Toolkit
the hushri toolkit
A growing library of free, downloadable resources for anyone who finds the world too loud: a guide and workbook, plans and checklists for the hard moments and everyday calm, cards and notes to help others understand, and printables for parents. Clear, useful, and yours to keep.
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Starter guide & workbook
A full 29-page introduction to noise sensitivity, with a companion workbook of three guided worksheets to map your triggers. Free when you join our email list, ready to download straight away, and included with membership.
Get them free by emaileveryday calm, and the hard moments
Sensory overload recovery plan
A gentle, one-page plan for before, during and after overload. Simple steps for the hardest moments, and no right way to do it.
Download plan (PDF)Going-out and appointment planner
A calm checklist for shops, travel and appointments when it may be loud. Prepare a little, take what helps, and leave the rest.
Download planner (PDF)A calmer home checklist
A gentle, room-by-room checklist for softening everyday noise at home. Tick what you would like to try, at your own pace. Fillable on screen.
Download checklist (PDF)Quieter nights sleep guide
Gentle, practical ways to protect sleep from noise: winding down, steady sound, and what to try when noise wakes you.
Download guide (PDF)helping others understand
Sensory support cards
Wallet-sized printable cards that explain, kindly and quickly, what helps when sound is too much. Handy to show at work, in shops, or at school.
Download cards (PDF)Reasonable adjustments request
A ready-to-use letter to ask for noise-related adjustments at work or a service. Fill it in, print just the letter, and keep a copy. No diagnosis needed.
Download letter (PDF)Explaining it to others
A note to help family, friends and colleagues understand noise sensitivity, and what helps. Share it in full, or a line at a time.
Download note (PDF)Printable door hangers
Gentle door signs in hushri's voice, to hang on a handle when you need quiet or a little space, without explaining out loud. Print, cut out, and hang.
Download hangers (PDF)for parents and carers
Supporting a child who finds the world too loud
For parents and carers, to use with your child: spotting overload, responding calmly, and small adjustments at home and out.
Download guide (PDF)Now and next board
A printable now, next, then, last visual board for parents to use with a child who finds speech overwhelming. Show the plan, instead of saying it. Fillable on screen.
Download board (PDF)Members get the full library as it grows. Become a member to support hushri and unlock everything.
Free online tools
calm tools, right in your browser
Nothing to download, nothing to sign up for. Each one is private by design, and the breathing and sound tools keep working offline once you have visited them.
A quiet space, right now
One bookmark for the hardest moments: a full-screen breathing circle and an optional gentle sound, nothing else.
Open the quiet spaceReset zone
Guided breathing in your own pattern, box breathing, 4-7-8 and more, with optional background sound and a grounding exercise.
Visit the reset zoneCalming sounds
Layer colour noises into your own mix, in gentle stereo, with a sleep timer, and share a mix you love with a single link.
Open calming soundsHow loud is it?
A gentle noise check using your device's microphone. If the number is high, it is not you being "too sensitive".
Check the noiseNoise diary
A private diary for loud days: triggers, intensity and what helped. It stays on your device, and prints when you need evidence.
Start your diarySelf-check with a quiet plan
A detailed, private noise sensitivity self-assessment. Get your score, see where noise shows most, and print a personal quiet plan.
Take the self-check