[TL;DR] It is time for me to turn the page and begin a new chapter. I hope you will continue onward with me. ~in gratitude ❤️
There are seasons of living when the time and space between knowing what is best and actually doing what is best is vast, or simply complicated in its details.
- Self-compassion can become our parachute, stabilizing our descent when we make the decision to leap into life-changes riddled with unknowns.
- Sequences and routines are also stabilizers, ways of engaging in the actual doing in spite of the unknowns and emotions of life-changes.
Try sitting down in the same place at the same time for the same amount of time every day and see what happens.
Austin Kleon
Writing for me is a mode of being, of expression, processing and envisioning.
Stories and writing have been my safe space for my entire life. Library books and the stories-unfolding within my imagination sustained me through my loneliness as a young girl and into my teen years.
My college years introduced me to ideas and opportunities I could never have imagined! 🍀
- My reading comprehension was challenged due to a bouquet of undiagnosed reading disorders, but that did not curtail my curiosity or prevent me from spending hours reading + compiling color-coded notes from a wide-variety of books—or savoring my time as I read (seated on the glass floors or corner reading nooks of The Decks section) in the University of Oklahoma library.
Right brain planning became a visual language + a way to envision my heart desires during my undergraduate studies. Standard planners became visual journals as I navigated the details of time challenges of working, studying, and class schedules.
- Right brain planning became the path that led to self-directed learning and resuming freelance work during graduate school. (When I was discouraged by my academic advisor about my ideas to produce and market a creative “planner.”) 😉
- Right brain planning became my way through caring for and educating my children, cancer and family estrangements, followed by two decades of various life adventures and losses, sorrows and miscellaneous choices that led to the healing I am currently savoring. ❤️
Braveheart, I am turning the page to a new chapter. A pilgrim’s journey; a metaphorical journey into my beliefs and living.
- No fixed plans but led by the intention to allow my writing to continue to empower me to know myself and live the life I imagine.
Maybe I have an overly robust ego, but the bald truth is that I have always believed in my [writing].
Maggie Nelson
Me, too. 😎 For whatever reason, I always had a confidence about my writing and artwork. I have never “needed” anyone to read what I write or affirm its value or usefulness.
- Noting, of course, that moving through doubt and angst is an essential part of one’s confidence.
I know that everything in Life cycles, and my writing weaves strength and resolve into those cycles. And that is what I will rely on during the next cycle of my living.
- When I experience a pause of motivation for days (or weeks) I will trust my pace, as I remind myself that such times are simply part of the process—a reality of Life.
- I will allow my writing (and creativity) to be the open window I need to see beyond the immediate.
- Leaning into curiosity and possibility (instead of fear and what-if’s) is to live a creative life — cycling through the seen and unseen (light and darkness, like the moon).
Accepting the ending of something that you thought would be a constant is a feeling that lingers for a while.
Morgan Harper Nichols
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~love & good wishes~
❤️ 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).
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