Birch & Light is a whole parenting ecosystem for parents raising highly sensitive, deeply feeling children. It brings together illustrated children's books on emotional wellness, the LightMap parenting app (with an AI thinking partner called Muse that supports day-to-day parenting and communication with a child's care team), long-form articles, deep-dive parenting podcasts hosted by Mae and Rowan, original songs, printable parent guides, conversation cards, reflection pages, coloring packs, courses and workbooks — all made by CCF-certified coach and author Tara Alison.
Born from Tara Alison's own family — a mother of five, a Certified Coaches Federation (CCF) coach, and a former Board of Education member — Birch & Light exists to help parents understand what's really going on underneath the meltdown, the shutdown, or the refusal, and to give them practical, non-clinical support they can use tonight.
Parents raising kids who feel everything more — the child who unravels after school, the teenager who's slipped somewhere you can't reach, the sensory-sensitive eater, the deeply anxious sleeper, the child everyone else calls "too much." Birch & Light meets you where the pediatric checklist ends.