting perfectly still, waving like a robot, even attempting to kiss a frog (the frog is NOT impressed). But when they stop TRYING to be royal and just help a friend who's fallen, the crown BLAZES with light so bright it builds an entire CASTLE around them. Turns out, royalty was never about the crown — it was about the heart underneath it.
When I Grow Up (I Want to Be Me)
For kids who want to be everything
Everyone keeps asking: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Our hero doesn't KNOW. A magic door appears leading to the Future Fair — where you can try on ANY future! Astronaut! Chef! Doctor! Artist! Each one is exciting but doesn't feel quite RIGHT. When the hero tries to be ALL of them at once, the costume pile-up is so ridiculous the whole fair stops. But when everything falls off and the hero just stands there being THEMSELVES, the fair erupts — because the most interesting exhibit was them all along.
The Color Only You Can See
For discovering the shade only your heart can make
One morning, the world wakes up GRAY — every color gone. But our hero can see something nobody else can: a shimmer, a glow, a color that doesn't exist in any crayon box. When they chase it, color SPLASHES out of them everywhere they go — painting flowers, streaking across walls, pooling in puddles. Trying to catch it in a jar only makes a bigger (and funnier) mess. The truth? The color isn't something to catch. It's something they ARE. And by the end, the whole world is painted in a shade that belongs to only one person: them.
Two Homes, One Heart
For the brave hearts that love in two places
Some children have two homes. Two bedrooms. Two sets of morning sounds. And sometimes that feels like being torn in half. But inside every child is a heart-light so strong it fills ANY room, ANY house, ANY place they stand. This is the story of discovering that love doesn't divide when homes do -- it doubles. And the heart you carry between two doors is the same whole, wonderful, unstoppable heart in both.
The Keeper of Firsts
For the night before a brand-new school
The night before the first day at a brand-new school, our hero can't sleep — until a gentle glow appears in the garden. The Keeper of Firsts has arrived, with a lantern holding every first your child has ever conquered: first steps, first words, first time down the big slide. One by one, the glowing memories reveal a secret pattern — wobble, wibble, WOW — proof that your child has been brave before, every single time. And the last orb, the one holding tomorrow? Nobody can see inside a first. That's what makes it theirs to fill.
The Good Scary
For the ones brave enough to come close
Every kid on the street crosses the road to avoid the enormous decorations on our hero's porch. Our hero says goodnight to them by name. So when Halloween morning comes and the porch is EMPTY -- two bare hooks and a torn strand of web -- our hero follows a glowing glass eye down the lane and finds them sitting in the pumpkin field, finished. They think they scared a little one for real. Together they work out the three rules that separate a delicious scary from a real one, discover who actually did it, and fix it -- and by the end of the night the biggest, most frightening thing on the whole street is standing on our hero's porch, facing out into the dark, on purpose.
The Bell and the Bellows
For learning what a deep breath actually does
When the storm takes over — hot cheeks, drum-loud heart, hands in fists — our hero shrinks down and travels INSIDE their own body to find out who is doing all this. Deep in the Old Country, where nobody speaks in words, they meet the loyal Watchman ringing his alarm bell, the Drummer following orders, the fogged-in Captain — and discover the one rope in the whole place that answers to THEM. A Magic School Bus-style voyage that shows a child exactly why a slow breath works, so they can believe it enough to use it.
What the Rabbit Knows
For putting the running back
After a wound-up day of holding it all in, our hero is buzzing — wiggly at dinner, slamming doors, and every "calm down!" makes it worse. Then, in the backyard, they watch a rabbit escape the neighbor's dog, stop, shake nose to tail... and hop away light as a dandelion puff. "Why did you shake?" — "To put the running back." The animals of the yard teach the secret every creature knows and people forgot: a big day fills your legs with running, and the running must be spent, not swallowed.
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