Still chasing color, still chasing calm
Reflection tools and coloring books — for women finding their calm, and for the kids in their lives.
FOR YOU
Calm the Noise
A reflective coloring book. Fifty pages to color, fifty prompts, and music to listen to while you do.
FOR THE CHILD IN YOUR LIFE
The Adventures of BooBoo & Boots
Ages 4 to 8. An adventure that stops on the page to ask what BooBoo and Boots are feeling — and what a kind choice might be.
One of these is for you. The other is for a child who hasn't yet learned that a feeling has a name.
Same idea, forty years apart.
WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
I grew up the youngest of eight in a small Texas town. That's where I learned to be quiet in a loud house — and coloring is how I did it.
The porch table, sometime in the eighties.
The same two of us, a few decades on.
Coloring has been part of my story since childhood. These books are an invitation back to it — presence, comfort, and a little peace.
FULL CIRCLE — THE WORDS
I was seven with a box of eight
Coloring outside the lines was fine
My mom's kitchen table, chipped and low
The radio playing something slow
And here I am, full circle now
Same steady hands, just older somehow
Still chasing color, still chasing calm
Turns out I never really left at all
Now it's my table, my own four walls
My own tired hands after the calls
I open the page like I did back then
And somehow I'm seven again
Maybe you're holding this for someone too
A daughter, a friend, a version of you
However it found its way to your hands
I hope it gives you what it gave me — a plan
To just breathe, and color, and start again
And here I am, full circle now
Same steady hands, just older somehow
Still chasing color, still chasing calm
Turns out I never really left at all
Full circle… full circle…
Same hands, same peace, still here
The Monthly Note
Once a month I'll write to you — where I'm at and what I'm working on.
If we were friends who only got to talk once a month, this is what I'd tell you.
Leave whenever you like.
Christi Ireland
COACH • AUTHOR • CREATOR
Christiireland, LLC
1601 29th St Unit 1292 PMB 1341
Boulder, CO 80301-1010
