If you’re not occasionally losing your balance, you’re not stretching yourself. The more powerful you become, the more each movement can take you off balance.
Charlie Gilkey
Within my current evolution, I experienced a sense of being off balance yesterday.
After the fact, I recognize it for what it was (a course correction) but in the moment it felt sudden and overwhelming.
- Overwhelming because I was happily working on a project, unaware that reading a brief message could trigger such a surge of emotion.
- Overwhelming because the subject of the message is at the tip of an emotional iceberg.
- Overwhelming because I forgot that occasionally losing your balance is simply part of living.
My heart will stay soft and filled with love despite the hurt I will face. I am a student. I am learning to allow my pain to teach me, not harden me.
Alexandra Elle
I began to read through my notes from After the Rain; I compiled a list of what I needed to pause (to allow energy and time for what I need the most in that moment).
I have been discussing chapters from After the Rain with a dynamic, kindred and much-beloved community for the past seven months.
- Each chapter presents a simple theme that invites you to abide with its details, and then explore what those details offer for your personal growth.
- Such simple themes, that without reflection, you may be left wondering about the significance to you personally.
I have the strength to touch where it hurts. I will tell my pain that it’s safe to heal. In the throes of healing, I may break open time and time again to learn that the things I thought I healed from still need nurturing.
Alexandra Elle
The swirlyness that followed my “off-balance” moment led to my day going differently than originally planned, but I am (ever-slowly) learning to be self-compassionate and honor my pace (instead of berating myself).
- A timely note from a dear friend reminded me that our bodies remember, even when our minds don’t. She shared this visual reminder with me as I mourn details of what cannot be changed, along with the anniversary of my mother’s passing.
Braveheart, as the wheel of the year turns, so do the details of our Becoming.
We revisit life events (the good, the bad and the ugly). It feels the same, but it is different as we spiral our way around our memories, dreams and desires.
We rise and fall; we discover, learn and heal; we release and conclude as we evolve and mature; and we celebrate the kaleidoscope of details of our wild and precious lives. ♥
Transitions, big and small, are rarely straight-forward. They require abandoning the parts of ourselves that feel safe and familiar.
Alexandra Elle
How do you want to change? Think about things in your life that need to shift and require your full attention to do.
Alexandra Elle
A few years ago, after years of stacking devastating losses one on top of another, I started the process of accepting that I can’t keep carrying it all.
- I resigned certain life roles and hopes as part of accepting what could not be changed.
- I fostered new friendships, and I deepened my connection with existing friendships.
- I resumed a professional partnership; and I took teeny-tiny, baby-steps into hosting online spaces with kindred-spirited women.
You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.
Brené Brown
The past few years I have been focused on walking inside my story. Knowing full well, that “walking into a story about disappointment or failure can feel like being swallowed whole by emotion” (Brene Brown).
I am currently in the midst the lifelong process of identifying the fallacies that became the foundations of my faulty belief system, and making improvements as I reframe and renovate.
If you ask me about my work in progress, you will get an evasive answer that will make both of us feel awkward. That’s not because I think you’ll steal my ideas. It’s because there’s a big explosion of concepts filling my brain, and I struggle to articulate what it’s all about until the whole thing is finished.
Katherine May
Reading these words by Katherine May resonated so deeply for me. It was reassuring to know what I feel whenever I am working on something is not uncommon.
- This visual also affirmed my habit of shifting to curiosity whenever I am struggling to articulate what I experiencing or attempting to understand. ♥
[Shift] to curiosity: ask questions, consider what you might not be seeing, and be open to learning from them about the reality of their experiences.
Stephanie Harrison
Right brain planning is more about expression, tracking mile markers and being present (here.now) than planning (dates, deadlines and shoulds).
- This blog is one of my visual journals, an example of how I practice right brain planning (and how I commemorate the mile markers of my living.
Thank you kindly for your presence here, Braveheart.
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
2024 Right Brain Planner® Kit | field notes | Right Brain Planner® FAQ
2024 Right Brain Planner® Kit [Theme] Kaleidoscope Perspectives ✨ [Focus] — Noticing Beauty (within the kaleidoscope of your living: the ongoing, ever-changing “formations” of color and meaning)
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