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"The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color."
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From Pain to Palette: How Color Became My Healing Language
By Nixxie Duhh
My journey with mental health has been layered — navigating anxiety, depression, and the challenges of facing them.For a long time, the world felt heavy, and I often wondered how I would ever find balance again.
The answer arrived through color!
What started as simple sketches and coloring quickly became more than a pastime. Each shade carried its own energy, and with every stroke, I was rewriting my story.
Art became my way to survive anxiety and depression from all the past abuse.
Lavender for calm — a soft reminder to breathe and let go.
Pastel green for balance — proof that growth can happen in unexpected places.
Bubblegum pink for joy — the playful spark that reminded me life could still be sweet.
Color became my language when words weren’t enough or when I couldn't speak physically. It gave me space to transform pain into something tangible, bright, and full of possibility.
NixxieDuhhStudio was born from late nights of creating, experimenting, and channeling every feeling into something visual.
The Y2K-inspired palettes, bold fonts, and nostalgic energy all came from a desire to turn struggle into style, and heaviness into light.
The Y2K-inspired palettes, bold fonts, and nostalgic energy all came from a desire to turn struggle into style, and heaviness into light.
Healing doesn’t erase hard chapters — it remixes them into something that still plays, still shines, and still inspires.
This first issue of NixxieDuhhStudio Magazine is more than art; it’s proof that creativity can save you.![]()
Even the darkest shades can glow when they’re part of the bigger picture.
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Art became my way to survive. What began as a way to quiet my mind grew into a journey of healing, teaching me how color can restore balance, spark joy, and reconnect us with ourselves.
Through every piece. I learned that creativity isn’t just expression—it’s resilience.
Color Healing:

Mood Palettes to Try
Retro Calm: Lavender, powder blue, silver
Sweet Escape: Bubblegum pink, pastel green, sunshine yellow
Power Up: Neon lime, electric blue, hot magenta
Nixxie’s Note:
Nixxie’s Note:
Healing doesn’t have to be serious. Let color be playful. Even small choices — the shade you paint your nails or the sticker you place on your laptop — can shift your mood and energy.
GREEN—AND ITS HEALING HUES
Green correlates to the beauty and healing capacities of nature. It is also the color of the emotional and spiritual heart. When seen in the auric field, green usually represents a state of balance or growth leading to positive change. It also corresponds to the love of others—people, animals, and nature.
Bright emerald green: Strong healing capabilities; a love-centered person.
Yellow-green: Creativity stemming from the heart, heart-centered communication
Dark or muddy forest green: Jealousy, resentment, a victim mentality; blaming self or others; insecurity and low self-esteem; lack of personal responsibility; sensitive to perceived criticism and defensiveness
Turquoise: A wise healer, counsel, or therapist; compassionate; corresponds to the immune system.
Green is relaxing and helps to alleviate anxiety and depression. It represents harmony with nature (inner and outer nature) and is deeply soothing to the body and mind. Green is useful in helping to relieve almost any physical ailment or emotional disruption. In addition to aiding the heart, green is also soothing for the lungs.
PINK—AND ITS HEALING HUES
Pink combines all the energetic and spiritual qualities of red and white.
The specific shade of pink in a subtle body gives you specific information:
Bright and light pink: loving, tender, sensitive, sensual, artistic, pure, compassionate, affectionate, romantic; can indicate clairaudience.
Dark and murky pink: immature, shallow, dishonest Pink for use in healing. Pink is used for healing grief, sadness, and a feeling of separation from the Divine. It helps to connect us with our feelings and can restore youthfulness.
Pink can also be used to relieve tension (both muscle tension and stressful thoughts) and suppress an overstimulated appetite.
PURPLE—AND ITS HEALING HUES
Purple is the color of deep feeling arising from intuitive sensitivity. Correlated with the third eye and the pituitary gland, purple is the color of visual intuition and spiritual insight. It often represents positive and powerful transformation.
Violet: Psychic power, attunement with the higher self, idealism born of vision, being a visionary; art and magic of a spiritual nature; relates to the pineal gland and nervous system.
Lavender: Imagination, intuitive vision, etheric energies, daydreaming.
Indigo: Spiritual philosophy, contemplation; increases subtle perceptions of psychic realities Purple for use in healing.
Inviting spiritual renewal and inner peace, purple is a potent color for breaking through delusion, denial, and addictions.
Purple is also good for alleviating migraines and moving through sadness into empowerment.
RED—AND ITS HEALING HUES
The lowest vibrational color, red has the most tangible impact on the physical body and relates to the heart. Depending on various factors, red can either attract or repel money and material possessions, and impact our overall sense of safety and security. When out of balance, red relates to money worries, anger, anxiety, and obsessions.
Clear red: Powerful, energetic, competitive, sexual, passionate.
Deep red: Grounded, realistic, active, strong-willed, determined, survival-oriented.
Muddied red: Angry, irritated; internalized criticism or blame, which can be projected on others.
Orange-red: Confident; creative power Red for use in healing. Red increases our heart rate and improves our circulation, respiration, and blood pressure. It stimulates the appetite, boosts brain-wave activity, and nourishes the sexual glands. In general, red provides healing energy and warmth to counterbalance colds and flu and feelings of chilliness, fatigue, lethargy, and passivity. In its pure state, red can nourish a healthy ego.
ORANGE—AND ITS HEALING HUES
Orange corresponds to the reproductive organs, sexual expression, emotions, and creativity. It is the color of vitality, vibrancy, vigor, and good health. It is the color of energy, enthusiasm, stamina, creative productivity, adventurousness, and courage.
Orange-yellow: Intelligent, detail-oriented, perfectionist, scientific, creative.
Orange for use in healing. Orange can be used to stimulate appetite and the digestive system. A color of warmth, cheer, and excitement, orange is useful for addressing apathy, melancholy, and depression. Orange also has a freeing influence on the psyche, alleviating feelings of shyness, introversion, and constriction, as well as relieving repression.
YELLOW—AND ITS HEALING HUES
Yellow is the color of positive life energy, inspiration, awakening, intelligence, action, play, optimism, and ease.
Light or pale yellow: Hope and optimism; positive excitement about new ideas; psychic and spiritual awareness.
Bright lemon-yellow: power struggles and working to maintain control in a personal or business relationship; fear of losing control, prestige, respect, and influence.
Dark brownish-yellow: Mental strain, overanalyzing, mental fatigue and stress; “cramming” for a test or overworking to meet a deadline.
Yellow for use in healing. Yellow energizes, improves memory, relieves depression, and stimulates the appetite.
It helps to balance the nervous system and stimulate the mind (including the subtle energies of mind). In traditional Chinese medicine, yellow stimulates Spleen meridian chi. Gold is related to yellow.
BLUE—AND ITS HEALING HUES
Blue is a cooling and calming color. It relates to loving care guided by intuitive sensitivity. Blue correlates to the throat and communication that integrates physical sensing with higher knowing.
Soft blue: Intuitive, peaceful; clarity and truthfulness in communication.
Bright Royal blue: Clairvoyant; strong spiritual nature; generosity; indicates that one is on the right path or new opportunities are coming.
Dark or muddy blue: Fear of the future; fear of facing or speaking the truth; fear of self-expression (especially verbal self-expression)
The calming effects of blue can be used to decrease respiration, lower blood pressure, or cool fever and inflammatory reactions.
Blue can help to relieve headaches, as well as to balance or heal the thyroid. The astringent nature of blue can help to break up congestion and lymphatic stagnation. On the emotional level, blue calms strong emotions like anger, aggression, hysteria, or general overwhelm.
Silver
Silver, signifies the awakening of the cosmic mind. It is also the color of spiritual and physical abundance.
Bright metallic silver indicates receptivity to new ideas based on intuitive sensing.
Dark or muddy gray relates to blocked energies, guardedness, or a residue of fear that may have accumulated in the body and holds the potential for health problems, especially if gray clusters are seen in specific areas of the body.
Gold
Gold, is the color of enlightenment and divine protection. When observed within the auric field, gold indicates that a person is being guided toward their highest good. It is the color of the spiritual mind and intuitive thinking, inner knowing, and high wisdom.
A bright and shiny metallic gold correlates to an inspired person whose energy is activated and whose power is awakened.
Black
Black, is a transformative color, whether for the betterment or detriment of a person. It draws or pulls energy to it and, in so doing, transforms that energy. It captures light and consumes it. It can indicate long-held resentment and blame toward another, which can collect in a specific area of the body and manifest as a health challenge. If it appears in the ovaries, black can also correlate to unreleased grief from abortions. Also, it can indicate a past-life wound or an entity within the auric field.
White
White reflects a pure state of light and the spiritual, transcendent, etheric, and nonphysical qualities of the higher dimensions. It relates to angelic qualities, such as purity and truth. It can also represent a new, positive, and not-yet-designated energy within the auric field.
Earth colors and earth tones
Earth tones correlate to soil, wood, minerals, plants, and an essential groundedness. This palette of colors indicates a love of the earth and is often seen in those who work outdoors and live “close to the earth”—farmers, avid gardeners, construction workers, park rangers, for example. These colors are generally indicative of a positive connection to the natural world.
Rainbows
Rainbows in Hawaiian shamanism, signal the presence of the soul. Rainbow images in the energy body, such as rainbow beams streaming from the hands, head, or body, can signify a healer (such as a Reiki healer), a star person, or someone who is experiencing their first incarnation on earth.
Pastels
As unique blendings of color and light, represent sensitivity, sometimes on the emotional level and sometimes on an intuitive level. Pastel colors appearing in the auric field can also indicate the need for peace, serenity, and kindness.
COLOR HEALING : TWELVE TECHNIQUES
The following color-healing tips and techniques can stand alone or be used to augment a broader plan of healing.
Transfer color energy from an object.
You can perform healing with gemstones, colored water, or other natural substances that are the appropriate healing color. Hold the colored substance in your hand and energetically transfer negative energies into that substance; then energetically send the positive energies of the color into yourself as a replacement for the unhealthy energies.
Create gem essences based on color.
Selecting gemstones with the appropriate healing properties and color, create a gem essence using the process.
GEMSTONE ESSENCES
Gemstone essences are vibrational infusions, carrying the most potent level of the healing properties of gemstones and crystals.
The frequencies and attributes of the stone, when blended with water and sunlight or moonlight, and then infused with your intention, create a potent, customized remedy. Most often, gemstone essences, like flower essences, are taken orally. Drops can be placed on or under the tongue from a dropper. These essences also work well topically and can be absorbed through the skin by osmosis. Apply essences to any part of the body that is calling for healing. Additionally, gemstone essences are also good in baths and can be mixed with massage oils.
To make a gemstone essence:
1.Choose a gemstone that holds the appropriate healing properties.
2.After washing the stone, put it into a glass bottle of water.
3.Program the water with your healing intention.
4.For an essence that will heal presenting issues, place the bottle in the sun for two to four hours. For an essence that will heal subconscious issues, place it in the moonlight overnight.
5.After its time in the sun- or moonlight, the essence will be ready to use. You can leave it in the larger glass bottle or distribute it into small bottles with droppers.
Note: Moonstone should not be used as a gem essence.
Note: While gemstone essences are made from stones’ subtle energies, gem elixirs typically incorporate actual ground stones.
Elixirs should not be made without expert instruction and guidance, as ingesting some stones is dangerous.
Drink colored water.
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Use “solarization” to program drinking water with a color’s healing frequency. Place a glass bottle of water over a colored paper, cloth, or piece of cellophane and expose both to sunlight for an hour. Drinking the color-charged water will imbue your energy body with the color’s healing frequency.
Use colorpuncture.
Visualize a needed color flowing into an acupoint while you press on that point.
Use a pendulum to find healing colors.
Use a pendulum to determine what colors are appropriate for your healing situation.
Pendulum work, also called dowsing, by using yes-no questions, you can ask the pendulum to tell you if specific colors would be beneficial or not. Hold a pendulum over a color wheel and ask it to swing toward the most beneficial color.
Muscle test to assess colors.
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Use muscle testing to ask your body, which colors need to be released and which need to be accentuated or brought into the system.
Apply colored light.
You can apply colored light directly to the physical or subtle body by directing a light source (sunlight, a light globe, or light bulb) through some kind of transparent or semi-transparent filter material, such as glass, light fabric, a crystal, or cellophane in a suitable healing color. For example, having determined which color you need, expose an area of your body or energetic anatomy to a beam of sunlight shining through a window covered in cellophane of the selected color. If working with bare skin, expose yourself for no more than fifteen minutes.
Use the grab-bag technique.
Assemble a bag of colored glass beads, marbles, or tumbled stones. Holding in your awareness the physical, emotional, or mental healing or balancing you would like, place your hand in the bag, blindly feeling around until your fingers sense or feel the right object—the one with exactly the color you need. Carry the object with you for a few hours or days, as you feel guided to.
Wear your color remedy.
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Intuitively assess which color(s) will promote the healing or balancing you desire, and dress in the color you need. By wearing the necessary color for a day, you infuse yourself with that color and its healing properties. Color your world.
Surround yourself with the colors that uplift and inspire you and those that calm and soothe you.
Nixxie Duhh,
is the creative force behind NixxieDuhhStudio. A brand specializing in Y2K-inspired stickers, prints, and bold apparel.
By blending colors, dreamy vibes, and playful aesthetics, their work celebrates self-expression and the healing of creativity in everyday life.
Nixxie Duhh
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