Rosador and the Dark Forest

The author uses her background experience in counselling, to help children who are struggling with feelings like guilt, shame, depression, and other immobilising and self destructive emotions.

During times of change and challenge, it is very easy, and often inevitable, that a child can assume they they've done 'something wrong' and there's 'something wrong 'with them.

The author uses various fantasy characters who undergo various challenges, and are shown by their friends, in ways that children can respond and relate to easily, that they are not the cause of the circumstances.

The book has been carefully crafted to help children develop a sense of wholeness, happiness, peace and self confidance.

This helps them avoid self injurious preoccupations with seeking other's approval, or need to control and dominate, as they become older.