Owning our stories means acknowledging our feelings and wrestling with the hard emotions—our fear, anger, aggression, shame, and blame. This isn’t easy, but the alternative—denying our stories and disengaging from emotion—means choosing to live our entire lives in the dark. It means no accountability, no learning, no growth. Brené Brown 🎉 Week 5/52 was all… Continue reading [week 5/52 review] slow and steady
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[week 4/52 review] unmoved
[little me + a journal from my son + card from K] So, Braveheart, today is the first day of a new trip around the sun for me ... and Week 4/52 was the ideal launching pad for celebrating my wild and precious life! 🎉🎉🎉 Week 4/52 was all about redefining my creative work, self-directed… Continue reading [week 4/52 review] unmoved
[week 3/52 review] beginner’s mind
My Week 3/53 page collage includes the lunar phase and weekly art marker; found words that created a message of guidance and affirmation; art from packaging (fruit stickers; yogurt; a pocket mirror); swirls inspired by Lynda Barry (my versions differ a bit); red Washi tape (red is the color prompt for January from the 2024… Continue reading [week 3/52 review] beginner’s mind
[week 2/52 review] aligning
Tracking the details of each week helps me focus on my practice. ♥ I compile these weekly entries to share the pages I create, but also to track guiding words and quotations and what I am reading and learning about. Week 2/52 reading stack Because I want to be more intentional about compiling monthly notes… Continue reading [week 2/52 review] aligning
[week 1/52 review] art cards, books & journal stacks
[This is a free download available here until January 31, 2024.] Tracking the details of each week helps me focus on my priorities. As a practice, this also offers clarity and reduces the roller coasters of distraction, and helps me to separate fact from fiction. 🙂 The truth is that one day you hate yourself,… Continue reading [week 1/52 review] art cards, books & journal stacks
[week 48/52] conclude
This past week included writing about [touch] as communication, a reminder that The Work will be ready, [noticing] what speaks to my heart and a significant mile marker for me as 🌈I continue to explore [the synchronicity] of this calendar year, holding space my emotions as 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 colors — rainbows of my inner sky —… Continue reading [week 48/52] conclude
[week 47/52] claiming
This past week included outgrowing limiting spaces and heartfelt rest as I consider all the possibilities (the secret heart of time). You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done…you are fierce with reality. Florida Scott-Maxwell [weekly page, circa 2013] I… Continue reading [week 47/52] claiming