I'm Dr. Sandra Munoz — a Child & Family Mental Health Counselor with more than 25 years beside children and families, and the author of the Fiddleswerth® book series. But this letter didn't begin in my office. It began in my own home.

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My daughter was just two when Fiddleswerth, the little elf who lives on the moon, first came into our lives — a friend we'd wave goodnight to, who turned ordinary moments, a ladybug on the porch, the moon out the window, into small bits of wonder. Then, when she was five, her father died. And the friend we'd already loved for years became the one who helped carry her through it — leaving little notes and surprises, gentle reminders that she was watched over and never, ever alone.

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That's where this letter comes from. It's the comfort I reached for as a grieving mother, written down so other families have it too — a soft, hopeful way to tell a child that love doesn't disappear. It simply changes shape.

 

The letter is a free companion to my upcoming Fiddleswerth book, When Daddy Becomes a Star — and yes, it carries a piece of our own story inside it.