Blossom Within Book 3: Growth & Gratitude

Can I ask you a gentle question? When did you last look back?

Not at what's left on the list — at how far you've actually come. Because if you're anything like most of the brilliant women I know, you cross the finish line of one hard thing and you're already halfway into the next, without so much as a cup of tea in between.

If that's you, breathe, lovely. You are not ungrateful — you've simply never been given a lovely way to practise noticing. We were handed goals and deadlines and told that was growth.

Gratitude says otherwise. It isn't a chore at the end of a long day, and it certainly isn't pretending everything's fine. It's the quiet skill of turning enough into plenty — and it gets easier when your hands have something gentle to do. That's what this book was made for: thirty pages that keep your pencils moving while you take stock of the woman you're becoming.

This book is for you if…

• You've been growing and changing lately, and you'd like a beautiful way to actually notice it.
• You keep meaning to start a gratitude practice, but journalling from a blank page feels like homework.
• You love mandalas, intricate patterns and the particular joy of a fresh pack of pencils.
• You feel a bit silly saying affirmations out loud (colouring them first helps, promise).
• You have Courage & Confidence or Calm & Balance and you'd like the trio complete.

Here's what's inside — the journey, in order

Because growth was never really about rushing forward, we don't just give you patterns. We give you pages that gently talk back.

• Quotes to colour — words on learning, letting go and gratitude from Leo Tolstoy, Lao Tzu, William James, Les Brown, John Wooden and more — each wrapped in intricate mandalas and full-page designs.
• Affirmations to colour and say out loud — "I am always learning", "Today will be amazing", "I will never give up" and "I bloom at my own pace". Colour it, say it, believe it.
• Gentle journal prompts — seven of them: your three biggest priorities, your favourite memory with your parents, ten of your favourite things, what you secretly wish, the difficult experience you're now grateful for, and more, on pretty lined pages.
• A Pen & Pencil Test Page — swatch every colour and check for bleed-through before you commit to a favourite page.
• A gentle how-to guide — five soft pointers, including full permission to leave pages half-finished. Half-coloured is still progress.

What you'll get

• A beautifully designed 30-page colouring book PDF in the soft, warm style you know from my workbooks (35 pages including cover, guide and test page).
• Full 300dpi print quality — crisp lines that are marker- and pencil-friendly.
• US Letter sized, prints beautifully on A4 too.
• Growth quotes, affirmations to colour, and gentle journal prompts in one hopeful little book.
• Instant download · print it beautifully at home, or colour digitally on your tablet with an app like GoodNotes or Procreate.
• For personal use, with love — please don't copy, share or resell.

A note from me

This book is not about becoming a different woman — the finished one, the sorted one, the one with the five-year plan laminated. It's about giving the woman you already are a quiet moment to see how much she's grown. Every page you colour is a small act of taking stock: hands busy, mind soft, heart a little fuller. There is no behind here, no finished, no doing it wrong. Just you, your pencils, and the lovely realisation that you've come further than you think. With warmth and belief in you, Nefe x

Ready when you are

Add Growth & Gratitude to your basket and you'll receive an instant download link at checkout — so you can pour something warm and colour your first page tonight. No waiting for delivery, no talent required.

Get my Growth & Gratitude Colouring Book 

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Questions, gently answered

• Is this a physical book? No — it's a digital PDF, delivered instantly. Many lovelies print their favourite pages as they go; others print the whole book and pop it in a ring binder for that proper stationery joy.
• Do I need a special printer? Not at all — any home printer will do. Choose "actual size" (not "fit to page") and pop the quality up to high. Cardstock or 100gsm paper is lovely if you're using markers.
• Is it A4 or US Letter? The file is US Letter sized, but it prints perfectly on A4 — just select A4 in your print settings and it will scale beautifully.
• Can I colour it digitally? Absolutely — import the PDF into a tablet app like GoodNotes or Procreate and colour away, no printer required.
• Can I print it more than once? As many times as you like! Colour "Today will be amazing" every Monday morning if it helps. The licence is for your personal use only, so please don't share, copy or resell the file.
• Some of the mandalas look very detailed — will it take ages? Take all the ages you like — that's rather the point. There's a mix of intricate full-page designs and simpler pages, and half-coloured is a perfectly respectable place to stop.
• Do I have to do the journal pages "properly"? Not remotely. Scribble, cross things out, write sideways — it all counts.
• Where's my download? On your order confirmation page and in your confirmation email. If it's playing hide-and-seek, check your spam folder — and if it's still missing, just message me and I'll sort you out.

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While you're here… Growth & Gratitude is Book Three of the Blossom Within collection — Courage & Confidence is your bold sister book, and Calm & Balance is the soothing one. If the journal prompts stir something, my free Wheel of Life Workbook is the perfect way to take stock of where you are. For company while you colour, pop on an episode of Cappuccinos & Confidence, and for the loving weekly nudge, join Tuesday Thoughts. Everything lives at nefeoguntoye.com.