I feel it. I name it. I color it. I choose what helps.
— The Feelings Room mantra
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Meet Zara!
My Feelings Have Colors is the first book in The Feelings Room series. A story about children learning to name what they feel, in a room where every feeling is welcome.
Zara discovers that anger is red and swirls like fire. Zara learns that feelings don't have to be scary when someone sits with you and says, we can paint it together.
With Mrs. J by her side, and a feelings chart on the wall that looks just like her, Zara finds out that every color, every emotion, every part of who she is belongs here.
This wasn't made in a classroom. It was made from lived experience.
I grew up in the Jordan Downs projects in Watts, California with big feelings and no words for them. No book showed a little girl who looked like me learning to name what was happening inside. I figured it out the hard way.
Twelve years later, I'm a credentialed school counselor and an Ed.D. student in Social Justice Education. I've sat in hundreds of small groups with Black and Brown children who are doing the same thing I did — feeling everything with no language for it and no mirror to reflect it back.
I built The Feelings Room because those children deserve better. So did the little girl I was.
— The Melanated Social Justice School Counselor
Built for the people in the room.
For caregivers
Tools to help you name big feelings at home, without a counseling degree.
For educators
Small-group lessons and visuals that fit into the minutes you actually have.
For school counselors
Identity-affirming SEL you can pull off the shelf and use tomorrow.
Real Feelings. Real Growth. Real You.
CASEL-aligned SEL books and curriculum created by a school counselor, for school counselors.
We help children understand their emotions, develop confidence, and build a strong sense of identity and belonging through real-life school experiences.
Tools for Big Feelings. Real Kids. Real Change.
Free Tools for Big Feelings
Because every child deserves a starting place. The Free Feelings Worksheet is an identity-affirming SEL tool to help children name what they feel — in language that feels real, in images that look like them. Use it at home, in your classroom, or in your counseling room.
- • Features: An emotional literacy map and creative expression zone.
• Target: Primary ages 4–8, easily scaled for older elementary students.
No spam. Just tools that help kids name what they feel.
The Feelings Room Is Just the Beginning
The Feelings Room is the first creative space I’m building for children.