It’s easy to talk about the
weather outside, even if it changes all the time.
But it’s hard to talk about the weather inside me. Sometimes it feels like people don’t understand.
Do you feel like that too?
Some days my mind is full of sunshine and rainbows. I feel like
I can do anything.
On other days my head is full
of fog and clouds. It’s hard
to listen to what people are saying
or to remember things.
I sometimes wake up feeling like
it’s windy and wild in my head.
I feel tired and grumpy.
And sometimes it feels like it’s raining inside me. It can be
a drizzle making me feel sad,
or a storm making me feel angry.
Sometimes the weather inside
me doesn’t match the
weather outside.
Sometimes my inside weather doesn’t match how I want to feel or how I think I should feel.
Is that okay?
Yes, of course it is.
The best thing to do when we feel like our inside weather is strange
is to tell someone we love,
and talk about it.
They’ve got inside weather too, and they’ll understand.
My Inside Weather
My Inside Weather
Illustrator: Lara Berge
Author: Jen Thorpe
Designer: Emma Beckett
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence
Website: https://bookdash.org/
Editor: Janita Holtzhausen