“What we are talking about seems to be a conscious partnership in which we work along slowly and gradually, clearing away the wreckage of our negative patterning, clarifying the vision of what it is we want.” -Julia Cameron
For 2026, I am rereading a chapter from The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and providing a free download of themed art cards on a monthly basis (on the third Tuesdays).
Chapter 5, “Recovering a Sense of Possibility” is precisely what I need to think-on and ponder right now. 😌 (This is why I like to review The Artist’s Way annually.) 😉
I am facing cancer for a second time, even as I also incorporate new rituals and wellness routines for my mobility and health going forward.
- The May guide words offer us inspiration to live + to commit within our power, to change and live differently; to live vulnerably and honestly regarding what we need and desire—detached from people who are unsupportive, critical or flat-out refuse to try to understand. 🙅♀️
“Afraid to appear selfish, we lose our self. We become self-destructive. Because this self-murder is something we seek passively rather than consciously act out, we are often blind to its poisonous grip on us.” -Julia Cameron
Creativity 🦄🗃️✂️🖌️📐🎨🖌️ is one of the ways we can co-exist [and] move through [and] learn 📯📝✨📖 during times of 😜😝🤣🤪😭😩 angst, anxiety and uncertainty. 📝📥This is why having some form of creative 💢 scaffolding in place is beneficial. 🗓️📊📈🦋✨
Braveheart, our days are numbered. How will we experience this day? What has waited long enough?
💁🏻♀️ For May, the Ko-fi resources are focused on [new narratives]. The content and templates are for reframing + focusing on affirmations for our well-being.
🫂 member comments and testimonials:
stronger together | motivation to create | warm & welcoming | “I was surprised to feel so relaxed and seen…” | “I have learned to simply resume (without shame)…” | open and authentic
“By replacing ‘No way! with ‘Maybe,’ we open the door to mystery and to magic.” -Julia Cameron
“By holding lightly to an attitude of gentle exploration, we can begin to lean into creative expansion. By replacing ‘No way! with ‘Maybe,’ we open the door to mystery and to magic.” -Julia Cameron
“The shift to spiritual dependency is a gradual one … each day we become more true to ourselves, more open to the positive.” -Julia Cameron
This chapter begins with the topic of limits and being open to “receiving a gift beyond our imagining” as we “find the river” (being more true to ourselves and being less self-rejecting).
- Morning pages (daily, long-form journaling) “press us to answer what else” and discover possibility as we also become clear on what we desire—and what needs to released.
“We are the ones making unreasonable demands. We expect our artist to be able to function without giving it what it needs to do so.” -Julia Cameron
“We strive to be good, to be nice, to be helpful, to be unselfish. We want to be generous, of service, of the world. But what we really want is to be left alone [to do what we need and want]. When we can’t get others to leave us alone, we eventually abandon ourselves.” -Julia Cameron
“We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I’m not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for that.” -Toni Morrison
✅ Related posts: time & audacious dreams | seeing ourselves clearly
What does all this have to do with right brain planning?
The principal goal of Right Brain Planner is to foster a daily practice of [being present] + [seeing and evaluating] the details of our living by compiling a visual chronicle.
The focus in developing a right brain planning practice is to see our living as ongoing—a timeline [days within years; years within a lifetime].
- To resist the urge to allow a “bad day” or a “bad week” to become a filter—a lens—that limits our ability to hope and live differently.
- Easing away from a performance-based valuation of self-worth; cycling like the moon and exploring so-called irregularity (stops and starts) as a cycle of wholeness.
Right brain planning is an opportunity to allow our journals to be our “planners”—elevating expression and desires over expectations and shoulds.
Right brain planning is a way to process our values and define buried dreams, “excavate our own pasts for the shards of buried dreams and delights” and approach certain challenges from new perspectives.
- Use the art in the download below to create cards to use as prompts + reminders for your creative practice:
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). 🫶
- 💁🏻♀️ Other ways to support my work: ❤️ continue to read this blog + follow me on Instagram. 📲
If you already have your own system of creative journal-planning, but are interested in financially supporting my creative work, you may do so by making a donation:
- Make a one-time contribution in any amount via [this link]. (Thank you!) ❤️