Seeing Beyond Sight: How Colour helped me reclaim my space in the world

For most of my life, I’ve lived in two parallel experiences: the visible one the world can observe, and the invisible one I quietly navigate every day.

I spent years building a successful career in leadership - confident, capable, outwardly thriving. Yet, behind the scenes, I was learning how to adapt to progressive sight loss, how to mask the parts that felt vulnerable, and how to remain “fine” even when I wasn’t. Like many people with a disability or long-term condition, I became skilled at carrying on, achieving, and pretending that the challenges didn’t touch me.

But they did.
They shaped me.
Eventually, they opened a door I never expected to walk through.

When I first discovered Colour Mirrors, I wasn’t looking for a spiritual practice. I was looking for a way to feel anchored again. To trust myself. To move through the world without shrinking.

Colour didn’t just speak to me ,it felt like it saw me.

Each bottle reflected something I was experiencing internally - my fear, my strength, my grief, my courage, my joy. It allowed me to explore emotions I had tucked away for years. Colour revealed parts of me I had forgotten, and parts I didn’t realise were waiting to surface.

Becoming a practitioner didn’t feel like a choice.
It felt like a remembering.

Alongside the colour work, Reiki gave me a new relationship with my body and energy. When sight becomes challenging, you learn to sense the world differently. Reiki strengthened that natural sensitivity, helping me tune into what my nervous system, intuition, and energy were quietly communicating.

It taught me a truth I now share with others.
Healing doesn’t always look like fixing something.
Sometimes it looks like coming home to yourself.

My leadership background is still a huge part of my work today.
I understand burnout.
I understand overwhelm.
I understand masking and the pressure to hold everything together.
I understand the courage it takes to ask for help ,or even to pause long enough to breathe.

But my lived experience of sight loss taught me something leadership never could…

We grow most when we allow ourselves to be seen ,not perfect, not polished, but real.

This is why I teach, coach, and hold space the way I do today. I’m passionate about accessibility, inclusion, personal empowerment, and helping people understand their own potential — not the version they perform, but the version they quietly long to step into.

Whether I am supporting someone through Colour Mirrors, Reiki, or an ADHD coaching conversation, my intention is always the same,to help people feel…

more grounded,
more understood,
more capable,
and more themselves.

Colour has an extraordinary ability to unlock what words sometimes can’t.
Reiki softens what tension tries to protect.
And lived experience reminds us that every obstacle carries a teaching.

If my journey has shown me anything, it’s this…

We don’t move forward by pretending to have perfect vision.
We move forward by trusting our inner sight.