Panic Pages for Resistance

These pages are filled with a tool that I used to calm my neurodivergent mind during a time of high stress and legitimate crisis. They are also designed to celebrate and support Americans as they self-care and prepare to resist. This book also serves as a post-resistance activity and a calming tool. I designed the pages before you after some soul-searching and research into how the neurodivergent brain works. Our brains are always going. They are overthinking, overemoting, overanalyzing, and more. The one thing that I’ve found to quiet or to begin to calm a brain in this state is to switch the brain from emotions to art. I also wanted these particular pages to be a refuge for those who need to find calm and safety in a world that is sometimes hateful, stressful, and unwelcoming to differences. The Starseed Panic Pages work by forcing the brain to shift from emotion-based thinking to logic-based reasoning. Each page looks like a color-by-numbers adventure. It’s not. Instead, these pages are a way to manipulate and activate the microfocus switch in a neurodivergent brain. Doing so, in my experience and research, seems to move the brain away from the emotions and overthinking, and onto the problem at hand, finding numbers to color and writing up inner thoughts in the journal prompts.