Today, our daily lives are filled with fearful stimuli that cause stress, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, ADHD and other mental health disorders among both children and adults. ‘Color Your Eden', is a safe place to retreat and enjoy beautiful art that’s filled with positive messages. Why just ‘Count Your Blessings’, when you can ‘Paint it’? While adult print book sales hit a home run in 2015, since then, adult coloring book sales have seen a steady rise growing 2%+ year over year.
It’s been proven time and time again that coloring helps to relax your brain. When attention flows freely, away from negativity or the everlasting, ongoing to-do list that all adults carry with them on a daily basis, we allow ourselves to be open to new thoughts and creative thinking. When coloring and allowing oneself to take a break from the chaos of life, we concede to new aspects that won’t hit us if we’re too busy. Stillness allows for great ideas to come to us, which can help motivate us in work, school, and in life. Coloring for 20 minutes or more is an effective way to lower your heart rate and decrease feelings of anxiety. In the studies, coloring more intricate designs like mandalas was more effective than coloring in a plaid pattern or blank page.
I had a chance to interview Keisha (Kay) Sealey, author of Color Your Eden, a coloring book filled with mindful, positive affirmations for both adults and children. She highlights important attributes to coloring and how coloring isn’t just an outlet for children as so many people have used Color Your Eden to help themselves, regardless of age.
Keisha received her Associate in Advertising and Graphic Design from Columbus College of Art & Design, and then went on to also receive her Bachelor of Science in Advertising and Marketing from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She has helped many along their personal art journey.
Why did you create this book?
After 4 years of hosting and enjoying the experience of painting positive affirmations at our Paint Your Blessings venue in Brooklyn, NY, launching the Color Your Eden coloring books helps us to share this experience beyond the Brooklyn community to share with the world. Launching through Amazon helps to make the product accessible and cost-efficient as a wonderful gift to share with anyone for anyone old enough to read.
How can coloring be good for mental health?
Coloring is a fun and easy way to cause anyone to pause away from things and focus on coloring and designing something beautiful. Coloring Color Your Eden topics is an unassuming way to relax and destress and even meditate on the positive thoughts or messages, translated with color and a beautiful and original and beautiful composition that can be framed that can be served as a reminder of the beauty of positive thoughts translated as art on the wall for everyone to enjoy.
How can art and coloring be coping mechanisms for loss and stress?
Speaking personally, who lost my husband and best friend of 15 -17 years from the pandemic, besides traditional bereavement therapy, I found so much comfort in painting positive and hopeful messages from the bible. Painting Your Blessings reminds me of the many things to be grateful for, and sharing these good and positive messages with others provides comfort in a world surrounded by fear and uncertainty. Color Your Eden coloring book extends these positive messages on the walls as daily good morning comforting messages.
Why is it suitable even for people who don't consider themselves artists?
Quality-designed coloring books, from professional and educated fine artists such as Color Your Eden, pre-design artwork to be very approachable for people who don't consider themselves artists. The artwork outlines are already defined, and with Color Your Eden, we also show examples of the finished Paint Your Blessings painting as a coloring guide, but we encourage users to explore coloring their own Eden in designing their own masterpiece that makes the art theirs and something proud to share with others as framed art, which can be a proud conversational art piece and a daily reminder of the accessibility of art for non-artists.
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