“[Please] tell your own story. This is the most important thing we can do for each other—to know each other through stories. And I hope so much that whoever you are, listening right now, you are able to do what you love—[and] to be, also, the unique person you are.” -Gloria Steinem
The principal goal of Right Brain Planner is to foster a daily-ish (and/or lunarly) practice of [being present] + [self-compassionately seeing and reviewing] the details of our living by compiling a visual chronicle as a safe place to check in with ourselves. 💖
- Examples of how to pause + check in with ourselves: copy a quotation from something you are reading; snap a photo of the ☁️💙☁️ sky while noticing its details; pull an oracle 🃏 card and reflect on its meaning within your life; jot notes about your day, your 🪄 wishes and/or your 🚨 vents; a quick 📝 chronicle of the moon phases and weather on a monthly 📆 calendar; a one-line journal … there are lots of possibilities, Braveheart. 😊
The focus in developing a right brain planning practice is to see our living as ongoing—a timeline [days within years; years within a lifetime].
- To resist the urge to allow a “bad day” or a “bad week” to become a filter—a lens—that limits our ability to hope and live differently.
- Easing away from a performance-based valuation of self-worth; cycling like the moon and exploring so-called irregularity (stops and starts) as a cycle of wholeness.
Right brain planning is an opportunity to allow our journals to be our “planners”—elevating expression and desires over expectations and shoulds. A safe space to tell our stories.
Right brain planning is a simple way to remember that baby steps counts. 🧮🧮🧮
Related: self-compassion & right brain planning
Creativity + community may not change whatever challenge or suffering we may be experiencing—BUT the combination of creativity + community definitely makes life easier 😉 (and “funner”). 🤹♀️🤸🧙♀️🛝🎢
☑️ I am currently switching up how I host my online support offerings. This will include expanding + reframing support for my Ko-fi patrons.
And I would love for {you} to join in, Braveheart! 💕
🫂member comments and testimonials:
“I was surprised to feel so relaxed and seen…” | open and authentic | “I have learned to simply resume (without shame)…” | stronger together | motivation to create | warm & welcoming | “I was surprised to feel so relaxed and seen…” | open and authentic
“The consistency of the process is where the magic is.” -Emily McDowell
I started incorporating 100-Day Projects into my creative practice in February of this year. Then a second time in May (because I needed it for the momentum to get through breast cancer adventures).
- ➡️ Then, I decided to do another one this month because it just felt like what I needed. ⏳ (And I am thankful to Tammy Garcia for pointing out that I am well on my way to a 365-Day Project!) 😊
100-Day Projects for 2026:
- What if it all works out? 💖 [reversing worst-case scenarios via reflection + journal entries]
- Benevolence, Wonder and Meaning 🔎 These became the themes features for the resources I shared with my Ko-fi patrons.
- [Freedom] everyday revelations & discoveries
Braveheart, perhaps a 100-day project could serve as a simple way for you to begin chronicling your story? This is one of my trackers from this year’s 100-day projects:
If it sounds doable, and like something you want to try, please know chronicling your story can be something very simple like a daily jot or word-collage on a monthly calendar grid. (Or you could also simply begin using a calendar our already have.)
Or your 100-Day Project could something like a 5-minute walk or filling in a circle with color or doodles to literally mark your progress. ⬇️
Thank you kindly for your presence here.
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
Artist’s Statement 😊🔮🔎📝🖌️🎨❤️📊
❤️ Braveheart, as the Creator/Artist of Right Brain Planner I am ever-grateful to have the opportunity to share my creative work online + support other creators! 🎉 For almost 20 years I have had the privilege of sharing my art and writing about right brain planning while also hosting kindred 👭🏽💞👭 communities. ✨ I consider it an absolute delight to continue this portion of my creative work (even as I retire from full-time work).
This is possible, in part, by {you} and your presence here. ❤️ But also because of the support of my Ko-fi patrons and the other member/subscriber communities I host.
If you already have your own system of creative journal-planning, but are interested in financially supporting my creative work, you may do so by making a donation:
- Make a one-time contribution in any amount via [this link]. (Thank you!) ❤️
Right Brain Planner is the result of personal research, professional experience and intentional investments of curiosity, time and energy that began in 2007. I began to document my right brain planning process in 2008 via a WordPress blog; I started publishing journal-planning prompts and template pages in 2012.