Welcome to the World of Colors!

Unconditional Colors started long before I had the idea for it, when I was beginning to express myself through painting 9 years ago. Earlier that year, I had reached a breaking point. I was incredibly stressed and felt deeply disconnected from myself and so I reluctantly went to therapy for the first time. 

My therapist was incredible. She helped me to see things clearly very quickly, but that information about my traumas was overwhelming and I didn't really know how to start feeling like myself again. I had been suppressing my emotions for so many years. that I genuinely thought that my emotions didn't matter and that addressing them was a waste of time. 

At the time, I used logic to protect me, because it's the only thing I had learned could make me feel safe growing up with an abusive parent. Logic was something solid that could be proved, so it made me feel like I had some kind of ground when the abuse made me constantly doubt myself. 

When I started painting, I realised that my emotions had so much to teach me. I realised that my emotions could actually be beautiful and that my favorite paintings were the ones I felt the deepest emotion went into. This was my practice for several years, until in 2021 when I decided to take a break from painting to explore color more deeply. 

At that time, I realised that color is language, that each color has an effect on the mind, body, and spirit, and that I had been speaking that language for years without knowing. That's when I got the idea of Unconditional Colors and I opened up an Etsy page to sell sustainably made stationery with my artwork as the designs that I hadn't produced yet. I was just so excited that I had found clarity in regards to where I wanted to focus my attention in life. 

Then, later in 2021 I returned to Peru where I met a man who talked about how he found his life calling. He said that you should pay attention to the thing you talk about all the time, and for me that was color. That's when I decided that I wanted to really double down on color therapy, my stationery, and actually start a business because it seemed like such a scary thing to do. 

So in 2022, Unconditional Colors was up and running but I had no idea how to run a business! That year I focused on learning more about color therapy and I bought a color therapy light. Then, serendipity worked its magic and I met a girl who was hosting a retreat and she invited me to share about color therapy. We did 3 different retreats at that time, working with a total of 15 different people. This gave me the confirmation I was looking for, so I started an Instagram page. 

Within a couple weeks of sharing on Instagram, I started working with my first 1:1 client! And that's how this all came together. By trusting my intuition, taking my time, learning as much as possible, and sharing my joy. Thank you for reading this and being here, it's an honor to share this colorful journey with you! 

Feel free to get in touch anytime!

Working with our relationship with color helps us to play with reality. Since colors are reflections of pure light, they go beyond the mental chatter into deeply rooted experiences. Feelings. Unconscious associations. Tastes and distastes. 

Feeling into my relationship with color and using its light for healing and growth has helped me tremendously over many years, because whenever my mind was not serving me, I could see the color. I would ask, what color is this? 

Then, feeling into the color more deeply, how does this make me feel? 

Where can I sense this in my body? Where is this color needed? 

Am I blocking this color? What kind of associations do I have with it? 

This is a small glimpse into the process of opening that colors offer, as they help you to see more, feel more, and receive more of life.

Is there a certain color you refuse to wear? One that makes you uncomfortable? 

What has always been your "favorite" color? 

There is so much to explore in the world of colors, thank you for coming so far already! 

Hello! My name is Kelli Schmalenbach and I’ve created Unconditional Colors because painting intuitively and connecting with colors has helped me in tremendous ways. I’ve lived through several traumatic experiences and as much as I love to analyse and get to the bottom of my feelings, nothing has helped me as much in changing how I feel on a daily basis more than color and art therapy.

As time has passed, I realized that colors were coming up in many of my meetings and conversations with people. I decided to connect more with colors themselves apart from painting, and I was amazed to see such a small number of people talking about the power of color. Color is a fundamental language of nature, and as we connect with this language, we connect with life, our emotions, and the world around us in ways we may have never imagined. 

In my desire to live in a world where we all feel loving towards life and ourselves in all of our many expressions, I’ve created Unconditional Colors, because I mean hey, I discovered something that seriously changed my life, there’s no way I can keep it only to myself!