Heart of Care
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Meet Sage & Sire

Sage and Sire are the storytelling guides of Heart of Care — a grandmother goat and her grandson goat, drawn as an allegory so the lessons can travel like a storybook. Together they carry the wisdom, courage, reflection, and resilience that thread through every page of this work.

Sage — a cartoon grandmother goat with soft cream-and-gray fur, small round reading glasses, a hand-knit sage-green shawl with wooden buttons, and a sprig of rosemary behind one ear, holding a leather journal and a bundle of dried herbs under an old oak tree
Sage · the grandmother goat

Sage

Sage is the gentle side of the Honey Badger — wisdom, calm, reflection, nature, emotional safety. The part of the story that helps people slow down, notice what they feel, and find grounding in the middle of life's hard places.

  • Wisdom of lived experience
  • Emotional safety
  • Gentle reflection
  • Grounding in nature
  • The pause before the response
Sire — a cartoon young grandson goat kid with a pale platinum-blonde tuft between tiny budding horns, bright blue eyes, blue-rimmed round glasses, a slightly-too-big rust flannel shirt, a brass compass on a leather cord, and a small carved walking stick on a golden-hour forest path
Sire · the grandson goat

Sire

Sire is the grandson goat — courage, character, resilience, responsibility, and the legacy a grandmother gets to pass forward. He carries the questions every young heart asks and the lessons every grown-up wishes someone had taught them sooner.

  • Courage to keep walking
  • Protection of the tender places
  • Resilience and responsibility
  • Character built day by day
  • Legacy carried forward

Sage and Sire are how I tell the truest part of this work — a grandmother and her grandson, learning out loud. Healing isn't only about surviving the past. It's about learning, growing, connecting, and passing wisdom forward.

— Briana, the Honey Badger

Where they walk with us

Sage and Sire show up throughout Heart of Care — introducing coping skills, family-connection lessons, emotional wellness tools, recovery reflections, and character-building content.

Trauma-informed carePeer supportFamily connectionGrandparent & grandchild wisdomEmotional regulationCoping skillsRecoveryLegacyResilienceThe Eight Dimensions of Wellness

Spend time with them on the page

Sage and Sire also live inside their own legacy workbook — built to help grandparents and grandchildren share stories, wisdom, values, and life lessons across generations.

See the workbook