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2026 Right Brain Planner theme:
[conscious living]
🛵 Cyclical resources to foster a right brain planning practice are available to my Ko-fi patrons and members of the private communities I host.
➡️➡️➡️ As a daily prompt I will post oracle cards, content + free downloads here for 12 days to offer ideas and resources for self-compassion + expression + attention + reflection.
“Journaling* has been linked to mental health benefits like lower stress, reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety, and faster recovery after a traumatic experience.” Source
December 2025: Resource updates are currently in-progress. Please check back to access available files. ❤️
There are two parts to right brain planner resources:
✅ As a starting point (or an addition to your current journal-planning practice), I regularly share free themed downloads.
- (1) Thematic Guides—content and principles regarding a right brain planning practice to foster the habit of attention regarding your “constellations” [energies, habits and rhythms] with self-compassion.
- (2) Prompts and Templates—themed content to provide inspiration and dated supplemental content during the calendar year and available to my Ko-fi patrons. ★
I post weekly to private Instagram accounts and host online co-creating sessions.
As you master the art of showing up, the first two minutes simply become a ritual at the beginning of a larger routine.
James Clear
Right brain planning (jotted notes, color vents, collage and doodles of our ponderings and dated mental wanderings) are the data + a map of our living, serving as a tangible chronicle of:
- questions and wishes
- keywords and phrases
- daydreams and nighttime dreams
- what we feel and think
- what we want to experience
- what we need to foster our well-being
- what we want to discover and learn about
Our right brain chronicles can become a sacred space for processing what we need and desire—space where we observe and process the data of our living to make choices (and prioritize) what matters most to us.
★ EDITORIAL NOTE: My right brain planning practice is a continuous research project and constantly evolves. I publish compilations of my art and self-directed studies combined with guiding content, prompts and template pages. The themes of Right Brain Planner® resources are discussed via online support communities and content posts shared with my Ko-fi supporters and my blog.
Right Brain Planner® is the result of a lifetime of trial-and-error research, professional experience along with intentional investments of curiosity, time and energy. In 2008, I (Teresa aka stargardener), began to document my right brain planning practice via a WordPress blog. In 2012, I started publishing journal-planning prompts and template pages, and curating themed content that facilitates a creative record [tangible/ intangible] of intention and story. This practice encourages self-compassionate and self-expression with living more of what matters most within the four essentials of the Life Quad, along with tending to one’s personal trinity: mind, body, soul (spirit).
It has been my delight to host communities + publish resources that foster the practice of a creative record [tangible and intangible] of intention and story for almost 20 years.
There is no elevator speech [a 30- to 60-second answer] about right brain planning.
- And I am okay with that. 😊 Because I know hundreds of right brain planners — and each one of them has their own unique, ever-evolving practice.
There is no substitute for observation + trial and error experimenting with what works for you as a right brain planner (and a human).
This site (and the concept of right brain planning) has always been about ideas and prompts provided for your interpretation, Braveheart.
Creativity is enhanced by being involved with kindred communities. That is why I will continue writing and sharing here, and privately in the communities I host (online and locally). ♥
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.
Thank you kindly for your presence here.
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 host (via their presence, input and paid subscriptions).