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self-compassion & right brain planning

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Braveheart, I have been sharing about my right brain planning practice for almost two decades. In that time I have never attempted to define it beyond collage-planning and allowing self-compassion & expression to be a guide.

  • Right brain planning is a daily practice for me because:
    • it is a form of prayer and meditation: [naming + listening]
      • a way to clarify my hopes, desires and fears
    • it is a practice that enables me to [define + hone] my priorities—and live more of what matters most to me

During the past two years, I have discovered new language for right brain planning via reading Feel Something, Make Something by Caitlin Metz, and Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff.

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there is no one-and-only; everything cycles through phases

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“Most of the time, we approach our tasks with the mantra of, “this better work.” Far better to say, ‘this might work.’ [the slogan for a scientist, an artist and a linchpin].” -Seth Godin

Braveheart, everything is an experiment: everything from the mundane details to life-changing choices. And everything cycles through darkness and light.

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hope vs. powerlessness

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“What we have named as anger on the surface is the violent outer response to our own inner powerlessness, a powerlessness connected to such a profound sense of rawness and care that it can find no proper outer body or identity or voice, or way of life to hold it. What we call anger is often simply the unwillingness to live the full measure of our fears or of our not knowing, in the face of [love]…” -David Whyte

Living with my “not knowing” sums up the month of May for me. It included hope but also, powerlessness. 😥 BUT—I was fueled by a sense of something sturdier and being determined to move toward a new freedom.

  • Frankly, that “new freedom” mindset actually started for me in February, when I started to hold fast to hope and joy as a practice (even when that felt impossible).
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