Garden of Healing
Garden of Healing
A Children’s Series About Courage, Safety & Being Heard
Some conversations are difficult for adults.
For children, they can feel impossible.
The Garden of Healing series uses beautifully illustrated stories, symbolic characters, friendship, and gentle language to help children explore complex experiences in a way that feels approachable and emotionally safe.
The books are also designed to create opportunities for trusted adults to listen, talk, reassure, and reinforce one essential message:
You deserve to feel safe. You deserve to be heard. And you never have to carry a frightening secret alone.
Book 1: Garden of Healing: Secrets
Speaking Up Is the First Step Toward Healing.
Sunshine is carrying a secret.
Something happened that left her confused, hurt, and unable to understand why she no longer feels like herself.
As Sunshine journeys through the garden, she meets friends who offer compassion instead of judgment. Slowly, she begins to understand that the secret she carries was never meant to be carried alone.
Through friendship, faith, safety, and the courage to speak to someone she trusts, Sunshine begins to heal.
Themes:
Speaking up · Safe adults · Friendship · Abuse awareness · Courage · Faith · Healing
Book 2: Garden of Healing: Believe Me
When a Child Speaks, Our First Responsibility Is to Listen.
Believe Me continues the Garden of Healing journey with a story centered around one of the greatest needs of a child who finds the courage to speak:
To be believed.
Through the experiences of the Garden of Healing characters, young readers are reminded that their feelings matter, their voice matters, and trusted adults should listen when something feels wrong.
For adults, the story carries an equally important reminder:
How we respond when a child speaks can become part of their trauma—or part of their healing.
Book 3: Look at Me
Sometimes a Child Is Asking for Help Without Saying a Word.
Look at Me encourages adults to see beyond behavior and pay attention to changes, emotions, fear, withdrawal, and the quiet signals that may tell us a child needs help.
It is a story about being seen—not simply looked at.
About being heard—even when words are difficult.
And about surrounding children with adults who are willing to notice, listen, believe, and protect.
FOR PARENTS, EDUCATORS & PROFESSIONALS
The Garden of Healing books can help begin age-appropriate conversations around:
Safe and unsafe secrets
Finding trusted adults
Speaking up
Body autonomy and personal safety
Recognizing difficult emotions
Listening to children
Believing disclosures
Supporting survivors
Friendship and compassion
Hope and healing
IMPORTANT NOTE: Because these stories address sensitive topics related to childhood sexual abuse, Rosilda encourages adults to read and discuss them alongside children and create room for questions, reassurance, and open conversation.
