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Tender Ground

A workbook on what trauma-informed care actually is — and how to practice it for yourself, your people, and the small daily moments in between.

Tender Ground workbook cover — a hand-bound journal resting on soft moss and pressed wildflowers

$27 · instant download

Trauma-informed care, in plain language.

75–100 pages of peer-written teaching, journal prompts, coping-skill practice, wellness check-ins, and small action plans. Written by Briana F. Harden, CPS-MH — the Honey Badger behind Heart of Care.

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What's inside

  • 20–30 pages of teaching — what trauma-informed care is (and isn't), the nervous-system basics underneath it, and how it shows up in real conversations.
  • Daily-practice worksheets — small, repeatable ways to bring trauma-informed care into your own day, not just other people's.
  • Coping-skill exercises — grounding, self-regulation, and "what-do-I-do-right-now" tools you can actually use mid-spiral.
  • Journal prompts & wellness check-ins — for the slow, honest work of noticing your own patterns.
  • Action plans — gentle, written-down next steps for hard weeks, relapse-prevention, and steady seasons.

A peek inside

Cream pages, hand-lettered chapter titles, ginger lily dividers, and plenty of room to write.

Tender Ground front cover — a cream hand-bound workbook with a hand-lettered title and ginger lily illustration, resting on moss and pressed wildflowers
Front cover
An open spread inside Tender Ground showing the Chapter One heading with a ginger lily divider and a journal prompt page with dotted writing lines and a sage reflection box
Inside spread
Tender Ground back cover with a hand-lettered quote about trauma-informed care being a daily practice, with a small ginger lily and Heart of Care mark
Back cover

Read a few pages first

A small preview of the writing — the teaching, the prompts, and the steady-yourself pages. So you know exactly what you're bringing home.

Chapter One opener page — 'What Trauma-Informed Care Actually Is' in hand-lettered script, with a ginger lily divider and a few paragraphs of plain-language teaching about leading with compassion over correction
Chapter opener — the teaching pages
A journal prompt page titled 'A gentle check-in' with three reflective questions and dotted writing lines, including 'What does my body need right now?'
Journal prompts — for honest noticing
A coping-skill page titled 'Grounding when the ground gives way' walking through the 5-4-3-2-1 sensory grounding exercise with a sage reflection box reading 'Notice without fixing'
Coping skills — the 5-4-3-2-1 page
A daily-practice action plan page titled 'Small, steady, on-purpose' with three labeled sections — one kind thing for my body, one honest sentence, one soft boundary — each with writing lines
Action plan — small daily practice

Preview pages shown at workbook scale.

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"Trauma-informed care isn't a tone of voice. It's a daily practice — and it starts with the way you treat yourself."

— Briana, the Honey Badger

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