The Big Feelings Lab

Helping children and teens understand their emotions, build confidence, and develop lifelong emotional strength.

Helping children and teens understand their emotions and grow with confidence

Provide your child / teen with practical tools that support emotional understanding, confidence, and resilience. Calm Within Chaos offers carefully designed worksheets and resources that help children and teens recognise their feelings, develop coping strategies, and build lifelong emotional strength.

Emotional Regulation Tools

Practical, structured resources to help children calm their bodies, organise their thoughts, and feel more in control during big emotional moments. Designed to build regulation skills step by step.

Anxiety & Overwhelm Support

Gentle, supportive tools for children who experience worry, stress, or sensory overload. These resources help create safety, predictability, and confidence during challenging moments..

Neurodiversity Support

Strength-based tools created with neurodivergent children in mind. Visual supports, structured strategies, and regulation resources designed to honour different ways of thinking and feeling.

Learning Through Play

Skill-building games and interactive activities that support emotional growth in a natural, engaging way. Because regulation, confidence, and connection can grow through play.

Emotional Literacy

a child holding some feeling cards

Resources that help children understand, name, and express their feelings. Building emotional vocabulary is the foundation for self-awareness, resilience, and healthy communication.

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Our Story

As a parent of a neurodivergent child and a teenager, alongside my background in mental health occupational therapy and teaching abroad, I understand how important emotional support and confidence are for a child’s wellbeing.
The Big Feeling Lab provides practical tools to help children and teens build emotional strength, confidence, and calm.

About

Created by a Qualified Occupational Therapist


10+ years mental health experience
Practical, structured strategies
Neurodivergent-informed approach
Parent-friendly language