Playful tools
crafted to care
for the well-being
of parents
A sanctuary
built to nuture
the nurturers
It's parents who are the first teachers, the guides, and the role models. It's parents who are also the home cooks, the doctors, and the operations officers.
Living One has constructed a sanctuary for you, a shelter where you're allowed to be a learner as you seek to find home in yourself.
You can come here to practice living — slowly — in support of understanding your ever-evolving nature, while becoming comfortable prioritizing playful daily ritual acts that tend to your mental, emotional, and creative well-being. Balance.
Only with greater balance will you have the capacity to be in service to more.
You, dear parent, are essential and appreciated, and it's your turn to be cared for.
What if we've been focusing on the wrong things?
How would the ways we parent and live change if we became vulnerable enough to tell the whole truth?
Our children don't need as much as we think they do. We have permission to stop trying to fix them. The truth is, It's us, parents, who need more support.
Until we become courageous enough to dig to the root, not even the many parenting strategies and scripts will be able to truly provide the support we seek. Rather, we must do the new and uncomfortable thing of learning to care for ourselves first.
Our children have the innate ability to mirror our state of being, so once we begin to feel better inside, the feeling of our whole environment — and everyone in it — will shift. By holding ourselves accountable for prioritizing our own well-being, we will see a change in our children, too.
Parent life can bloom into a role that feels simpler, more free and full of ease, but first, it's up to us to fertilize the needs that lie dormant in our own inner garden. It has become imperative to invest inward, so that we can feel energized and inspired enough to keep pouring out.
Here's what you can expect from playing with our tools:
Practice
We humans tend to look for any path out of discomfort, but our tools actually lead you in. Human living is a practice, and our solutions simplify some of its most complex moments by playfully guiding the way from force, to flow.
Transform
Built upon a foundation of science, combined with the wisdom of life experience, our Tools for Living are expertly designed to be everything you need to change the way daily life feels, inside and out. With Living One as a guide, you’ll begin to embrace the courage it takes to create this type of profound shift, and then marvel as you see the ordinary become special.
Ritualize
By peeling away the unnecessary in order to make room for the essential, our tools make it possible to learn how to make everyday life a ritual. And with those rituals in place, you'll have made the time to enjoy the wonder of living. You'll soon discover that the little things really aren't so little.
The right tools — powered by intuition, science and love — always there when you need them most
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Made for Learning
Everything we design is imagined and researched in the hope of bringing you innovative, interesting tools that communicate with clarity and truth to ensure that you feel confident, knowledgeable, nurtured and inspired as you practice.
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Prioritizing Play
While our tools are meant to be teachers, it is play that is at the heart of each one. By focusing on play, we are choosing a human-centered approach that gives the body and brain exactly what is needed for peaceful, whole development.
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Thoughtfully Crafted
Each of our tools is put together with intention. Living One products are made and packaged with durable, high-quality materials that are crafted with you and our planet in mind. Our love for the earth is equal to our love for humans!
Common questions
What makes the Living One approach to well-being different from others?
Living One stands firmly behind its belief that each of us can learn — through practice — how to be truly human. Bound by our mission to care for humans through excavating the complex challenges that daily life presents, Living One is able to distinguish itself from others in the wellness community by offering tools that point the way to a simpler, more human existence. We consider this to be especially important at a time when life may seem complicated, and anything but simple.
Built upon a foundation of science and everyday life experiences — and bolstered by a large helping of play — our unique solutions provide exactly what’s needed to get to the heart of humanness, leaving anyone with a nervous system feeling an energy of joy, ease and trust. In other words, the Living One approach calls for more being and less doing. It highlights an intentionally slow, purposeful pace, so that with a little help from our tools, you won’t need anything more. It is our hope that the Living One approach to well-being will guide each of us closer to accessing our innate creativity so that we all may live in a genuine state of fulfillment, exactly as we are.
Who can benefit from Living One’s Tools for Living?
All offerings from Living One are especially supportive of parents and educators, who not only have the greatest impact on the lives of children, but who are also in desperate need of nurturance themselves.
Additionally, our offerings are designed for couples, workplace leaders, therapists, human development specialists, and anyone interested in learning how to enjoy the wonder of living.
While our products are not specifically designed to be children's toys, they can absolutely be used by children of all ages! Young people, ages 5 and up, will often be able to access the magic of our offerings, and if playing with a child younger than 5 years old, we recommend stepping into an attitude of flexibility, making the experience more about connection, practice, and exploring the ritual act of caring for mental, emotional, and creative well-being.
What is the meaning of the shapes?
Our custom designed Library of Shapes is symbolic of the ever-evolving nature of our humanness, as well as the constantly-changing, moving and shifting states of our emotions. The shapes are meant to serve as dynamic, joyful reminders that change is part of the very core of our human existence, and that without change, there can be no progress.
