Shedding doesn’t happen overnight. You’re unfurling and growing in new way daily. Growth takes time and patience. Advocate for yourself … [and keep trusting].
Alexandra Elle
Week 14/52 was about shedding away items I no longer need to keep (along with living my questions regarding two specific, ongoing choices); being outdoors; garden clearing; creating new spaces for rest and beauty in my backyard; meaningful conversations and crossing over a long-awaited threshold regarding administrative work.
Having a sense of structure in place makes “it is easier to thrive and flourish” (Julia Cameron). My creative structure (sequences and task lists + compiling these weekly summaries of what I am reading and observing) serves me as both a balm and compass.
True love allows, honors, and appreciates; attachment grasps, demands, needs, and aims to possess.
Brené Brown
[oracle card + affirmations from the April download]
The only real apology is behavior change. If they keep saying sorry for the same thing over and over and over again—they probably aren’t actually sorry and they might just be saying it to absolve themselves of guilt.
Mel Robbins
Week 14/52 In-Review
The days of this week have felt like fruition (after years of intention, recovery time and therapeutic actions); outcomes and peace of mind felt well-deserved. Appointments, choices and conversations continue regarding home projects and improvements.
[Self-abandonment] is not an act of love.…Sometimes the most compassionate thing we can do is to step away from people, places and situation that are stifling our growth and potential.
Alex Elle
[my visual journal entries]
📱“True growth and innovation demand that we break free from the cycle of repetitive and comfort.” [oracle card] 🧭 April guide word 🌗 [quarter moon] 🦄 [i am] 📱 restorative pauses 📱 seeing yourself 🦄 life-lens
Some of these links are to posts I shared in the private communities I host.
Allow yourself to consider the possibilities. Allow yourself to consider the possibilities in a thousand little ways … In doing this, you are creating space to move from a passive to active hope, that can thrive amidst the change.
Morgan Harper Nichols
[of interest, clarity, comfort & inspiration]
🎧 Julia Louis-Dreyfus podcast 🌟 Virginia Woolf’s Account of a Total Solar Eclipse 🦄 How to make a map of your mind & interview with Mary Ruefle & Mary Ruefle on the joy of blackout poetry (Austin Kleon) 🎥 The Life of a Poet: Mary Ruefle 🦄 new month, less baggage 🦄 You are strong enough 🦄 “Just sit.” Steven Pressfield 🦄 Wants and needs, Seth Godin 🌑 Annie Dillard on the Stunning Otherworldliness of a Total Solar Eclipse 🌟 Jen Butler 🎥 Dream Alliance 🐎
Tracking my days + counting weeks assists me in being attentive to my energies.
- It helps me to be aware of the cyclical energies, habits and patterns of my living — and to resist overthinking/fretting about the “highs and lows” of those cycles.
- Chronicling these events also helps me to identify the details and decisions of what I can influence and modify — and release myself from any undue sense of duty or responsibility regarding what I cannot influence or modify.
We need some sort of triggering event that leads us to step back and think bigger-picture.
Katy Milkman
The past year has felt like an ongoing, triggering event of stepping back and thinking big-picture. It started March 2023, when a series of events started that continually offered me the opportunity to explore what I truly want and value in whatever years I have remaining.
The events that have occurred since March 2023 have offered me opportunities to conclude, alter and re-envision my living. New habits have formed and old wounds have healed (or been cauterized) allowing me to make wiser choices.
It is for you to decide who you are, not who another has been or has failed to be.
Neale Donald Walsch
Braveheart, today marks a new lunar phase — and a solar eclipse — a marvelous opportunity to declare a Day One. To release what no longer serves and make a shift toward new habits, and celebrate a day of decision regarding whatever has waited long enough. 🍀
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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