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Creating Healing Spaces for Children by Etienny Trindade
The book · For parents and educators

Creating Healing Spaces
for Children.

The home you raise your children in is shaping who they are becoming. A guide to designing spaces that support a child's regulation, focus, sleep and emotional wellbeing. No renovation required.

185 pages · Kindle and paperback

If your child cannot settle, cannot focus, sleeps poorly or seems wired by five o'clock, the answer may not be another routine.

It may be sitting around them, hour by hour, asking them to regulate something their nervous system was never meant to regulate.

Who this book is for

For everyone who keeps asking, why is this so hard?

Parents

You have tried every routine

The mornings still unravel. The answer may not be parenting harder. The answer may be in the space.

Educators

Two different children

You have watched the same child behave like two different children in two different spaces. This book gives you the language for what you have been seeing.

Support

A neurodivergent child

Many of their needs are environmental, not behavioural. The right space lifts the floor under their whole day.

What is inside

How light in the evening changes bedtime. How one change to a child's bedroom can shift their day. And why visual clutter is something a child's nervous system has to process, not just mess.

Practical, gentle and grounded in how children actually feel, learn and regulate.

Verified Amazon reviews

What readers are saying.

"The depth of knowledge and passion for children's wellbeing is so evident. No stone is left unturned in giving us the insight and tools to provide environments where our little ones can be supported in being wholeheartedly themselves. Sincerely, thank you Etienny."

Di Russell · Verified Amazon purchase, Australia · April 2026

"A fantastic resource for parents wanting to design a healthy space for their children. I still learned quite a lot from this book and have already made some changes to my children's rooms as a result. A great easy read and easy to implement."

Elizabeth Santos · Verified Amazon purchase, Australia · September 2025
The book

Your child's space is shaping them right now.

Read it on Sunday. Make one change on Monday. Notice the difference by Saturday.