About the Founder
ChriSOULa Sirigou
Founder & Steward of The HappyNEST
Author • Broadcaster • Educator • Community Weaver
Guide in Colour, Story, Scent & Inner Design
A life devoted to belonging
The HappyNEST was not created as a project.
It was born as a response.
A response to children who feel too much.
To parents carrying invisible exhaustion.
To families longing for safety, connection and a place to exhale.
To a world that forgot how to gather around the hearth.
At the heart of The HappyNEST stands its founder, ChriSOULa Sirigou,
How do we help humans feel safe enough to be who they truly are?
Roots: A Teacher Before the Title
ChriSOULa’s path began early.
At the age of 11, she found herself holding space for younger children.
By her late teens, she was teaching languages.
By her early twenties, she was already dreaming of creating her own school.
Although life led her from Greece to London and beyond, the calling never left:
to teach, to gather, to translate between worlds.
Languages, for ChriSOULa, have never been limited to words.
They include:
💚 the language of the heart
🌈 the language of colour
🌸 the language of aroma
💙 the language of story and play
💜 the language of inner wiring and design
Each one a bridge back to wholeness.
Over the past three decades, ChriSOULa has worked with children, parents, educators, creatives and community leaders across cultures and generations.
Her training and certifications include:
CELTA Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (1996)
BA (Hons) Linguistics (2004)
PGCE Modern Foreign Languages (2005)
Heart IQ Coaching (2013 - 2015)
Colour Mirrors Practitioner & Teacher Training (2014–2016) Colour & Numerology Consultant
Essential Oils & Aromatic Support
Emotional Wellness Advocate
Human Design Practitioner & Family Coach (2024)
Parenting by Design Teacher
Yet it is not qualifications that define her work.
It is lived experience.
ChriSOULa has witnessed first-hand:
- the rising mental health challenges in schools
- the silencing of sensitive and neurodivergent children
- the burnout of parents trying to “do it right”
- the rupture of roots following the pandemic
- the longing for connection beneath the noise
The HappyNEST exists because these experiences demanded a different response.
Author & Broadcaster
Stories as medicine
2018
ChriSOULa published The Book of Soulful Musings, an award-winning work inspired by ancient Greek wisdom, colour, rhythm and conversation.
A book inviting readers back to wholeness through reflection and presence.
2019
she sounded her first Clarion Call.
That call gave rise to the global community project RAINBOW Letters to Mother Earth, culminating in publishing her second book
2021
the book Little Sparks of Joy was created with contributions from children, parents, poets and creatives across the world.
Both books emerged not from strategy, but from collective listening.
Alongside her writing, ChriSOULa spent years in radio broadcasting (2010 -2019).
She now hosts The HappyNEST Podcast: From Hearth to Heart, offering life-inspiring conversations on belonging, family, creativity and wholehearted living.
The Birth of the RAINBOW Bears
In 2019, the RAINBOW Bears first appeared.
Not as characters, but as companions.
They arose from ChriSOULa’s work with children who struggled to name feelings, and parents who needed gentler ways to connect.
Each Bear embodies a core quality of belonging:
safety
acceptance
inner listening
care
boundaries
connection
wholehearted living
Together, they form the RAINBOW Arc of The HappyNEST.
Today, the RAINBOW Bears are the heart of a new book series beginning with: Bernie and the Tree of Belonging
A storyworld created not in isolation, but in partnership with real families, lived experiences and shared healing.
The HappyNEST
A living ecosystem
The HappyNEST is a community-rooted, creative and therapeutic ecosystem supporting children, parents and future generations.
It weaves together:
story and play
colour psychology
aroma and sensory regulation
Human Design and inner wiring
ancient wisdom and modern life
circle, hearth and belonging
Through:
HappyNEST Heart Circles
HappyNEST KIDS Circles
Hearth Gatherings
Online Nesting
Training pathways for Guides and Community Weavers
Books, podcasts and creative resources
ChriSOULa’s role is not to lead from above, but to steward, hold and pass on the torch.
A Legacy in the Making
The next chapter is unfolding.
The RAINBOW Bears book series is being created as a living legacy, shaped by:
families who choose conscious parenting
educators ready to lead differently
carers who declare, “This ends with me.”
This work honours intergenerational healing.
It invites adults to meet their inner child.
It offers children language for feelings.
It restores the hearth as a place of safety and wonder.
A Final Word from ChriSOULa
“I believe humans are not broken.
They are disconnected.
When we restore safety, belonging and imagination,
healing happens naturally.
The HappyNEST is my way of tending that fire
— so children, families and future generations
may grow rooted, radiant and whole.”
ChriSOULa Sirigou is the founder and hearth-holder of The HappyNEST.
Born in Greece and shaped by ancient philosophy, storytelling and community, her work bridges colour, conversation, scent and play to help children and adults feel safe, seen and at home
in themselves.
An intergenerational guide, author and long-time facilitator of heart-centred spaces, ChriSOULa brings together lived experience, gentle wisdom and creative practice to nurture belonging across families and future generations.
Through books, gatherings and the world of the RAINBOW Bears, she invites people of all ages to slow down, listen deeply and rediscover the quiet joy of wholehearted living.
The HappyNEST Experiences
The HappyNEST is an ecosystem of experiences, each expressing the same intention in different forms:
Hearth Gatherings
Heart Circles
From Hearth to Heart
HappyNEST Tools
