Why These Aren’t Your Average Coloring Books

Coloring can be calming. But coloring with breathwork? That’s a full-on nervous system reset.

These books were built for WAY more than just pretty pages. Every design is paired with a breathing or meditative exercise to help you access a deeper level of calm, one that sticks around even after you put the book down.

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Here’s why it works:

• Breathing is your built-in brake pedal. When you’re stressed, your sympathetic nervous system (aka fight-or-flight mode) is in overdrive. Slow, deep breathing activates the vagus nerve, flips the switch to your parasympathetic system (rest-and-digest mode), and tells your brain, “We’re safe. Chill.”

• Coloring gives your brain something to hold onto. While your hand fills in patterns, your focus shifts from the chaos in your head to the rhythm in front of you. That repetition grounds you mentally, emotionally, and even physically.

• Combining the two resets your entire system. Breath + motion = regulation. It’s like syncing up your heart, lungs, and brain into one steady rhythm. Bonus: it strengthens the neural pathways between your emotion center (amygdala) and your logic center (prefrontal cortex). Translation? You handle life better.

• You’re teaching your brain how to get calm on command. Every time you pair coloring with a breathing technique, your brain links the two. Do it enough, and that technique alone becomes your shortcut to calm, with or without the crayons.

And if you’re a parent? (see more below on the kids' books!)

• The children’s books use playful stories + breath + coloring to build emotional tools early. Each one focuses on a real struggle kids face (big emotions, fear, control, frustration) and pairs it with a silly story, a simple breathing trick, and a page to color while they practice. There’s even a laugh or two in there for the grown-ups.