The Color of Pain

Content Warning: Addiction, Death, Mental Health and RecoveryThe Color of PainThis breakdown explores how Chapter 3 of Blush Born serves as the bridge between the visceral trauma of my memoir, Shards of Hope, and the magical architecture of the fantasy found in The Shards of Color Saga.Let's DiscussIn the gray world, labels are used to maintain order and compliance. When Jethran leaves that world, he is left with a crisis of identity.Have you ever had a moment where you realized you were not the labels or diagnoses the world gave you? How did you begin to answer the question of who you are once those false names were stripped away?What's Next?Later today, I will post the text of Chapter 3 – The Color of Pain for you to read or listen to so you can experience the fully realized fantasy of this story.Next week -On Monday, I will post the breakdown of Chapter 4 Coloring with Kittens which gives Jethran a break from the trauma whole allowing him to experience another breakthrough in his power.On Wednesday, I will post the full text of Chapter 4On Friday, I will post an in-depth look into the Gray Order and how it maintains control over the populace.Birthday DealIn celebration of my 44th birthday coming up, I'm offering a 44% off for your first year subscription for monthly and yearly subscriptions. So that makes monthly subscriptions be around $3.90 and yearly subscriptions are $39. This deal lasts between now and February 18th.Don't Miss New ContentFind Your Colors is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Currently everything that I'm putting here on substack is free. When we reach Chapter 10 the paid content will begin. So if you like what you're hearing and find the story to be something that you relate to, please click that subscribe button so that you can get all the new content when it comes out. You can join as a free subscriber or coming soon there will be extra content for paid subscribers.If you know someone that you think might benefit from being a part of this journey with me, please feel free to share Find Your Colors on your socials.Find Your Colors is now available on Spotify for free! I'm just so glad to be back on podcasting again. If you have time, click the link below and go ahead and just give the show a quick follow because that immediately puts me in the stratosphere of being found on Spotify. Without follows it reaches no one. And if you can take a moment to rate the podcast because that gets me into the algorithm. And as always you can share the podcast with your friends. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit findyourcolors.substack.com/subscribe