Color Archetypes
Every color is an archetype, and every archetype is holding something of yours.
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About this book
Two years of writing, and hundreds of women who walked this method as a course long before it was ever a book. What it gives you is a map: your own childhood color energy map, drawn on the color wheel, showing which energies you were born with, where they got stuck, and what each one is still asking for.
Three energies run underneath a life. Core energy, which answers who am I. Connection energy, which answers what is my purpose. Spiritual energy, which answers what makes me happy. This book walks you through all three and through the transitions between them, using color, archetypes, shamanic journeys and your own journal pages. The exercises are built for the real things: anxiety, self doubt, old childhood patterns, the things that are hard to say out loud.
This is a course, not a book you only read
This book was a course before it was ever a book, and it kept the shape of one. Nine guided journeys, and every one of them is built the same way, so you always know what to do next.
The teaching
What this energy is, which colors carry it, and which archetypes live in it.
A visualization
A full guided journey, written out word for word, to do with your eyes closed.
A writing exercise
Prompts that reach childhood patterns through color instead of through analysis.
Inspiration for artwork
A short list of instructions for the page you make afterwards. That is the lesson finished.
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What this book actually changes
You get your own color map
Not a general theory. A map of your childhood energies that you draw yourself and can come back to for years.
Old patterns become workable
Writing exercises and visualizations that reach childhood patterns through color instead of through analysis.
Color stops being decoration
Primary and secondary colors, their archetypes and what each one heals, laid out clearly.
You finish with a talisman
The last chapter builds a physical object to bring back the parts of yourself the process uncovered.
What is inside
This book is for you if
- You are drawn to color and you have never known why
- You have done talking therapy and you want a route that is not words
- You work with archetypes, Jung, shamanism or the tarot and you want a creative practice for it
- You have read Layers of Meaning and you want to go deeper
Book details
The other two books
About the method, and about me
I am an art therapist, and I was keeping a visual journal long before I ever taught one. What turned a private habit into a method was watching it work on other people. A woman who could not find a single word for what she was carrying would sit down with paper, glue and color, and by the end of the session she had said all of it.
That is what SoulPages is. Seven elements and a clear structure, simple enough to follow alone at your kitchen table on a Tuesday night, strong enough for a facilitator to hold a whole group with. Since 2016 I have been training facilitators in it, and my intention is not a small one: to bring this method to every place in the world that needs it. It changes lives, and I have watched it happen too many times to say it any more carefully than that.
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