This world is color.
Life is color.
You are color.

My dreams are vivid and in color. They are filled with bright colors. They are filled with fantastical things and passion galore.

I love to dream.
I love to be awake.
I love living in full color within both worlds.

Color to me is passion; it is feeling and being. It represents so much more than just the objective name of something your eyes interpret.

Color is the bright blue sky shining down on me and lifting me up.
Color is the warmth of sparking brown eyes smiling at me.
Color is the flashes of red over my eyes as my hair falls in my face from dancing so hard.

My life is full of color, passion, and feeling.

But it wasn’t always…

Through years of depression I had taught myself not to feel. I taught myself not to feel because depression felt like never ending pain and confusion. I felt sadness and deep pain without being able to uncover a reason why, which caused more anguish. I wanted to survive this depression, so my coping mechanism was to stop feeling all together. I did this to protect myself and preserve myself for a time when life would be better.

And that’s what I did…

I froze myself up for years. I missed out on pleasure, fun, and color in hopes that I could just survive to a better time. Luckily, I did survive. Then, over many years, I was able to open myself up again, to feel pain, to feel love, to feel color and passion.

This is a world of ups and downs, clarity and confusion, chaos and simplicity, love and heartbreak, growth and stumbling. But this is my world and I’m so grateful to experience all of the colors.

Come join me in the free live Self-Love Quest kicking off on October 5^th to put more color into your life.

Much love, Danielle