Calm is a skill. We help women and girls learn it.
Calm & Centered is a program of It Starts With Us Foundation, International, a California nonprofit public charity (EIN 93-4736970). Through coloring, guided journaling, and community programs, we help women and girls from age 7 to 100 build lifelong tools for calm, resilience, and connection. Your gift helps bring these tools to schools, families, and communities.
Helpful Tools at Your Fingertips
Paper Back Release and Renew: The Power of Forgiveness is a sacred guide for anyone ready to stop carrying what was never meant to be permanent. Drawing from her work as a jewelry artisan, author and healer guides readers through the Write, Rip, Release, and Burn ritual — a four-step process that transforms grief, resentment, and old pain into clarity, lightness, and renewed purpose. Just as raw silver must be heated, hammered, and polished to reveal its true luster, our spirits require the same intentional refinement. This is not a book about forgetting. It is about reclaiming the gold of your own energy from the rubble of the past — and stepping forward as the master artisan of your own life.
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The Calm & Centered Coloring & Journal Book Our flagship resource: a 40-page softcover coloring and journal book designed around nervous system regulation. Each page pairs a calming illustration with a guided journal prompt, giving readers a simple, screen-free way to self-soothe, process emotion, and build a regular calming practice.
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Printable Calm Tools
A free gift to help you come back to center. The Calm in 5 Starter Kit includes a simple 5-minute reset you can use anywhere, 2 calming coloring pages with reflection prompts, and 2 printable breathwork cards (Box Breathing and 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding). Add it to your cart and check out at $0. Your download link arrives by email. Instant digital download (PDF, US Letter). No physical item will be shipped.
Your nervous system is always talking to you. This 30-day printable journal helps you learn your own stress signals and answer them with care, in about ten minutes a day. Each daily page includes a state check-in, a 1-10 stress scale, where you feel it in your body, the calming tools you used, a gentle journal prompt, and one kind thing to do for yourself tomorrow. Also includes a “What Stress Looks Like for Me” signals page, a Personal Calming Toolkit worksheet, and four weekly reflection pages. 39 pages. Instant digital download (PDF, US Letter). No physical item will be shipped.
Everything you need to set up a Calm Corner and teach students that calm is a skill. Designed for teachers, school counselors, and after-school program leaders. Inside: a teacher guide (setup, introducing the space, and a 5-minute routine); a Calm Corner welcome sign; Star Breathing and Box Breathing posters; a “How Big Is My Feeling?” 1-5 calm meter poster; a Calm Down Choices menu with 8 illustrated tools; a Calm Corner Agreements poster; 12 feelings check-in cards; a “My Calm Break” student reflection sheet; and 4 desk breathing strips with tap-to-count circles. Licensed for one teacher or counselor in their own classroom or program. Instant digital download (PDF, US Letter). No physical item will be shipped.
Hands-On Consulting Services
A private session to help you identify what nervous system dysregulation looks like for you personally, and build a simple daily toolkit — coloring, journaling, breathwork — that actually fits your life.
A guided session for a parent and daughter (or grandmother, aunt, or mentor) to work through calming prompts together, opening conversation across generations about stress, emotion, and self-regulation.
For teachers, counselors, or after-school program leads who want to bring nervous system literacy into their classroom or program, adapted to your students' age group and setting.
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