August focus: living our questions [in-full + without apology] and [with intention as we foster meaning]—amidst our challenges and from the perspective of both being [capable] and [assisted] … processing, by-faith. 📿
➡️ Continue reading to learn more about this theme, resources for August and free downloads.
💁🏻♀️ For August, our focus is [meaning & personal values] within a reframe (if needed) regarding our capacity and progress.
August tends to feel like a time to wind down before the final months of the calendar year. I like to allow August to be a time for review + envisioning. 🪄🤸🏻♂️📝
gratitude | summer art (I completed all 61 ICAD cards!) 🥳 | the very real challenges of recovery, reentry & moving on | choices in the space in-between | intuition
Do you have something in particular that you like to do during the month of August?
I provide quarterly themes and templates to my Ko-fi patrons to encourage slow-planning. When we chronicle our ideas, intentions and observations on a quarterly basis, we invite a focus on [baby steps + new starting points].
- 💢 Quarter planning is part of our focus for 2026: A “slow-plan” option; a way to move away from 30-day (monthly) sprints. ✅ Enabling us to discern + discover the necessary rituals for our well-being.
- This slow-plan mindset is currently guiding me through a time of wellness “uncertainty,” discerning between treasured and flawed, embracing what is along with accepting what cannot be changed.
- 🔔 Our next community session will be Saturday, August 15, 1:30-2:45-ish p.m. Central Time. The meeting link will be posted here on August 14.
🫂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
📊 Everything our 🧠 brains and nervous 🏂 systems do is designed as [protective]. ✋➡️🧰 (Designed to redirect and guide us by getting our attention.) 🔍✨
Creativity 🦄🗃️✂️🖌️📐🎨🖌️ is one of the ways we can co-exist [and] move through [and] learn 📯📝✨📖 during times of 😜😝🤣🤪😭😩 angst, anxiety and uncertainty. 📝📥This is why having some form of creative 💢 scaffolding in place is beneficial. 🗓️📊📈🦋✨
❤️🩹 Life can get better, Braveheart. ~speaking from personal experience 😊
🦄🌌 Wishing you peaceful [days of wonder], dear Braveheart. And hoping we can begin to view our questions and obstacles as 🦩🌈🔄️ mysteries to experience (instead of problems to be 🛠️ fixed).
Thank you kindly for your presence here, Braveheart. 💗
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
⭐️ 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.
⭐️ 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. 📲
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!) ❤️