Why These Aren’t Your Average Coloring Books
Every design is paired with a breathing or meditative exercise to help you access a deeper level of chill, one that sticks around even after you put the book down. 
Every image to color is created keeping psychology and physiology and how they work together to create a way more chill state than you were when you reached for the page! 
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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 TF out.”
 
​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 and creativity in front of you. It can't use imagination at the same time, it's freaking the F out about a late bill. It has to choose. By coloring, you're actively engaging your mind in what you want it to choose to do, not what it chooses on its own (aka, spiraling or total freak out)
 
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) so you can 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.
 
Here’s why the patterns work:
Curved lines = calm AF. Your brain sees smooth, flowing shapes and goes, “Ahhh, we’re safe.” It’s the same feeling you get watching waves or clouds. Your system chills out. That’s not a vibe—it’s a parasympathetic response.
 
Straight lines = focus mode. Coloring clean, structured lines helps your brain organize chaos. It’s like giving your thoughts a filing cabinet. Great when your head feels like a browser with 37 tabs open.
 
Tiny spaces = instant mindfulness. When you're coloring small, detailed areas, your brain has no choice but to slow the hell down. It’s basically forced meditation, minus the sitting still and pretending not to think about snacks.
 
Big shapes = emotional release. Larger areas let you move bigger, breathe deeper, and dump out all that pent-up crap you’ve been carrying. Think of it as emotional exhaling through your hand.
 
Repetition = regulation. Your hand gets into a rhythm—stroke, fill, repeat. Your breath follows. Your nervous system catches the beat. This is where the shift really starts to happen.
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Retrain your nervous system to come down from survival mode, chill the F out, and remember what calm feels like.
 
Print out the pages you like or the entire thing. Find a comfy seat, your favorite adult beverage (or water, no judgment), put on some good tunes, and then just settle in to color and breathe. That's a pretty kickass way to spend a rainy Saturday if you ask me!