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Holiday self-care: visions versus reality

Holiday self-care: visions versus reality

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Hi all! I figured I’d share a selfie because: 1) I got my hair cut and it never looks this good! (Summer has arrived in Florida and with it my very poofy hair 😂). But 2) I also have to share with you my excitement!! I feel like maybe, just maybe, all this time following my breadcrumb trails, following joy and following myself home, is slowly weaving together to form a story! Like, all the random detours and meanderings had purpose (imagine that!) 😮 😁 I’ll write more soon about where it’s leading me, but just know I’m cooking up some fun projects related to my art and writing that I can’t wait to share with you. In the meantime I wanted to say if you feel like you are on a journey where you can only see two feet in front of you, keep the faith. I believe in you! It might be too soon to see the big picture but you will when it’s time. ❤️ 💪 Now...back to enjoying not looking like Marge from the Simpsons. Swipe right to see what that looks like! Lol!!! ☀️ 🌞 #justfollowthejoy #joy #creativepath #artistsway #loveyourself #awakening #selflove #yougotthis #artistsoninstagram

Me on the phone just now with my husband: “Hey hon, sorry I got so angry earlier when you were pointing out how flaky I can be with details. Maybe it hit a little too close to home...” Husband: “ya think?!” Me: “anyway I was calling because I can’t find the French press! I looked in every cupboard!” Husband: “It’s right in front of you on the kitchen counter.” Pause. “Just own it, hon.” 🤦‍♀️😂 ✌🏻 #scatterbrain #vatadosha #headintheclouds #ownit #creatives #creativespirit #justfollowthejoy #frenchpressmornings #coffeetime☕ #vataproblems

I had a super rad dream last night. I was in this class & just not feeling it. I kinda bullshitted my way through some exams & wasn’t at all enthusiastic about the material. They were law school classes (LOL about right! Says former law student me) and at one point this professor who kind of looked like a blonde Bobby Flay (?! 😆) was realllly pissed at me because I wasn’t giving him the respect he thought he deserved! Get this: he was teaching a class on “home law” which I think means in my dream he represented the conventions of what our daily life should adhere to. 📋📓 At this point in the dream I call out his bs and everyone was like OMG!! And I realize, ‘wait, I can DROP this class! Why am I still here?! Peace out all!’ 😂 . The moral of the story: don’t let yourself believe that the Bobby Flay patriarchy has to run the show, so to speak. Screw conventionality! Be original, be you! . I’m currently being called to bring my original creations forward and it’s scary. We are told our entire life that power is something outside of us...but of course it isn’t! Dorothy had what she needed to return home the entire time...and so do you and I. However, to reclaim our power we must stare down all the conventional beliefs. While it’s easy to point the finger to Bobby Flay, these beliefs & programming are *within* ourselves. Be gone outdated beliefs that no longer serve!! 👊 . it’s hard, but it’s meant to be hard! That’s part of the journey of any birth, literal or figurative! [Despite that woman in Ina May’s Childbirth book who had an orgasm giving birth...I think most of us can confidently assert that actual birth is NOT easy!] But it doesn’t mean it can’t be done. 🌿 Soooo...who wants to join me in defying the conventional opinion! Ready to ‘drop the class’ with me?! ........ (Also, I hold no personal grudge against Bobby Flay the human being. You do you Bobby Flay! 😆) #joy #rumi #rumiquotes #divinefeminine #sufi #awakening #meditation #knowthyself #ascension #oneness #spirituality #paradigmshift #awareness #newparadigm #makersgonnamake #creativity #youcreateyourownreality #justfollowthejoy

“The hardest part is stopping and starting!” In riding a bike, yes (—my daughter learned how this week!—) but I think it’s also true for creative flow. I was feeling so out of flow recently and it was a struggle to create art. I couldn’t seem to start it up again! At one point my inner drill-sergeant was barking, ‘get to work! Feel joy, damn it! Create some joyous art already!’ Um no. 🙄 You can’t force it! I mean you can, but then it becomes drudgery. So what’s a blocked artist to do? As luck would have it, this week’s Artist’s Way discussed this very topic. “As it is with all playmates, it is joy, not duty, that makes for a lasting bond.” Not drill sergeants. Not sterile rooms. Not guilt, shame, obedience. Just love and patience and the willingness to dislodge what blocks you. For me it took a combination of loads of time in nature, doing some journaling, and making kid art which is SO freeing! (I make more of a mess than my daughter, ha!) Starting is hard, stopping is hard. But once you find that rhythm, ahhhh, freedom! Video: my daughter and me cruising! Why is my coffee holder empty?! 🤔 Photos: picture from @juliacameronlive ‘s The Artist’s Way/ picture taken by me from an early morning bike ride 🌅 . . . #joy #justfollowthejoy #flow #creativity #artistsway #creative #creativeprocess #makersgonnamake #doitfortheprocess #imagination #creativelifehappylife #calledtobecreative #makersmovement #creativeminds #communityovercompetition #creativityfound #creativepreneur #creativelife

Well my husband is singing sea shanties and my daughter has already asked for candy approx 15x...holiday weekend vibes in full force! I took a walk to center myself in the midst of my happy family chaos (👏) and picked these lovely ferns! I’m feeling inspired to press them and maybe frame them if they turn out ok! It’s probably been decades since I’ve done this! 🍃 🌱 Any tips y’all? I thought you used wax paper but Martha Stewart tells me (via her website) to use parchment, and another website says if they are fresh (um yeah isn’t that the point lol) then you need blotting paper?! What is that and can I sub with generic brand paper towels instead? 🤔 😂 💐 Happy Easter and Passover to those who celebrate! . . . . . #pressedflowers #pressedferns #diycrafts #diyhomedecor #justfollowthejoy #mindfullness #gooutside

Loving the synchronicity of this! Read this quote yesterday after just having posted about how awe-inspiring it is to see tiny changes add up. 🌱 Whenever I picture big changes in my life I imagine the heavens parting and major momentous proclamations and sweeping changes... but it doesn’t work like that AT. ALL. 🤔At least not in my experience. For me it’s like, oh I guess I’ll try doing this thing that kinda scares me (in a good way, not a creepy clown sort of way). And all those mundane little things add up eventually but you can’t see it for a while usually. Don’t be defeated though. It’s all building toward something beautiful! 💭 So what #tinychangegoals do you have? Also that’s not a real hashtag lol. 👍 My tiny change goal is to not stay up until 1am watching @queereye however @janethevirginoncw is back (FINALLY!!) so this goal doesn’t bode well for me. 😂 Any other QE or Jane fans in the house? #inspirationalquotes #artistsway #growcreativity #justfollowthejoy #tinychanges #artistsoninstagram #juliacameron #artaslife #spirituality #spiritualpractice

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