I do not have to be perfect at being more mindful in order to grow and cultivate peace on this journey. I will continue to breathe deep and welcome grace as I carry on throughout the day.
Morgan Harper Nichols
What am I actually missing [grieving; longing for]?
This is the question I asked myself during a recent weekend after I felt blindsided by grief and longing to return to an earlier time in my life.
- My mind was flooded with all the best memories of that time period.
- I experienced an overwhelming longing to return to that time …
- I suddenly felt intensely sad that that time was over.
I began a new collage page in my processing journal; adding in color with ink, paint and strips torn from magazine pages, and handwritten notes along with words cut out from altered book pages.
As I created the page, I began to 💭 wonder if this could also be grief I never had the ⌛️ time and space and capacity 🪫 to process during those years.
- Because those years were also riddled with hardship and heart-breaking realities.
There are amazing memories, but that time was not a continuous stream of ease and sunshiney moments. It included traumatic realities I never want to relive.
- As I compiled collage and notations, I allowed myself to mentally time travel …
- New connections of accuracy came to mind regarding that time in my life.
- I began to recall not only the precious and meaningful moments — but also the pain and suffering.
- I also began to identify the goodness unique to this time of my life. ♥
- The page became a tangible chronicle of time and meaning, offering me space to release to the past what is past.
- Processing both tangibly and intangibly helped to remember those years of my life with more accuracy.
- The page became a mile marker of release and reconciliation (personally and relationally), making space in my present for accepting what I cannot change — and for all the possibilities that await me in the future. 🙌
[Belonging to myself] means I can hold space with everything I know — and don’t know — and trust that “what I am seeking is seeking me” (Rumi).
[Belonging to myself] has included facing my tendency to minimize my capacity + face the reasons behind my resistance in specific areas of my life.
Thank you kindly for your presence here, Braveheart.
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
Braveheart, life can feel impossible at times. And our dreams need a lot of time and energy. For me personally, I found solace within my right brain planning practice amidst some severe life challenges. Those years proved to be the trial-and-error foundation of my right brain planning practice.
There can be no growth if we do not remain open and vulnerable to what is new and different.
John O’Donohue
🙏🔮✏️ I am currently compiling the 2024 Right Brain Planner®️ Kit (with a 2023 supplement) to be ready by the October New 🌑 Moon (hopefully and with wholehearted intention). 😊
- THEME: Kaleidoscope Perspectives ✨
- FOCUS: Noticing Beauty (within the kaleidoscope of your living: the ever-changing “formations” of color and meaning).