January 2026

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“Eventually, I stopped making resolutions altogether. Not because I stopped wanting change—but because I stopped trying to become someone else…in place of resolutions, I turned toward ritual.” -Suleika Jaouad

💁🏻‍♀️ Braveheart, during 2026 I will be compiling a monthly page with summary notes and links of current details, elements and resources from my practice.

  • Starting points include: meditation, breathwork + my “first thoughts” journaling (jots and blurts; to-do lists; miscellaneous notes); movement (stretching for flexibility and release; yoga; dancin’ it out)
  • Weekly and daily sequences (reading; writing; courses/co-creating groups; ongoing projects; daily walk)

journal practice

  • As a means of tracking + using the templates I create for the groups I host, I will be compiling (2) gluebooks:
  • A dated planner with daily vertical columns for notes + tracking my dailies
  • Composition journals (first thoughts, processing & writing notes, project notes)
  • Altering a book [Finding Freedom by Erin French]; adding black Gesso to the pages for journaling (with a white gel pen) + collage and tip-in’s
  • Meeting notes journal (summary notes; follow-up, etc.)
  • Five-year-journal (I started using this journal in 2021; most pages include at least 2-3 entries sections reminding that each year tells its own story, which sometimes includes blank page
    • I continue this practice (even when only periodically) because it is a comfort and provides insight regarding my story as it unfolds …) 🩷

Note: These journal/planners are only used as needed. Having a specific purpose for each one serves me well. (Braveheart, always do what serves you.)

“It’s about giving yourself permission to not do it perfectly—giving yourself permission to resist, giving yourself permission even to skip a day, to make the reason you skipped part of the process.” -Michael Bierut

rereading and reading

  • Wintering by Katherine May
  • Heart Minded by Sarah Blondin
  • Getting Things Done by David Allen
  • Deep Work by Cal Newport
  • Inward by yung pueblo
  • Glow in the F*cking Dark: Simple Practices to Heal Your Soul, from Someone Who Learned the Hard Way by Tara Schuster
    • Note: I practice [marginalia]: jots, marks, doodles and/or comments made in the margins of a book and [immersion reading]: reading along with a book while the same title plays on audio.
  • The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad (reading & discussing monthly with friends via Zoom)
  • You Are An Artist by Sarah Urist Green (reading & discussing monthly with local friends; notes from July 2025, “How do you perform your new self that you are becoming? -T.J. Dedeaux-Norris)

reviewing

  • The Color Meditation Deck by Lisa Solomon 🌈(as color prompts)

For 2026, I will be reviewing a chapter from The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and providing a free download of themed art cards on a monthly basis.

  • Here is my first post.

“When we say we are afraid to begin a project, we are actually saying something else: ‘I am afraid of how I will feel as I continue.’ We do not want to start because we do not know that we can continue.” -Julia Cameron

my well-worn, altered copy of The Artist’s Way

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. 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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