Welcome! Before you jump into the videos, you’ll need to complete one piece of prework that will help everything else make sense: a basic understanding of how your brain constructs emotions.

Learn why Chelsea wanted to create an accessible emotional exploration tool to help people visualize and understand their internal world.

Before you learn more about the tool, let’s cover what Color Mending IS and what it helps you to do, and what it is NOT.

An in-depth overview of neuroscience Color Mending Therapy was built on: The Theory of Constructed Emotions

A closer look at how your brain uses 3 key data points to construct all of your emotions.

A brief overview of your external and internal sensory systems, and the importance of affective interoception, the sensory system your brain primarily uses to construct your emotions.

Physical and mental actions you can take to improve your accuracy in labeling your body sensations.

How to use Color Mending Therapy to identify the mental models your body and mind are ready to update.

Learn how Color Mending was specifically designed to help people build their interoceptive awareness.

Let’s look at the 7 main reasons people avoid or resist updating their mental models and choose to stay in emotional suffering.

The last thing you’ll learn before we begin coloring together are the 4 principles of Color Mending.

Get ready to color together! We’ll review what supplies you need, and review the 7 steps of a Color Mending Therapy session.

Chelsea guides you through how to select what to color about. You’ll be using the guidance to select something to color about today.

Now that you have selected what to color about, let’s do a body scan! Learn what body scans are and how to do them.

This step is when you take the noise that you found in your body scan and color it out onto a piece of paper using any shape and color you want.

After you complete your coloring, take a minute to jot down any notes about how you colored your coloring. Chelsea also provides several tips and tricks for making coloring feel more second-nature.

Chelsea guides you through coloring your second coloring.

After you complete your second coloring, take a few minutes to notice and write down details about how you colored and what you observe in your coloring that could be helpful when you interpret it.

Chelsea explains what t-charts are and how you can use them to help you efficiently interpret your coloring.

Learn what muscle testing is, why I chose to incorporate muscle testing in Color Mending, and how you can use it to interpret your coloring.

Learn how to muscle test on yourself to interpret your own colorings.

Learn about the resources Chelsea used to put together the Color Chart, and how to use the chart to interpret your coloring.

Take a few minutes to use the Color Chart to interpret all of the colors you listed in your t-chart.

Learn what resources Chelsea used to create the Common Shapes Chart, and how to use it to interpret your coloring.

Take a few minutes to interpret the shapes in your coloring to gather even more clues about what message your coloring is trying to deliver to you.

Let’s review 2 of the most frequently asked questions when it comes to interpreting your coloring: when do you include the color white in the interpretation, and when do you use the number chart?

Before beginning the next set of videos, complete the following coloring activities over the next 1-2 weeks. After completing the activities, you’ll meet with Chelsea 1:1 for individualized feedback to enhance your coloring practice!