I’ve always been an obsessive writer, and before age slowed me down, my rush to write sometimes kept me from seeing the beauty around me.
Parker J. Palmer
Having a weekly guide word is one of the ways flow is sustained for me. These weekly reviews are the ongoing backstory that empowers me to process what I am curious about, and how I live + chronicle what matters most to me.
TL;DR — Breath-by-breath and step-by-step is the only way through the frailty of our existence, and this begins with attention.
Your own reasons to make are reason enough. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.
Elizabeth Gilbert
May there be space for you to identify what you need and how it might help you move through the day.
Morgan Harper Nichols
📿 My guide word for this past week was [attention] as a reminder to be mindful in the moment, but also willing to take the next step.
Attention is an invitation to live wholeheartedly (even when your heart may feel “broken”).
Knowing how to respond is impossible without knowing what’s motivating someone.
Mark Manson
As we learn that we’re responsible for our own emotions, we become more comfortable with the idea that others are responsible for their own emotions too. With this mind-set, we can finally relax—and begin to heal.
Jackson MacKenzie
Right Brain Planner resources are designed to support a self-paced creative practice of chronicling your story-unfolding according the rhythms of nature (instead of a constant state of busyness, feeling behind and “shoulding” yourself).
Creativity isn’t the freedom of infinite colors. It’s the art of working with what you have.
Marcus Goodyear
- “Words are things.” Maya Angelou 🎥
- BBC Music cover version of Brian Wilson’s song, God Only Knows 🎶
- Jumpstart Your Creativity, Corinne Cunningham 🎥
- art beyond the product (it is a process) 🎧
- Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky with Miley Cyrus 🎥
- “Everything that happens to us started somewhere we have probably forgotten about, that probably seemed benign at the time.” -Miley Cyrus
- Regarding people who impose their judgments are behaving in a weak and lazy way.
- “Everything that happens to us started somewhere we have probably forgotten about, that probably seemed benign at the time.” -Miley Cyrus
- Your Brain’s Not Broken by Tamara Rosier PhD 📖✨
- The Artist’s Way, Chapter 2 📖✨
- Learning to Fly … 🦅
- Audience of One by Srinivas Rao 📖✨
- We Need Your Art by Amie McNee 📖✨
- On the Brink of Everything, Parker J. Palmer 🖥️
- 🗝️🗝️🗝️ the keys to ongoingness
- 📥 June-July lunar templates
- 💌 overwhelm as an invitation
- 📌 Content from ➡️ Any Day Can Be Day One Guide, page 6
- … continuing to learn how to fly 🪽
- mind your business
- ✅ Right brain planning is how I now define alchemy:
- 🌕 full moon prompt
- [visioning for the full 🌕 moon]
- 🌕 letting go & moving on (day-by-day)
- [identity] details that make life worth living
- 📁 free downloads
- [alchemy] captive by the 🪄 magic of my dreams
- 🗺️❤️📚🧮 [backstory chapter of Right Brain Planner]
- Be your own hero. K? ❤️
- 🙏 [ever-grateful for my communities]
- lunar 🌓 check-in 📱
*[Some of these posts are visible to members and followers only, and linked here as a personal record.]
Attention is the beginning of devotion.
Mary Oliver
Self-devotion is the Right Brain Planner June theme; my focus is [to give my attention to] prioritizing what I need. This includes cycling like the 🌙 moon and trusting my phases.
I am currently compiling the third Right Brain Planner Guide for 2025. Although I had already outlined the theme, I had no idea how vital the timing would be for me personally.
- The focus is the creative (spiritual) practice renewing our minds—particularly essential when we are living in a spiral of overwhelm and challenging circumstances.
The third Guide for 2025* will offer simple prompts to use for realigning our thoughts; ideas for restoring inner calm and self-soothing.
- But also, devoting oneself to a practice of being in the moment, to chronicle as we begin to process what we are experiencing. They gave me a structure through which to see things and an easy way to begin building a habit.
*Available the first week of July.
Thank you kindly for your presence here, Braveheart. 💗
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
2025 Right Brain Planner theme is [Chapters 📖 The Magic of Your Story Unfolding]. I publish cyclical resources + quarterly guides with art and instructional content. ✨
Right Brain Planning Basics | Day One Guide | Guide 3 (available July 2025) | Guide 4
⭐️ 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). 🫶