🔔 [Freedom] is the guide word I chose for 2026, and it has helped me to decide what I want to live more of—and given me the inspiration and energy to live it.
🔔 [Freedom] guided me through appointments with ten different doctors, six surgeries and recalibrating to live and thrive beyond various health challenges, as well as coming to terms with (acknowledging, processing details and letting go) the broken 💔⛓️💥 heart realities of past traumas.
Frankly, I did not fully experience [freedom] until this year. (Thank you, Divine guidance and love, and right brain planning for the opportunity to live my questions.) 🙏💗🖌️
“There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear expects punishment. The person who is afraid has not been made perfect in love.” -1 John 4:18
💔⛓️💥 My trauma led to faulty beliefs about 💗 love, and the requirements of the life roles and relationships I chose.
🙏 Facing past traumatic incidents and relationships led to the truth (and healing) that perfect 💗 love drives out fear and redeems 💗 us from the lies and harm we experienced.
Right brain planning aka self-compassion + expression (verbal-processing and art journaling) and devoting attention and review (meditation and prayer) has been my practice since I was in my teens.
Right brain planning is a way of marking 🔖 time and envisioning time for the purpose of [hope] and ✅ living more of what matters most to us. 🪄🦩💖
- It is a way to move [away from 😔😪😥 despair] and practice [being 🪄💭 curious] when it is time to move beyond our [Before] ⬅️⬅️⬅️ and ➡️➡️➡️ move into the appointed season and phases of our ➡️ [Next].
- It is a way of 🪄💭 [envisioning] ourselves living what 🔁 matters most to us 🪄🦩💖 as we experiment with ✅ new habits and routines—and jot 📝 down the details of our 🪄💭 daydreams and 🙏🏻 wishes and our ❤️ want-to’s.
- It is [a way to live] ✅ this day (and every single day) to its fullest capacity. 🫶🏻
- Even if (especially if) we feel ❌ stuck, emotionally 🎢 swirly, “behind” or ⁉️ [without a sense of direction].
- Braveheart, I highly recommend devoting some time with this thought experiment … 🪄🦩💖
- After you do the thought experiment, re-imagine this day—imagine yourself just beyond yourself at this point of time in your wild and precious life:
- Even if (especially if) we feel ❌ stuck, emotionally 🎢 swirly, “behind” or ⁉️ [without a sense of direction].
🙌 Braveheart, life {can} get better. ❤️🩹 Please lean into your spirit-life—and trust your pace. (Right brain planning 🖊️✨✂️📏📖🖌️ helps with that … speaking from experience.) 😊
- ✅ Right brain planning is a way of compiling a dated 📝 chronicle of our emotions ➡️➡️➡️ enabling us to manage [notice, track] our reactions to our emotions. 😒😊🥺🤬😕
💕👩🏻💻💌📥 Ko-fi patrons, I shared some prompts + a download about living a life you love [here].
“The narrative you are living can be changed at any time because it is being written in real time—by you.” -Joseph Nguyen
As a practice this year, I have been incorporating brief ⌛️⏳ pauses throughout the day for being ✨☀️🌳🌙 outdoors + to become aware of what is in my mind + the accuracy of what I am thinking. 💭 And {wow!} 🙌 what a difference it is making with regard to my mood, energy and peace of mind. ☮️
- This practice is part of three years of devotion to prioritize my well-being to come to terms with the trauma (and resulting faulty beliefs) throughout my lifetime.
- Trauma that blocked my ability to experience how “perfect love drives out fear [and punishment]” (1 John 4:18).
Trauma that blocked my ability to envision “more” because I was seeing my-self from a diminished view. Dreams begin from a vantage point of knowing we are worthy and capable 🔭 of creating and living a life we love. 💗
Braveheart, today can be your Day One. (Any day can be Day One.) Let’s go … 💗
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.
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). 🫶
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