“Art is an act of tuning in and dropping down the well.” -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).
This set of card art includes lunar 🌙 phases. 🥳
“[When we] tune in to the frequency we want….[we hear the voice of the Creator, handing] you whatever you need for the project. The minute you are willing to accept the help of this collaborator, you will see useful bits of help everywhere in your life.” -Julia Cameron
Chapter 7, “Recovering a Sense of Connection” is a vital reminder to practice the “right attitudes for creativity to connect with your personal dreams.” Of particular interest to me this month: dismantling 🙅🏻 perfectionism.
The July guide words to live our fullness, our questions and what-if’s from the perspective of both [in-flow] and [mull].
- July focus: living our questions [in-full + without apology] and [with intention and wonder]—amidst our challenges and from the perspective of both being [in-flow] and [mull] … processing, by-faith. 📿
“Learn to accept the possibility that the universe is helping you with what you are doing.” -Julia Cameron
“Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that cause you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.” -Julia Cameron
💁🏻♀️ For July, our focus is [letting go; looking forward] along with [wonder and future self journaling].
➡️ The focus is to develop a new perspective of wonder and free ourselves from perfection as we cycle like the 🌙 moon.
🫂member comments and testimonials:
“I was surprised to feel so relaxed and seen…” | open and authentic | “I have learned to simply resume (without shame)…” | stronger together | motivation to create | warm & welcoming
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. 🗓️📊📈🦋✨
“Usually, when we say we can’t do something, what we mean is that we won’t do something unless we can guarantee that we’ll do it perfectly.” -Julia Cameron
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 prioritize our well-being, and to devote time and attention to what we need. And remembering that art is the about getting something down (attention + listening).
- Use the art in the download below + playing 🃏 cards or cardstock 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. (Thank you!) 💗 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!) ❤️