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Braveheart, as the summer of 2026 concludes, I am crossing over a new 🚪 threshold—and I couldn’t be more pleased or excited! 🥳🙌 I am celebrating an anniversary for Right Brain Planner and the conclusion of my radiation treatments for breast cancer. 🏥
☀️ This summer has been one of the best ever for me: special times with my children and grandchildren, new life plans with my partner and new wellness routines. ❤️
☑️ I am currently switching up how I host online support offerings. This will include expanding support for my Ko-fi patrons. And I would love for {you} to join in, Braveheart! 💕
🫂member comments and testimonials:
motivation to create | warm & welcoming | “I was surprised to feel so relaxed and seen…” | open and authentic | “I have learned to simply resume (without shame)…” | stronger together
Within the small groups I host, we focus on the benefit of fostering trust, ongoing support and inspiration—in addition to sharing practical ideas about our right brain planning practices.
💁🏻♀️ my motivation to host community support
- Slow is fast enough 🐌 when it comes to our progress.
- Being active in a community 💞 provides support and helps us to remember to trust your pace.
“We need to keep our minds prioritized on rooting out the messages of our old stories and focusing instead on the new, rewritten ones.” -Dr. Gail Saltz
- 🔎🧠💓 What we give our attention to has a significant and lasting effect on our well-being. ☮️
- In February, I invited my Ko-fi patrons to experiment with a 100-Day-Project. Little did I know that at the end of my 100-days I would begin a second 100-day-countdown project—because I definitely needed 🪄 the magic going forward.
Braveheart, we cannot think our way out of grief, anxiety and overwhelm. We cannot wish our way to a creative practice.
But we can make a decision to pause and hold those spaces—along with whatever we are experiencing—see ourselves, and self-compassionately [be present in that moment].
We can let go of living the same life over and over, and trust our pace—as we trust that we will know as we go.
The details of any practice will, of course, vary—but if you are interested in a right brain planning practice [expression + dated chronicle], ❤️ I hope you will join me here for 💡 ideas, resources 🖨️ along with options for community 👩🏽💻 support.
The principal goal of Right Brain Planner is to foster a daily-ish practice of [being present] + [seeing and evaluating] the details of our living by compiling a visual chronicle as a safe place to check in with ourselves. 💖
- Examples of how to pause + check in with ourselves: copy a quotation from something you are reading; snap a photo of the ☁️💙☁️ sky while noticing its details; pull an oracle 🃏 card and reflect on its meaning within your life; jot notes about your day, your 🪄 wishes and/or your 🚨 vents; a quick 📝 chronicle of the moon phases and weather on a monthly 📆 calendar; a one-line journal … there are lots of possibilities, Braveheart. 😊
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.
Thank you kindly for your presence here.
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
Artist’s Statement 😊🔮🔎📝🖌️🎨❤️📊
❤️ 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.
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!) ❤️