Using the December Ko-fi download as my guide I am creating a small daily collage as part of my weekly chronicle. I am also using art from the Secret Message Society app.
“Everything in the world is in the process of change. Nothing is steady. Nothing is predictable. Nothing will give you anything other than temporary security. Thoughts come and go. Relationships begin and end. Bodies are born and pass away. This is all the world can offer you: impermanence, growth, change.” -Paul Ferrini
I am reflecting on the weekly prompts from the Ko-fi download for December to guide me:
Where are your daily habits leading you?
My daily habits in December are focused on ease, rest and s-l-o-w. This facilitates my time and energies being given to reflection, napping and purging.
I also like to take inventory of what I enjoyed for the year—and what I need to release and conclude.
This is demonstrated in the December downloads, particularly the weekly prompts included in the Ko-fi download for December.
“[It’s possible to] have a much deeper experience of the world through the use of a regular documentation of everyday life.” -Keri Smith
Braveheart, everything cycles: our needs, preferences, energies and the many details of what serves and sustains us.
This means what we chronicle + how we chronicle (compile narratives of) our living will cycle. Keeping some type of chronicle will certainly deepen our experience of the world and enhance our attention, energies, desires, doubts, inspirations and strength; our habits, moods, relationships, intentions and defaults.
But, also, our narratives can change by choice, intention and focus as necessary.
We can co-exist with everything and we can co-exist with every phase within our cycles—even as we learn to keep only what speaks to our hearts.
My right brain planning practice has been a saving grace for me through college; unemployment/underemployment; graduate school; motherhood; cancer; coping through estrangements; chronic illness; and living my questions.
- It helped me to hold space with what I was experiencing, but also to hold on loosely because much of what I experienced was jarringly unexpected and I had to cope without support. (Mostly because the people I asked were emotionally unavailable or ill-equipped.)
- There were many heart-wrenching daily challenges that demanded my time and energies, and discernment.
- For decades, these demands allowed little time for tending to my own needs.
- That eventually led to me hitting rock bottom in 2019, and exacerbated by the events of 2020 and 2021 in my personal life (and obviously, world events). 💔
Looking back I see my recovery and eventual restoration could not have happened any other way. It broke me of the habits rooted in my faulty [always try harder] belief system, (because otherwise I would be a burden to others). Or so I believed …
- I no longer value “stronger” over “softer,” or trying harder over pause and release.
- I am content with “less”—which in truth, is not less, it is simply precisely everything that I need. ❤️
“Vulnerability [is] the place where you’re open to the world, whether you want to be or not.” -David Whyte
Vulnerability for me is being open to prioritizing what I need and want + investing time and energy into the relationships and the creative work (being/doing) I need and want.
Showing up for myself on the pages of my right brain planners facilitated my healing, but also it helped me to see the facts of my own choices along with my habit of minimizing what I needed, and the pain and sorrow from my habit of ignoring certain people’s habits and behavior.
Braveheart, the choices we make determine the kind of people we are + how well we live and love. ❤️
Our choices determine our lives.
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I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
❤️ 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