Free Mindfulness & ACT Tools for Parents
These free Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)–based resources help parents bring mindfulness and emotional steadiness into everyday life. Each printable is designed to nurture calm, connection, and resilience — for both you and your child.
Whether you’re taking a mindful pause, starting a new family routine, or learning to make space for tough moments, these tools offer gentle guidance you can return to again and again. 🌱
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Making Space in the Moment - A Mindful Acceptance Practice for Parents
A gentle 6-page guide to help parents pause, breathe, and make space for every feeling — without judgment or rush. With short reflections and mindful acceptance practices, you’ll learn to notice emotions with compassion instead of control.
Includes three quick “in-the-moment” tools for staying grounded, reflection space, and calm phrases you can share aloud with your child. A supportive start for modeling that calm begins not with perfection, but with presence.
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🌿 Want to go deeper?
The Expanded Pack for this parent resource will be coming soon! Please make sure to check back!
3 Tiny Noticing Practices for
Calmer Parenting
A gentle guide with three simple practices to help you pause, notice, and respond with more calm and connection during tough parenting moments. Includes a printable mini checklist and app suggestions to support your personal style - whether you prefer paper or screen.
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With seven calming sections grounded in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), The Parent Pause Toolkit expands on the above free resource to help meet you where you are, offering soft guidance without pressure or perfection.
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A Therapist's Guide to Understanding Autism & ADHD
This is a free therapist-created guide that helps parents of autistic and ADHD children replace outdated advice with gentle, practical tools. Backed by ACT principles and years of experience, it offers visuals, strategies, and hope for everyday parenting.
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Steady Space
A Parent’s Guide to Self-as-Context
A mindful 6-page guide to help parents find calm beneath the surface of daily life. Through three simple practices and reflection prompts, you’ll learn to rest in that steady place inside — showing your child how to stay grounded, even when the waters around you ripple.
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🌿 Want to go deeper?
The Steady Space – Expanded Pack builds on the free mini guide with 17 pages of practices, reflections, and family prompts to help you hold both the ripples and the pond.
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A Letter to the
Quiet Survivor
This quiet, compassionate resource is for parents who are running on empty - offering soft validation, space to exhale, and a reminder that survival is still strength. With calming visuals and low-demand reflection prompts, it helps caregivers feel seen without needing to fix or do anything.
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The Anxiety Trail Map: A Gentle Guide for Parents and Children
This free therapist-created guide helps parents support anxious and sensitive kids using gentle, visual tools rooted in ACT. With clear steps, real-life examples, and kid-friendly activities, it offers a calm, practical path through anxious moments together.
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Steady Steps for Parents: Awareness + Action in Everyday Life
A gentle 9-page guide to help parents pause, notice, and choose steady actions during everyday stress. With the simple “Stop → Notice → Choose” formula, you’ll learn how awareness and small choices can bring calm into daily routines. Includes a relatable real-life example, reflection space, and a short tracker to help steadiness grow one moment at a time.
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With six practical parts and printable tools, the Steady Steps for Parents: The Self-Regulation Toolkit expanded guide builds on the free mini version — giving you deeper practices, guided reflections, and steady step cards to support real-life regulation with clarity and flexibility.
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Mindful Moments for Grown-Ups
This gentle guide offers three simple mindfulness practices to help parents slow down and reconnect with themselves. With soft illustrations and calming reflections, it’s a quiet reminder that small pauses can create more ease and presence in daily life.
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The Sadness Trail Map: A Parent’s Guide to Sitting With Big Feelings
This free therapist-created guide helps parents support sad, withdrawn, or sensitive kids using gentle, visual tools rooted in ACT. With clear steps, real-life examples, and parent-led activities, it offers a steady, compassionate path through heavy feelings together.
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🌿 Take a mindful breath — you’re doing meaningful work.
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