💚 Color Medicine: Green — Healing, Balance, and the Frog Who Said It Best

Oct 2

Written By Tré Taylor & Bleep the tattoo

Green is the color of healing, balance, and renewal. tretaylor.com

🌲 My Green Medicine

Green is everywhere in my healing story.

Every three months, I make sure to be in nature — a different body of water, a forest, a park. The ocean’s turquoise waves, the redwoods’ musty pine smell, the emerald creeks up in Middletown, California at Harbin Hot Springs. That place was burned to the ground by wildfire — and yet, out of the ashes, new green life emerged. Phoenix green. Renewal green.

I need that. My nervous system needs that. The color green literally calms my whole being. Whether it’s Golden Gate Park this weekend for bluegrass, or the baseball diamond of the San Francisco Giants (that field is as holy as any cathedral), green fills me up.

Even food — juicing spinach, celery, apples, spirulina, blue-green algae, baby spinach in soups and stews — it’s medicine for my body and my mind. When I crave green, I know my soul is asking for balance and health.

Bleep: “I crave Jameson’s. But only on St. Patrick’s Day… or funerals. Same vibe, different levels of hydration.”

🧠 The Psychology of Green

Green is the color of the heart chakra (Anahata) — the center of love, compassion, and connection. Psychologists and color theorists link green with:

Balance & Harmony: Green sits in the middle of the spectrum, literally between warm and cool. It’s equilibrium.
Healing & Renewal: Hospitals often use green because it calms anxiety and signals recovery.
Nature & Growth: It’s the color of spring, life, new beginnings.
Generosity & Empathy: Green softens the nervous system, making us more open-hearted.

Carl Jung considered green to symbolize the “feeling function” — our ability to connect to values, people, and meaning.

🌑 The Shadow Side of Green

Of course, too much green can sour. Its shadow looks like:

Envy & Jealousy: “Green with envy” isn’t just a phrase. It’s the shadow of wanting what others have.
Stagnation: Too much green energy without movement can feel stuck, like swamp water.
Possessiveness: Love that tips into control.

Bleep: “So basically, green can heal you… or it can make you that person side-eyeing your neighbor’s Tesla like it stole your birthright.”

🍀 Green as Medicine

Green is grounding. It reminds us to breathe. It’s why parks, forests, and gardens are essential for mental health. Green foods cleanse the body, strengthen immunity, and provide minerals we can’t live without.

In design, green walls or accents reduce stress and increase focus. Even a plant in the corner of your room changes the vibe — literally filtering air, literally giving you life.

And yes, Kermit the Frog sang it: “It’s not easy being green.” But maybe being green is exactly what saves us.

Bleep: “Also, let’s not forget — Shrek is green. So healing, balance, and fart jokes can all coexist.”

🧘 Three Contemplative Questions

When you surround yourself with green — in nature, in food, in clothes — how does your body respond? Do you feel soothed, energized, jealous, or stuck?
Where in your life do you need more balance and renewal — and could adding green (literally or symbolically) help restore it?
What’s your relationship with the shadow of green — envy, control, stagnation — and how can you transform it into growth?
🌟 Final Word

Green is medicine. It’s the forest that calms your breath, the juice that restores your body, the ballpark field that makes you feel like a kid again. It’s love and envy, balance and stagnation, compassion and control.

If you’re drawn to green, your unconscious might be calling for healing and harmony. If you avoid it, maybe your heart chakra is asking for attention.

One thing’s for sure: green reminds us that we are alive, connected, and capable of renewal — even after the fire, even after the heartbreak, even after the season that scorched us.

Bleep: “And if all else fails, pour yourself a green smoothie… or a green beer. Both are healing in their own twisted way.”

🌈 Next up: Blue — calm seas, sky-wide peace, throat chakra truth, and a little bluegrass in Golden Gate Park.

Tré Taylor & Bleep the tattoo

Hi, I’m Tré Taylor — a mystic woman with a clown brain, a singer with a story, and a late-diagnosed neurodivergent who finally feels at home in her own skin. After a near-death experience, wild spiritual awakenings, and a lifetime of feeling like an alien on Earth, I’ve learned to heal through humor, music, art, and self-expression — no pills, just soul medicine.

This little corner of the internet is for the weirdos, misfits, rebels, and lone wolves who’ve ever felt “too much” or “not enough.” Here you’ll find true stories from my unusual life — some hilarious, some tender, all a little crazy — along with music, food, and creative sparks meant to make your heart lighter.

And you won’t just meet me… you’ll meet Bleep, my tattoo hand puppet with a swearing problem. He’s my comic relief and my partner in crime. Together, we’re here to say: you’re not alone. This is your safe space to laugh, heal, and shine out loud.