About Me - Melody Joy Cary

My name is Melody Joy Cary. I am a Christian wife, mother, and entrepreneur.

I help others find inner peace through coloring and publish children’s books to teach kids important life lessons.

These aren’t the only hats I wear, but first I’ll share my own inner peace journey.

I have struggled with anxiety and depression for about as long as I can remember. However, I’ve never been officially diagnosed because it’s always been just barely manageable.

My struggle to fall asleep at night became a problem when I was pregnant with my oldest daughter in 2017. Coupled with a growing phone addiction as I had gone through too many major life changes in too short of a time to actually deal with them, chronic exhaustion became my new normal.

Two children and several years later, I only had a dozen or so nights when I got a solid eight hours of uninterrupted sleep. While a lot of that has to do with breastfeeding babies, there’s also a large part that has to do with the hours I would spend scrolling on my phone before bed.

What scrolling did for me was give me a sense of control and gave me little dopamine boosts. It also made it impossible for me to fall asleep for at least an hour after the phone was shut off. My mind kept racing with everything I had filled it with and the blue light told my brain it was daytime, not time to sleep.

I was driving myself insane. I had trapped myself in a vicious cycle.

As it turned out, I already had the solution to my own problem. I knew that coloring could help with all of my stress-related issues. I had been creating coloring books for several years at that point, and have a physical copy of all of them.

I had found a way to put down my phone. Now, nearly every night, I spend about 20 minutes quietly coloring. And I’ve started sleeping better than I have in years, even having to wake up with the baby occasionally.

If you want to have a taste, pick up the free sample coloring pack I have available. There are 15 pages you can try out and you’ll be added to my Inner Peace Journey email list where you’ll get more tips and tricks PLUS a coupon if you want to pick up my full 400 coloring pages.

For those wondering what those other “hats” are that I wear online, here they are:

I also sell children’s items at consignment sales, attend craft/vendor shows to sell my picture books and coloring books, and do arts and crafts.

My two oldest children are homeschooled, and we enjoy Civil War Reenacting together as a family.

How do I do it all? I’m not entirely sure but I do know that finding my inner peace through coloring has been a huge help in allowing me to juggle everything that I enjoy doing.

Here’s that link one more time to grab your free sample pages!