🌈 THE HAPPYNEST JOURNEY

🧸 THE BIRTH OF THE RAINBOW BEARS

Story guides for our time

The RAINBOW Bears emerged as a response.

Not to fix children —
but to care for children’s hearts and

support the adults who hold them.  

Each Bear embodies a theme from the RAINBOW Arc:

They speak through the HappyNEST Languages:
colour • story • play • aroma • imagination

✨ Gentle companions for children
✨ Bridges between child and adult worlds

🔥 THE FIRST CLARION CALL
When community answered
2019–2021 — RAINBOW Letters to Mother Earth project

In 2019 a clarion call invited children, parents, poets, artists and creatives
to express their feelings through colour, art, words and poetry
— with Mother Earth at the heart of our shared existence.

From this collective response emerged Little Sparks of Joy (2021):

a community-born book shaped by real voices during a time of
global upheaval, uncertainty and emotional need.

This marked the beginning of co-created storytelling as healing practice.

This book became a collective act of healing and a reminder that creativity is medicine.

🌍 THE TURNING POINT 

A world in transition

In the aftermath of the pandemic:

At the same time, neurodivergent needs surfaced with urgency —
often without adequate understanding, training or resources.

Too many children felt:

misunderstood • silenced • burnt out • disconnected

Too many parents felt:

unseen • judged • exhausted • alone

✨ Something new was needed.

🌈 THE NEW CLARION CALL 

A Call from the Hearth 

This is a call to: 

A call to choose:
connection over control
compassion over shame
presence over perfection

✨ A call to protect imagination and emotional safety.

Where the two books belong in the HappyNEST ecosystem 

Think of the HappyNEST as a tree. 

Roots = Ancient wisdom, lived experience, education of heart + mind
Trunk = You, your voice, your stewardship, your clarion calls
Branches = Projects, books, broadcasts, circles
Fruits = What families and future generations receive

The books are not “products”. They are initiations along the way.

The Book of Soulful Musings (2018)
→ The Seed Book
→ Planted the philosophy
→ ChriSOULa established her voice as a guide of heart, conversation, colour, rhythm, wholeness
→ Introduced the idea: education without the heart is incomplete

Little Sparks of Joy (2021)

→ The Community Flame Book
→ Born from a collective clarion call
→ Anchored Mother Earth, creativity, emotional expression, global voices
→ Proved that people will gather when the hearth is lit with sincerity

The RAINBOW Bears Book Series (Now Birthing)

→ The Living Legacy Books
→ Designed for children AND the adults walking beside them
→ Rooted in emotional safety, neurodivergence awareness, relational languages for emotional safety and wholehearted living
→ Not just read… lived, practised, embodied 

"A different language is a different vision of life"
Federico Fellini 

Colour Mirrors is a gentle self-reflection system.

It uses colour as a language of the emotions and the soul.

Each colour reflects different emotional states, strengths, challenges, and life themes, helping us understand what is alive in us right now and what is asking for care, balance, or expression.

Rather than telling us who we should be, Colour Mirrors invites us to notice who we are becoming, using colour as a mirror rather than a label.

It supports self-awareness, emotional literacy, and compassionate choice-making, especially during times of change, transition, or healing.

Colour Mirrors uses colour as a mirror for the heart, revealing what is ready to
be seen, felt, and gently transformed.

For children and families 

Colours help feelings speak.
Colour Mirrors gives children and adults a shared, non-threatening way to talk about emotions, needs, and 
inner experiences without pressure or judgement.

Where words feel too heavy, colour tells the truth softly.

Essential Oils help the body feel safe enough for the heart to open.

Essential oils as emotional language

 At The HappyNEST, essential oils are not used to fix or force change.
They are used as aroma messengers.
Essential oils speak directly to the limbic system, the part of the brain that holds memory, emotion, safety, and belonging.
This means their influence is felt before it is understood, bypassing logic and reaching the places where words often cannot.
Rather than asking us to think differently, they invite us to feel differently.

How they work,
gently explained 

 When we inhale an essential oil, its aroma sends a signal to the brain that can:
soothe the nervous system
awaken forgotten feelings
bring buried emotions to the surface or
create a sense of grounding, safety, or clarity
Each oil carries its own emotional tone.
Some calm. Some open the heart.
Some support courage, grief, joy, or rest.
The body responds intuitively.
There is no right or wrong reaction.

The HappyNEST philosophy

 Essential oils do not tell us what to feel. They invite us to notice what we are feeling. They create a bridge between the body and the heart, offering a safe sensory entry point for those who may find talking, analysing, or “doing the work” overwhelming.
This makes them especially supportive for: 

“We work with doTERRA essential oils for their ethos, quality, and science-led approach to wellness.”

If aroma is the language of emotion,
then Human Design is the language of inner wiring. 🌈🧭

Human Design is a gentle map of 
how your energy works.

It shows how you’re designed to make decisions, use your energy, relate to others, and move through life with less resistance and more ease.

It’s not about fixing yourself.
It’s about remembering yourself.

Human Design weaves together ancient wisdom and modern science to offer a practical insight into:

At The HappyNEST, Human Design is used as a permission slip. 

A way to say: you’re not broken, you’re built differently.

Just as scent bypasses the mind and speaks directly to the heart,
Human Design bypasses comparison and speaks directly to your truth,
helping you live, parent, work, and relate in ways that feel aligned, kind, and sustainable.

The RAINBOW Bears:
gentle emotional companions

If Human Design is the map, then the RAINBOW Bears are the companions who walk the path with you. 🧸🌈

The RAINBOW Bears help feelings find colour, language, and kindness. 

Each bear represents one colour and core feelings from the RAINBOW Arc of The HappyNEST, helping children and adults recognise, name, and befriend their inner world.

They offer a soft, playful way to explore big feelings like belonging, safety, courage, balance, and joy, without needing to explain, fix, or rush anything.

Through story, colour, imagination, and presence, the RAINBOW Bears help emotions feel safe to be felt, shared, and understood.

They’re a gentle bridge between emotions and expression, supporting emotional literacy, self-regulation, and connection. 

The RAINBOW Bears are little guardians of the heart, teaching us that every feeling belongs.

They help the heart feel seen, 
the body feel safe and 
the inner child feel held.

ChriSOULa Sirigou
Creator of The RAINBOW Bears