Reading Companion Toolkit
For Parents & Caregiver
CA$19.00
The book is for your child.
This is for you.
A chapter-by-chapter guide for the parent, caregiver, or educator who wants to be truly present in this story — and carry its framework into everyday life.
This guide is designed to be read by you before you open the book with a child. Not because the story needs preparation — it doesn't. The Ember Compass works beautifully as a straight read. But you may be more present in the experience if you know what is coming. So this is for you.
Three Part Reflections:
For the child
Questions a child can answer honestly. Invitations to notice and name what is happening inside them.
For you
Questions for the adult, because your emotional history shapes how you respond to your child's feelings. This guide asks you to notice yours.
Together
Questions to explore side by side. This piece creates the conversations families continue to talk about months later.
Overview
60 Pages
Chapter-by-chapter reflections
The research behind emotional processing and why feelings need witnesses
What Disappointment Needs — acknowledgement, permission, curiosity
Common caregiver responses — what helps and what to try instead
The Compass Code in daily practice
Digital PDF — download instantly and yours to keep forever
The book teaches readers that feelings happen for us, not to us.
This guide supports you to integrate the same thing.
Chapter-by-chapter reflections
A reflection section for every chapter — questions to ask your child, questions to sit with yourself, and questions to explore together. Use them as you read or return to them after.
What disappointment needs
A research-grounded section on what children specifically need when disappointment arrives — acknowledgement before action, permission to fully feel, and curiosity instead of correction.
Common caregiver responses
A plain-language table of what we usually say when a child is disappointed — and what to try instead. A reorientation for old patterns and cycle-breakers.
The flip side explained
The research behind why feelings that are witnessed move through more quickly than feelings that are suppressed — and what that means for how you respond.
The Compass Code in daily life
How to bring the three questions into everyday family moments — at dinner, at bedtime, in the car after something hard.
Deeper journal prompts
Prompts for your own reflection as a caregiver, because the deepest instruction in the book is not just for Casey. It is for every adult who ever had a feeling no one sat with.
This is not a clinical resource, it is an educational companion — grounded in research, written by a PhD, and offered in the spirit of curiosity and connection. If your child needs professional support, this resource is not a substitute but it may help you seek it with more confidence. If your child simply feel things enormously, this companion will help you meet them there.
