About Color Your Calm
Most of us were never taught how to build care into our lives, our work, or our communities. We were taught to power through. To be “professional.” To be fine.
This coloring book is for the moments when you want something true, but you cannot do another dense article or heavy book chapter. It turns care ethics into small, workable pieces you can hold in your hands.
Care is not a personality trait. Care is a design choice. Care is infrastructure.
This book helps you practice that idea gently, consistently, and without needing to be “on” the whole time.
Who is it for?
This book is for you if:
You care deeply and you’re tired of paying for it with your nervous system
You work in education, libraries, helping professions, or any care-adjacent role
You are neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, or simply overstimulated by the world
You want reflection that is structured, but not rigid
You like art as an entry point to thinking, not a performance
If you’ve ever thought “I know what matters, but I’m too exhausted to articulate it,” this is for you.
How to Use It
There is no right way to do this.
Color one page when you need to regulate.
Use prompts as journaling when you need clarity.
Skip around. Repeat pages. Tear one out and put it on your wall.
Do it alone, or do it with a group.
This is a tool, not a test.
Whats Inside?
Each spread includes:
A themed coloring page (designed for calm, not perfection)
A short concept in plain language (no jargon, no gatekeeping)
Reflection prompts you can answer in a sentence or a page
Tiny practices you can try immediately (at work, at home, in your own head)
Topics include:
Care as infrastructure (not performance)
Boundaries as design, not rejection
Universal design for real life
Dignity, friction, and hidden labor
Repair, accountability, and “good enough” care
Systems that fit humans (and what to do when they don’t)
Because sometimes thinking is easier when your hands are busy.
Because not everyone processes through long text.
Because care ethics belongs to exhausted people too.
Because accessibility is not an accommodation. It’s a baseline.
I made this format on purpose: to make theory more available to real humans with real lives.
