Welcome to the Garden of Healing Fairy Tales

These tales feature courageous characters that move from self-defeating and hurtful thoughts to empowering feelings and positive insights.

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Reflected Mercy

Mercy is covered in pieces of glass; it’s hurting her and all those who meet her. A grasshopper’s request for help just might set her free.

Themes: abuse, hateful thoughts, loneliness, breaking free of the past, self-forgiveness and self-love

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Mirror Mirror

Hattie feels like she’s never good enough until an unlikely Fairy Godmother shows her how to love herself.

Themes range from bullying, inter-generational trauma, self-empowerment, acceptance and self worth.

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Bela’s Song

Bela’s tongue is frozen solid, but she’s about to unleash its power to protect her with the help of her forest animals.

Themes: dealing with hurtful people to self-empowerment, healing, and claiming your voice.

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A Quest for Freedom

Aurelia wants to explore the world outside the forest her coven lives in but is bound by fear until one day she finds the courage to break free.

Themes range from courage, self-worth, confidence, self-value, inner-criticism, friendship, and bullying.

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Veera’s Twisted Ear

Veera’s twisted ear bends all words into criticism, but the worst untruths are the ones she tells herself.

Story themes range from neglect, burn-out, and inner criticism to self-value and connection to one’s heart.

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Mirror Sisters

When Sarah looks in the mirror, she only sees her big ears. But when she looks in her best friend’s mirror, she sees her beauty.

Story themes range from perfectionism, self-defeating thoughts, and criticism of body to value of friendship, self-appreciation and mutual encouragement.

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Singing Wind

She was Nameless. Those closest to her looked right through her, and she began to disappear altogether. But then the wind gave her a new name, and with it, a new life.

Story themes range from invisibility, loss of identity and emotional neglect, to self-love and acceptance and the healing power of nature.

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Sugar-coated

Lavender keeps herself safe from harm at home by being sweet as sugar. But outside, she discovers that only her truth will protect her.

Story themes range from abuse, anxiety, being afraid to speak one’s truth and people-pleasing to self-compassion, claiming one’s voice and trusting again.

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Rainbow Tights

Violeta’s colorful clothes brighten her mood even though the town Mushies make fun of her. But she finds being true to herself is more important than fitting in.

Story themes range from bullying, anxiety, and depression to self-acceptance and friendship.

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Tarred Wings

The acrobatic bird Ginger loves to make soul-tingling loops in the air, but now her wings are stuck together. How will she get free?

Story themes range from mean people, fear and anxeity to friendship and breaking free of past fears. 

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Aina The Demon

Aina has demons for caretakers and she believes she is a demon as well. The reflecting pond reveals another truth.

Story themes range from feeling that you have a lot of “demons” in the closet and therefore you need to hide; to accepting yourself and realising others have demons too.

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Broken Compass

Neblina is lost in a churning ocean full of needy creatures. Her compass keeps spinning. She’s exhausted. Discover how she finds her inner compass.

Story themes range from restlessness, anxiety, and feeling lost to self-knowledge and self-direction.

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The Girl Behind the Thorns

Three witch-mothers have thrown Regina out, and she must fend for herself in the wilderness. Her lizard friend reminds Regina of her strengths.

Story themes range from bullying and belittling to gaining confidence & self-knowledge.

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Harriet the Hardworking Honeybee

Harriet the Hardworking Honey Bee is the smallest bee. This means she has to work twice as hard. A caterpillar seems to have the solution. Or does he?

Themes range from perfectionism, self-criticism and self-worth to realising you are valuable just for being you.

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Freedom the Cat

An odd, orange cat with lustrous eyes sits upon a windowsill, come to save Luanne, a bone-thin woman, from the fear inside her heart.

Story themes range from phobias and anxiety to inner peace, self-focus, and meditation.

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The Glass Maiden

Maya feels darkness and pain inside her that she can’t share with anyone, unable to realize the treasure she carries with her.

Themes range from healing, feeling unworthy, depression and self-doubt to gaining confidence and self-value.

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