About Color Your Story Onto Mine

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A Creative Bridge to Healing, Connection, and Clinical Care

At Color Your Story Onto Mine (CYSOM), we believe healing begins the moment someone feels seen. The CYSOM Method—also known as Social Artistry for Mental Health—is a nonclinical, arts-based trauma intervention designed to open hearts, build emotional resilience, and gently prepare individuals for the deeper work of therapy, recovery, and personal transformation.

Founded by Violet Newborn, a survivor, artist, and advocate, the CYSOM Method integrates creative expression, storytelling, spiritual reflection, and emotional literacy to help individuals name their pain, reclaim their power, and connect with others in a safe, nonjudgmental space.

Social artistry for mental health is not therapy, but it often makes therapy possible. This method uses the universal language of art—visuals, journaling, movement, metaphor, and story—as a culturally relevant, trauma-informed entry point for people who may feel disconnected from traditional mental health care.

Many participants have never spoken their truth aloud. Some have survived deep trauma, incarceration, addiction, or abandonment. Others simply carry invisible wounds they've never had words for.

In our circles, they find voice, value, and vision.

• Builds Trust & Safety
  Creates a sacred space where people feel respected and emotionally safe—often for the first time in years.
  
  
• Promotes Emotional Literacy
  Helps participants identify, name, and regulate emotions through accessible tools like the Emotional Vocabulary Wheel, storytelling prompts, and expressive arts.
  
  
• Restores Identity & Hope
  Uses art and reflection to reconnect people with their inherent worth, spiritual voice, and resilience.
  
  
• Catalyzes Help-Seeking Behavior
  Encourages participants to take the next step—whether that’s therapy, peer support, substance use recovery, or reconciliation with loved ones.
  
  

The CYSOM Method does not replace licensed therapy. Instead, it:

• Prepares people emotionally for the vulnerability required in therapy or recovery groups
  
  
• Supports reentry and post-treatment engagement through creative aftercare
  
  
• Reaches underserved populations—including incarcerated individuals, faith communities, and survivors of trauma—who may not trust clinical systems
  
  
• Collaborates with licensed providers to create a continuum of care
  
  

“I felt safe enough to say things I never thought I’d say. Now I want help. I want to heal.”
—Participant, Mark H. Luttrell Correctional Facility

• Correctional & Reentry Settings
  
  
• Transitional Housing & Shelters
  
  
• Churches & Faith-Based Recovery Programs
  
  
• Youth Groups & Community Circles
  
  
• Conferences, Retreats, and Schools
  
  

• Healing Circles using journaling, group dialogue, and visual metaphors
  
  
• Emotion Mapping & Artistic Reflection Tools
  
  
• Spiritual Integration through prayer, praise, and purpose-driven storytelling
  
  
• Themed Journals from the Color Your Story Onto Mine series
  
  
• Facilitator Trainings for peer mentors, faith leaders, and community partners
  
  

We welcome collaboration with:

• Therapists & Mental Health Providers
  
  
• Faith Leaders & Recovery Coaches
  
  
• Reentry Coordinators
  
  
• Grantmaking Agencies & School Districts
  
  

Together, we can offer a bridge of belonging that helps people move from isolation to connection, and from coping to healing.

We’re currently seeking partners, funders, and institutions ready to bring the CYSOM Method into their communities.

Let’s build the bridge—from trauma to truth, from silence to story, and from brokenness to belonging.

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