“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” -Dr. Suess
Needless to say, being online has been moved to the “if I have time and energy” category. (Both at a premium these days.)
✅ TL;DR I will continue sharing most of my content on my Ko-fi account and the private communities I host, with periodic posts to my Instagram.
The past three months have been a blur of activity (medical appointments, physical therapy, test results and surgeries).
Braveheart, I have been (mostly) offline since May. 🤹❤️🩹 May was all about medical appointments, imaging and surgical procedures. June included a major surgery, and proved to be an 🎢 adventure (of sorts) 😉 for me. July’s realities have also been a continuing 💌 invitation for stillness and also, being (mostly) offline.
Part of me determined to compassionately honor my pace, but also part of me shouting variations of “What else can happen??” (and weeping + visual journaling as a release).
My overall intention is to be in the moment, [reframing and focusing] on the essentials of what I need moving forward. So-o …
I have been devoted to doing my best to maintain a balance within my Life Quad, along with creating “ugly pages” as a way of processing all of this.
What I share here (aka my online visual journal) is mostly a copy/paste review of my journal entries and my slow-reading notes.
😊 Shared here because it creates an archive + it is searchable—something not available with my paper right brain planners.
- I was hesitate, but also 💯 certain, of my initial decision to (mostly) pause my online posts and updates about the resources I publish.
- I remain ever-grateful for the support of my Ko-fi patrons! 💗
- July themes and prompts are inspiring future versions of ourselves.
- In planning for this time off I got clear on how to create a system of grouping similar tasks in order to accomplish them in the least amount of time.
- 😊🙈😉 Necessity is the mother of invention/understanding because I have experimented with this numerous times before. ✅
- I will be sharing my notes and templates for this in the September resources for my Ko-fi patrons. As well as discussing ideas during our September Community Session.
Also, a dear 💛 friend (immensely creative—but also left-brained extraordinaire) recently walked me through some scheduling options during one of our weekend chats. ✅
I was determined to create a new routine, but she kindly reminded me to save time and energy by starting with what already works for me, then pair that with the essentials of what I want to experience + accomplish. 💗
“Sometimes surviving life’s hardest seasons looks less like finding answers and more like making room for your own humanity.” -Alex Elle
Right brain planning fosters self-compassion (instead of a system based on performance) because it prioritizes expression, your well-being and with yourself; tracking your phases [energies, moods, progress] with nature’s seasons and the 🌙 moon’s phases; tending to your Life Quad, nourishing your senses and noticing the details of the world around you.
📊 Tracking (and reviewing) our 💭 thoughts and routine activities [along with whatever has our ⚠️ attention] reveals our beliefs and values—and helps us to discover meaning and the details of our ♻️ rhythms.
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⭐️ I am an artist and curator; I am one who communicates with color, found words and collage, inky marks and doodles as I cycle like the moon (as my calendar), chronicling oracles and abiding with the sky as a meditation.
Artist’s Statement 😊🔮🔎📝🖌️🎨❤️📊
⭐️ I host creative communities, safe spaces for gathering and sharing. I choose love and creativity for coping with the ongoing challenges of this world and I go to work—not because everything is fine but because I believe art heals.
❤️ 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. (Thank you!) 💗 But also because of the support of my Ko-fi patrons and the other member/subscriber communities I host (via their presence, input and paid subscriptions). 🫶
- 💁🏻♀️ Other ways to support my work: ❤️ continue to read this blog + follow me on Instagram. 📲
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