Colourful World Counselling Therapies

Colourful World Counselling Therapies We all need someone to talk to at some point in our lives but who do you turn to when you feel overwhelmed by your emotions? Call Colourful World

🌿 Payment Reminder – Please Read 🌿To help sessions run smoothly and to protect my time outside of work, all sessions mus...
30/01/2026

🌿 Payment Reminder – Please Read 🌿

To help sessions run smoothly and to protect my time outside of work, all sessions must be paid for in advance.

Unfortunately, repeated no-shows and chasing unpaid sessions take up time that should be spent with my family and on client care. To keep things fair and sustainable:

• Payment is required prior to your session
• Any session not paid at least 24 hours in advance will be cancelled
• This policy is outlined clearly in the handout provided at your first session

On the rare occasion that I need to cancel, a full refund will always be given.

Thank you for understanding and for respecting both my time and the therapeutic space we create together ❤️🌈

Sometimes people don’t need answers.They need understanding.When you’re overwhelmed, exhausted, or hurting, advice can f...
30/01/2026

Sometimes people don’t need answers.
They need understanding.

When you’re overwhelmed, exhausted, or hurting, advice can feel like pressure.
Solutions can feel like being asked to move on before you’re ready.

Often what helps most is something simpler:
Someone listening.
Someone staying.
Someone saying, “That makes sense.”

You don’t need fixing to be worthy of care.
You don’t need a silver lining to justify your pain.

Being seen and understood is regulating in itself especially after trauma, burnout, or long periods of holding things together.

🌿 Friday reminder:
If all you can do today is exist and be honest about how hard it’s been, that is enough.

If this resonates and you’d like support, I currently have therapy availability in Saline and Dunfermline.
Sessions are a calm, supportive space to be heard without pressure to feel better or have it all figured out.

You deserve to be understood. ❤️🌈

Life doesn’t become meaningful once the problems are gone.For many people especially those with trauma histories life ha...
29/01/2026

Life doesn’t become meaningful once the problems are gone.

For many people especially those with trauma histories life has never been tidy or predictable.
Waiting to feel “sorted” before allowing joy often means waiting forever.

You’re allowed moments of beauty while things are still messy.
You’re allowed relief, laughter, rest, and connection even if parts of your life are unresolved.

Healing isn’t about eliminating struggle.
It’s about learning how to live alongside it without losing yourself.

🌿 Gentle reminder:
You don’t have to have everything figured out to deserve a life that feels worth living.

If you’re navigating trauma, grief, anxiety, or burnout, therapy can be a place to make sense of things at your own pace without pressure to rush, fix, or perform healing.

You’re allowed to be in process and still have moments that feel good. ❤️🌈

Be gentle with the person in the mirror.If you’ve been through trauma, you may have learned to survive by being hard on ...
28/01/2026

Be gentle with the person in the mirror.

If you’ve been through trauma, you may have learned to survive by being hard on yourself.
Self-criticism and shame often feel safer than kindness especially when care wasn’t consistent or secure.

Loving yourself after trauma isn’t about confidence or “positive thinking.”
It’s about slowly unlearning the belief that you had to be different to deserve safety.

The person looking back at you has carried a lot.
And they’re still here.

Self-compassion doesn’t mean minimising pain or pretending everything is okay.
It means meeting yourself with the same steadiness you once needed from others.

🌿 Gentle reflection:
When you look in the mirror today, see someone who adapted, endured, and survived.
That matters.

If any of this resonates and you’re finding it hard to do alone, therapy can offer a calm, supportive space to explore this at your own pace without pressure, judgement, or expectation to “fix” anything.

You don’t have to carry it all by yourself. ❤️🌈

With C-PTSD, your breath learned survival before it learned safety.When trauma is repeated or prolonged, the nervous sys...
27/01/2026

With C-PTSD, your breath learned survival before it learned safety.

When trauma is repeated or prolonged, the nervous system doesn’t get a clear “end point.”
So the body stays alert scanning, bracing, holding its breath, or pushing air out too fast.

That constant tension isn’t anxiety for no reason.
It’s what happens when safety was unpredictable.

With C-PTSD, emotions don’t arrive neatly.
They come as tight chests, shallow breaths, sudden shutdown, or a feeling of being “too much” or “not here at all.”

Breath work isn’t about fixing you.
It’s about offering your nervous system something it didn’t get enough of: gentle regulation, without demand.

🌿 C-PTSD–safe grounding:
Notice your breath without changing it.
When it feels okay, lengthen the exhale slightly.
If counting feels stressful, don’t count. Control isn’t the goal — permission is.

Each slower out-breath is a quiet message to your body:
This moment is not the past.

Healing from C-PTSD is not about becoming calm all the time.
It’s about building more moments where your body doesn’t have to stay on guard.

And that is real work. ❤️🌈

Your exhaustion makes sense.TraumaIf you’ve lived through trauma, your nervous system learned to stay alert to survive.H...
26/01/2026

Your exhaustion makes sense.

Trauma

If you’ve lived through trauma, your nervous system learned to stay alert to survive.
Hyper-vigilance, emotional fatigue, shutdown, irritability, numbness these aren’t character flaws. They’re survival responses that once kept you safe.

Trauma doesn’t end when the event ends.
It lives in the body, in the startle response, in the constant scanning, in how tired you feel even on “good” days.

Needing rest isn’t weakness.
It’s your system asking for regulation after years of protection.

*Neurodivergence*

If you’re neurodivergent, the world often expects you to adapt constantly — to noise, pace, social rules, masking, productivity standards that weren’t built with your brain in mind.

That ongoing effort is exhausting.
Burnout, overwhelm, shutdown, and withdrawal aren’t signs you’re failing they’re signs you’ve been coping for too long without enough support.

You are not “too sensitive.”
You are responding accurately to an environment that demands more than it gives back.

🌱 Grounding for right now:
Place one hand on your chest. One on your stomach.
Breathe out slowly — longer than you breathe in — and remind yourself: I am allowed to pause.

You don’t need to justify your limits.
Your need for rest is real. ❤️🌈

Addiction and trauma both lie but in different ways.Addiction tells you you won’t survive this feeling without it.Trauma...
23/01/2026

Addiction and trauma both lie but in different ways.

Addiction tells you you won’t survive this feeling without it.
Trauma tells you you don’t deserve to survive it at all.

Neither is telling the truth.

What you’re experiencing in moments like this isn’t weakness — it’s a nervous system under pressure, reaching for what once helped it cope. The urge doesn’t mean you’ve failed. It means something inside you is asking for relief.

And here’s the crucial part:
Urges crest and fall. They do not last forever.
But shame makes them louder. Panic makes them feel urgent. Trauma makes them feel personal.

You don’t have to decide anything about tomorrow.
You don’t have to fix your life tonight.
You only have to get through this moment.

Breathing isn’t a cliché here it’s a way of buying time.
Time for the wave to pass.
Time for your nervous system to stand down.
Time for choice to return.

🫁 Right now:
Inhale through your nose for 4.
Exhale slowly for 6.
Repeat until the urge shifts even slightly.

You are not broken.
You are not undeserving.
And you are not required to believe the thoughts that show up when you’re overwhelmed.

This moment will pass.
And you are allowed to still be here when it does. ❤️🌈

Life isn’t either/or. And that truth can be uncomfortable and freeing.Many of us were taught that if something hurts, so...
22/01/2026

Life isn’t either/or. And that truth can be uncomfortable and freeing.

Many of us were taught that if something hurts, something must be wrong.
That if we’re struggling, we should fix it, push through it, or silence it.

But real emotional health isn’t about choosing joy instead of pain.
It’s about building the capacity to hold both.

You can love deeply and still grieve.
You can feel proud of yourself and still feel exhausted.
You can be healing and still have hard days.

This isn’t inconsistency it’s emotional maturity.

For people with trauma histories, the nervous system often searches for certainty:
good or bad, safe or unsafe, okay or not okay.
But life lives in the grey.
And learning to tolerate that “in-between” is a huge part of healing.

You don’t need to be positive to be okay.
You don’t need to minimise the hard to justify the good.
Both can exist without cancelling each other out.

🌀 Reflection prompt:
“What am I feeling right now — and what else is also true?”

Not instead.
Alongside.

Your life doesn’t have to be perfect to be meaningful.
It just has to be yours.

And that’s enough. ❤️🌈

When you place a hand on your chest and slow your breathing, you’re doing something very specific:you’re giving your ner...
21/01/2026

When you place a hand on your chest and slow your breathing, you’re doing something very specific:
you’re giving your nervous system a felt sense of safety.

Gentle, intentional self-touch activates the parasympathetic nervous system.
Slow breathing reduces threat signals.
Together, they send a clear message to the brain:
“I am here. I am not in danger.”

For many people with trauma histories, safety wasn’t taught it was absent.
So the body stays on alert, even when nothing is wrong.

This simple practice works because it bypasses logic and speaks directly to the body.

You don’t need to calm your thoughts first.
You regulate the body, and the mind follows.

🫀 Try this now:
Place one hand on your chest.
Inhale through your nose for 4.
Exhale slowly through your mouth for 6.
Repeat 5 times.

No forcing.
No positive thinking.
Just steady, kind presence.

Self-soothing is not self-indulgence.
It’s re-parenting the nervous system.

And sometimes, that’s the most therapeutic thing you can do. ❤️🌈

Falling back isn’t failure. It’s data.When old patterns show up, people often panic:“I thought I’d dealt with this.”“Why...
20/01/2026

Falling back isn’t failure. It’s data.

When old patterns show up, people often panic:
“I thought I’d dealt with this.”
“Why am I back here again?”

Here’s the truth most trauma survivors aren’t told:
awareness always comes before change.

Noticing a pattern while it’s happening means your nervous system is no longer running the show on autopilot. That pause — the moment of “oh, this again” is progress.

Healing is rarely a straight line.
It’s a spiral.
You revisit familiar places, but with more insight, more choice, and more capacity than last time.

Agitation often isn’t a sign you’re going backwards.
It’s a sign you’re catching the pattern earlier — before it fully takes over.

You don’t need to shame yourself out of old habits.
You need to notice, pause, and respond differently even if the difference is small.

🧠 Grounding check-in:
Ask yourself: “What do I need right now to feel 5% safer?”
Not fixed. Not calm. Just safer.

Self-awareness is not the end goal.
It’s the doorway.

And you’re already standing in it. ❤️🌈

It is always now. And that matters more than we realise.Trauma pulls us backwards.Anxiety drags us forwards.Both steal u...
19/01/2026

It is always now. And that matters more than we realise.

Trauma pulls us backwards.
Anxiety drags us forwards.
Both steal us from the only place where healing actually happens this moment.

The past isn’t happening anymore.
It lives as memories stored in the nervous system.
The future hasn’t arrived.
It exists as predictions, fears, and imagined outcomes.

But now?
Now is where your breath is.
Now is where your body is.
Now is where feeling, regulation, and change can occur.

The present moment doesn’t have to feel good to be useful.
It just has to be noticed.

Every time you come back to now, you interrupt survival mode.
You remind your nervous system that this moment is survivable.
And that’s how safety is rebuilt — one return at a time.

🌀 Grounding prompt:
Look around and name 3 things you can see, 2 things you can feel in your body, and 1 slow breath you can soften into.

You don’t need to fix the past.
You don’t need to control the future.
You just need to be here — gently, imperfectly, honestly.

That’s enough. ❤️🌈

Sometimes the breakdown isn’t the end.It’s the moment something finally has to change.For many people, the point they re...
18/01/2026

Sometimes the breakdown isn’t the end.
It’s the moment something finally has to change.

For many people, the point they reach out for therapy isn’t calm or clear.
It’s messy. Overwhelming. Exhausting.
Often it follows months sometimes years of coping, minimising, or surviving.

Breakdowns don’t mean you’re weak.
They usually mean you’ve been strong for too long without enough support.

Therapy isn’t about “fixing” you.
It’s about helping you understand the patterns you’ve been stuck in, the impact of what you’ve been through, and how to start responding differently with more choice and less self-blame.

You might be:
• repeating the same relationship patterns
• feeling anxious, numb, or emotionally flooded
• stuck in survival mode
• realising you can’t keep living the way you are

That moment of realisation matters.
It’s often where real change begins.

You don’t have to do it alone.
And you don’t have to have the right words before you start.

🌱 I currently have limited spaces for new clients.
If you’re ready to explore what’s underneath the overwhelm gently, at your pace you’re welcome to get in touch.

Your life doesn’t have to stay shaped by what hurt you.
Support can be the turning point. ❤️🌈

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24 Upper Kinneddar
Dunfermline
KY129TR

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 6:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 6:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 6:30pm
Thursday 9am - 6:30pm
Friday 9am - 5:30pm
Saturday 9am - 2pm

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+447875501239

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