New Series: COLOR WITH ME
When I color, I remember laying on the floor with my sisters. Carpet pile made marks on my elbows as I scribbled in a coloring book, my feet kicking behind me, the room growing dim as the sun set. We focused so much on the colors that we sometimes forgot to listen to my dad as he read out loud to us. Honestly, what good is Swiss Family Robinson when you’ve got Victorian dresses to make into rainbows?
When I color, I realize how much junk I’ve absorbed throughout my life. I need to unlearn the productivity tips and the performance pressure that keeps me all wound up. With coloring, there’s no grade. No performance review. No competition. That’s what makes it incredibly helpful, but that’s also what makes it very difficult. Unlearning is hard. It means we need to sit for a while and dare to enjoy—while daring to feel unmeasured. Unproductive. Noncompetitive. Daring to simply exist, resisting the temptation to prove ourselves, and trust that showing up more than enough.
Coloring is the easiest creative outlet with a very hard healing process wrapped up in it. I hope you join. I’m creating a youtube series where you can sit with me in this essential calm, creativity, and grounding.
This series will include a video for each page of my I Am Enough coloring book. I kicked everything off last week by coloring the title page and chatting about my vision for healing creative work that can happen via these videos. Three videos are out (see below) and the next is coming on Wednesday at noon!
In part 1, we color through the title page and intro pages to get us settled into the project. Why are affirmations important? How are they useful? Why would I find value in affirmations even though I’m often cynical about them?
In part 2, I chat through the “I am Enough” affirmation and how essential this reminder is to our grounding work. It’s an invitation to rest. A reminder that you are not your productivity.
In part 3, we color a pattern page together. I decided to try out a variety of mediums—5 to be exact!—to discover how they felt as I used them. Were they restful? Did they let me feel ok about mistakes? Or did I feel tense as I tried to keep my lines crisp? This ASMR is all about the experience.
Thank you!
I appreciate your care, your kindness, and your support. Please purchase the I Am Enough coloring book to color along with the YouTube series. Want to keep up with my work? Here are a few ways to get involved: