“When you’re ready to bring something to life, you might discover that you’re deep in the cultivation phase, not yet at the point of planting. Cultivation is the phase where you prepare the ground, which is crucial for nurturing any future development.” -Morgan Harper Nichols
After a month away from my regular schedule (which is continuing into this week), I am focused on holding space with those precious (healing and fun) memories but also slowly moving back to the prepared ground of my future plans.
I have started three different posts this week, but not one of them felt necessary. 🤷🏻♀️ But that is the way it goes sometimes.
Yesterday I sat outdoors recharging in the ☀️ sunshine after acknowledging my swirly 🌀thoughts; I know I needed to pause + regroup my plans for the day. (It has been a wonky week—but also, so wonderful.) 💙
- I took that time to celebrate all of that full moon energy and take some time to process + recalibrate.
- Yesterday’s fortune on the Secret Message Society’s app affirmed my choice:
November’s prompt in the Right Brain Planner Basics Guide is to connect the dots we know, and to trust in the process of time that leads to fruition.
I know it is time to connect the dots and to turn some pages. I have been ever-slowly holding space with [what is] and [what is not] as I embrace my humanity [my limits] + [my ongoingness] while also 🐌 acknowledging that slow is fast enough.
Listening to this podcast helped me to gain some additional resolve to continue to cultivate and to purge the noise (distractions, what-if’s, situations that do not contribute to my well-being).
“At times, this phase may feel a little slower, but it is still active groundwork. Use this time to weave the insights you’ve gained. Let them enrich the soil beneath you. Let the process of cultivating be dynamic and transformative.” -Morgan Harper Nichols
I keep coming across the word, metamorphosis. It is the word I prefer over the word, change. Change tends to cue angst and overthinking all the what-if’s.
Metamorphosis feels more in-line with spiritual rebirth, Divine guidance and with the current details of my story-unfolding.
“Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. … Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.” -Terry Tempest Williams
I am able to honor my pace and my humanity; I am able to hold space with my questions, my anxiety, my sorrow and all that has happened (and not happened)—as I also witness my own story and envision my future! 👐
- I will “keep making space to apply what [I] have been learning in this life” (Morgan Harper Nichols).
“There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not good enough. … The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.” -Annie Dillard
I will continue to acknowledge and glean from the fact that “Love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths” (Clarissa Pinkola Estés). ❤️ That everything cycles, and yes, everything changes.
“Love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—all in the same relationship.” -Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“We are permitted to become detached only after the shock of an experience has been taken in, allowed to ‘happen’ in the deepest sense.” -May Sarton
These are the words I need right now: “permitted to become detached” as the sorrow of specific experiences have been acknowledged, even as the wounds continues to heal.
- Because detaching creates room for additional cultivation, for new growth and developments.
- This is where my right brain planning practice takes many forms in the chronicling and processing of my living and the deaths and rebirths.
- There is great comfort and healing inspiration within my found words, color-vents, black inky doodles and torn bits of text and paper.
“Something inside you is always telling a story. I believe that every single thing you see and hear is talking to you.” -Jim Carrey
Right Brain Planner is a collection of lunar + seasonal prompts and journal-planning ideas to encourage self-compassion and review, reflection and expression, discovery and healing.
Braveheart, we learn by doing: we discover details about ourselves through chronicled observation 👀✍️📔 because everything we experience is data. 📊
Data is value-neutral; it is neither “good’ or “bad”—it is merely information to use for our choices, intentions and conclusions. Remembering this helps us to live free from judgment and shoulds.
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