Unlocking the Secrets to Success in Holistic Wellness – Exclusive Interview with Kath Roberts

Kath Roberts is a trained colour therapist, systems coach, author, and international teacher who uses the transformative power of colour to balance energy, restore harmony, and ignite new ways of being. With a background in leadership for an FTSE 200 company and over 37 years of experience in sales, consultancy, and people development, she bridges spiritual wisdom and science to facilitate true understanding of how we operate, mind, body, and spirit.

Kath Roberts, Coach, Colour Teacher & Author

Who is Kath Roberts?

As a child, Kath was endlessly curious, constantly asking "why?" This insatiable quest to get to the bottom of things, to truly understand how we work and what makes us thrive, has shaped her life's work. With over 37 years of experience spanning leadership in an FTSE 200 company, sales, and consultancy, she bridges the everyday business world with the invisible metaphysical realm, bringing a rare integration of hard-won corporate wisdom and deep spiritual understanding.

Today, Kath is an international colour therapist and teacher, systems coach, and author who helps creative entrepreneurs, coaches and conscious leaders unlock their innate potential by integrating what they know, who they are, and what they do. Co-author of Colourful Boardrooms and The Nature of Us, she facilitates profound transformation in individuals, groups and businesses. Her work reveals that true brilliance emerges not just from intellectual knowledge, but from the dance between our mind's emotional body wisdom and spiritual intelligence. With one foot in strategy and one in soul, Kath creates space and provides the appropriate structure, so transformation moves from the inside out with ease and grace.

You talk about one foot in the everyday business world and one foot in the invisible metaphysical world. How do you help clients navigate between these two realms?

I think this is where my greatest value lies, I speak both languages fluently. I understand profit and loss, strategy and structure, targets and timelines. But I also understand energy, consciousness, systemic patterns, and the invisible forces that shape our reality. Most people live in one world or the other. I help them integrate both.

In practical terms, this means I can sit with a business owner and look at their revenue plateau through multiple lenses simultaneously. Yes, we might need to adjust their pricing strategy or refine their offer. But we're also exploring: What's your relationship with receiving? Where did you learn that asking for money makes you greedy? What ancestral pattern around scarcity is playing out here?

The magic happens when we address both the visible and invisible together. You can have the most brilliant business strategy in the world, but if your nervous system is in survival mode, or you're unconsciously committed to staying small, or you're carrying an inherited belief that success equals betrayal then no strategy will work sustainably.

I help people see that these aren't separate worlds. They're one interconnected system. And when you bring consciousness to the whole system, transformation becomes natural rather than forced.

You help people actualise their gifts and creative force. What prevents most people from expressing their true gifts in the world?

Fear. Plain and simple. But it's rarely the obvious fear of failure that people think it is. It's much more subtle and insidious than that. It's the fear that if you truly shine, you'll be rejected. That if you claim your power, you'll be alone. That if you succeed, you'll somehow betray the people you love who didn't get to succeed. These aren't rational fears, they're deeply embedded patterns, often formed in childhood or inherited through family systems.

I see so many talented people who unconsciously dim their light because being fully expressed wasn't safe in their family of origin. Maybe brilliance meant you were "showing off" or "too big for your boots." Maybe success meant you'd outgrow your tribe and lose belonging. Maybe visibility meant you became a target for criticism or envy.

There's also the weight of conditioning, all the "shoulds" we've absorbed about what we're supposed to do, who we're supposed to be, what constitutes "real" work or "legitimate" success. People spend decades chasing someone else's definition of achievement while their true gifts sit dormant, waiting.

And then there's perfectionism, the belief that your gift must be flawless before you share it. That you must have it all figured out. That you need more training, more time, more proof that you're "ready." This is just fear wearing a productive-looking mask.

The truth is that your gifts aren't asking for perfection. They're asking for permission. Permission to be seen, to be expressed, to take up space in the world. And that permission can only come from you.

Colour therapy isn't widely understood. How does colour work as a transformational tool, and what makes it so powerful?

Colour is the language of the soul. It bypasses the rational mind and speaks directly to something deeper within us, our energy, our emotions, our consciousness itself.

We all have visceral responses to colour. You walk into a room painted a certain shade and you feel something, perhaps calm, energized, unsettled or inspired. That's not random. Colour operates at a vibrational frequency that our entire being responds to, not just our eyes. Every colour carries specific energetic qualities and correlates to different aspects of our physical, emotional, and spiritual experience.

What makes colour so powerful as a transformational tool is that it reveals what we can't or won't say. When someone chooses certain colours in a reading, they're not just picking pretty shades, they're showing me exactly what's going on beneath the surface. The colours they're drawn to, the colours they avoid, the combinations that appear, all of this tells a story about where they are, what they're working through, and what wants to emerge.

I use the Colour Mirrors system, which works with over 100 bottles of coloured oils and essences. Each bottle relates to specific themes, chakras, life lessons and aspects of consciousness. When clients select their bottles, it's like holding up a mirror to their soul. Suddenly, things they've been trying to articulate for years become crystal clear. I get comments like "Yes, that's exactly how I'm feeling, how did you know?"

I didn't know. The colour knew. Their soul knew. Colour gave us the language to make the unconscious conscious. And here's what's extraordinary: colour doesn't just reveal, it transforms. Working with specific colours through the oils, meditations, visualization, or simply bringing conscious awareness to them creates energetic shifts. It helps balance what's out of harmony, activate what's dormant, and then integrate what's been fragmented. It's gentle, yet profoundly effective.

If someone is reading this and feeling stuck, whether in their business, their creativity, or their sense of purpose, where should they start?

Start with the body. Not your mind, not your strategy, not another course or book. Your body. Your body already knows what's wrong. It's been trying to tell you through that knot in your stomach, that tension in your shoulders, that exhaustion no amount of sleep fixes, that anxiety that spikes at certain times. We've become so disconnected from our bodies' wisdom, living entirely in our heads, that we've forgotten how to listen.

So, begin there. Sit quietly and do a body scan. Where are you holding tension? Where does your energy feel stuck? Where does it feel open and alive? Don't try to fix anything yet just notice. Just listen. Your body is giving you real-time feedback about what's really happening beneath all your stories and strategies.

Then ask yourself a simple but profound question: What do I already know that I'm pretending not to know?

We usually know. We know the relationship isn't working. We know the business model doesn't fit who we are. We know we're saying yes when we mean no. We know we're chasing someone else's dream. But we've gotten so good at overriding that knowing with rationalization, with fear, with "but I should" or "but I can't."

Write down what comes up. Don't edit it. Don't make it logical. Just let the truth speak. And then, and this is crucial, take one small action aligned with that truth. Not a massive overhaul. Not burning everything down. Just one small step that honours what you know. That's how change begins. Not with grand plans, but with tiny acts of integrity with yourself.

If you need support in this, and most of us do, reach out. Work with someone who can help you see what you can't see alone, who can hold space for your becoming, who understands that transformation isn't about fixing you but about revealing you.

You bridge spiritual wisdom and science. How do you help sceptical, analytically minded people open to these deeper dimensions of themselves?

I meet them where they are. I don't ask anyone to abandon their analytical mind or adopt beliefs that don't resonate with them. Instead, I show them how science and spirituality are pointing to the same truths from different angles.

The analytically minded person often responds beautifully to understanding the neuroscience behind transformation. We can talk about neuroplasticity, how your brain literally rewires based on your thoughts and experiences. We can discuss polyvagal theory and how your nervous system state affects everything from your decision-making to your capacity for connection. We can explore quantum physics and how observation affects reality, or epigenetics and how consciousness influences gene expression.

These aren't woo-woo concepts. They're established science. And they validate what spiritual traditions have taught for millennia: that consciousness creates reality, that everything is interconnected, that we have far more agency over our experience than we've been taught to believe.

I also let the work speak for itself. When someone does a colour reading and sees their entire life story reflected back to them through the bottles they chose, when patterns they've never articulated suddenly become crystal clear, that's not something I'm making up. That's their own wisdom revealing itself through a different language.

The key is showing people that opening to deeper dimensions doesn't mean abandoning discernment or critical thinking. It means expanding what you're willing to consider. It means recognizing that your rational mind, as brilliant as it is, isn't the only source of intelligence available to you.

I also share my own journey. I came from the corporate world. I understand the scepticism because I had it too. But I kept encountering things that my rational mind couldn't explain away, patterns too consistent to be coincidence, shifts too profound to be placebo, wisdom too accurate to be guesswork. Eventually, I had to admit there was more happening here than my current framework can account for. Maybe I need to expand my framework.

That's what I invite people into, not blind faith, but curious exploration. Try it. See what happens. Let your direct experience inform you rather than dismissing something because it doesn't fit your current belief system.

The most sceptical people often become the most profound practitioners once they experience these deeper dimensions for themselves. Because it's not about believing, it's about knowing. And you can only know through direct experience.

Many creatives and entrepreneurs struggle with the "start-stop-shame" cycle. Why do you think this pattern is so common, and how do you help people break free from it?

This pattern is so common because we're carrying wounds around creativity that go deep, often back to childhood, sometimes even generationally. Think about it: How many of us had our early creative expressions celebrated unconditionally? More often, we learned that creativity was only acceptable if it was good enough, if it fit certain standards, if it was practical or marketable or impressive. We learned that our value was tied to the outcome, not the expression itself.

So, we internalized this belief that our creativity must earn its right to exist. It must be perfect before we share it. It must guarantee success. It must prove we're talented, worthy, legitimate. That's an impossible standard. So, we start with inspiration, hit the wall of our own impossibly high expectations, get paralyzed by fear of judgment or failure, and stop. Then we shame ourselves for stopping, which reinforces the belief that we're not good enough, which makes it even harder to start again.

There's also often a deeper fear underneath: What if I complete this and it's good and then I have to be visible? What if people see me? What if I succeed and everything changes? What if I fail and everyone sees? Both success and failure feel threatening when you haven't healed your relationship with being seen.

Breaking free from this cycle requires addressing multiple layers. First, we must identify and challenge the beliefs driving the pattern. Where did you learn that creativity has to be perfect? What would it mean to create something "imperfect" and share it anyway? What are you afraid of?

Then we work with the nervous system. Often, the start-stop pattern is a nervous system response. Creating and sharing triggers your survival mechanisms because somewhere in your history, visibility or expression wasn't safe. We need to help your nervous system feel safe enough to stay in the creative process, even when it feels vulnerable.

We also reframe what creativity is for. It's not for proving your worth or earning validation or becoming famous. It's for expression, for connection. For offering your unique medicine to the world. When you release the pressure of outcome and reconnect with the joy of creating itself, everything softens.

In The Creative Edge, we create a container where it's safe to be in process, to be imperfect, to be learning. We work with structure, so you have practical frameworks and accountability, and flow, so you're not forcing or performing. We address the internal blocks while supporting the external completion of your work.

And crucially, we help people understand that finishing and sharing isn't about having it perfect. It's about letting your work be received. Your half-finished book isn't helping anyone. Your unlaunched course isn't creating transformation. Your unexpressed gift isn't serving the world. The people who need what you have to offer don't need it to be perfect. They need it to exist.

After substantial years of this work, what's the most important thing you've learned about human transformation?

That it's not about becoming someone new; it's about remembering who you've always been beneath the conditioning. Every person I've worked with already has everything they need within them. My job isn't to fix or add anything. It's to help them clear away what's blocking their own brilliance. Transformation isn't acquisition. It's revelation.

For someone listening to this who feels that resonance, that inner knowing that says, 'this is what I've been looking for,' what would you say to them? And what's the best way for them to take that first step with you?

If something in our conversation has stirred something in you, if you're feeling that pull toward living more consciously, actualizing your gifts, or finally creating the work you're here to do then I invite you to listen to that. That resonance isn't random. It's your soul recognizing itself in these words. It's your deeper wisdom saying "Yes, this is the way."

The first step is always honouring that inner yes. Not overthinking it. Not talking yourself out of it. Just acknowledging something here is true for me. From there, you have options. If you're a creative, entrepreneur, coach, or healer with something you're ready to bring to life, The Creative Edge programme beginning January 14th might be your perfect container. It's four months of structure and flow, community and guidance, to help you complete and share your soul-led work.

If you're looking for more personalized support, I offer one-to-one coaching where we can dive deep into your specific patterns, wounds, and gifts using colour therapy, systemic coaching, and whatever modalities serve your unique journey.

You can also explore Soul Path Readings, which use colour to reveal exactly where you are and what wants to emerge. Sometimes that clarity alone is the catalyst that shifts everything.

The best way to connect is through my website. You can explore the different ways we might work together, sign up for my newsletter to stay connected, or reach out directly.

But here's what I really want you to hear: your business, your creativity, your life, they're all mirrors showing you what's ready to transform. The question is: are you ready to look? If the answer is yes, I'm here. Let's begin.

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