This post hit home for me, Lisa…so thank you! I’ve been away from my journaling practice for a long time, and feeling terrible about it, until I’ve recently begun again. Thinking of this pause as part of the larger rhythm of my life helps enormously! Reframing my perspective is so much kinder to myself…. 🙏❤️
It's so good to see you here, KC! And I'm very happy to know that reframing pause as part of a larger rhythm is helpful. Thanks for sharing and I hope you crack open your sketchbook just to peek in and see what's there...
My sketchbooks/journals are evidence to me that I’m alive! At a time in my life when so much of my time is given in being caregiver for my husband, I lose my sense of who I am outside of that role. If I engage with my sketchbook, then I can see SOMETHING of myself reflected on the pages, and that’s life-affirming no matter how what the page looks like. Thank you ❤️
As a musician I very much resonate with this shift toward "rhythm." In most of the music I love, changes in the rhythm are not just permitted, they are points of interest, welcome variations, moments of anticipation before the return. This also brings to mind the idea of seasonality in life and allowing for different types of activity as life circumstances change. Seasons are just rhythms too right? Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful ideas.
Thanks, Rick - I’m a former musician, and also tree hugger out in nature all the time, so cycles and rhythms are something in constant observation. This helps me so much with my creative practice, the ebb and flow of it.
I see you’re at CIIS - looking forward to learning more about your work. I used to live in the Bay Area.
Recognizing the ebb and flow of life helps us redefine "success" in a much healthier way than we've been conditioned to push toward. Thanks for sharing how you apply that to your creative practice.
It is much kinder than pushing and striving. Those words immediately make me cringe and spin out. I choose to move through life with more ease and joy. ❤️
This is a great post Lisa and a powerful way to reframe moving away from thinking we have failed to embracing the real ebb and flow of our creativeness. Thank you 😊
Rhythm is something I've noticed about my different creative practices, but reading about it here helps me to name it as that, rather than taking a punitive approach! This helps me to be kinder to myself. Thank you.
This post hit home for me, Lisa…so thank you! I’ve been away from my journaling practice for a long time, and feeling terrible about it, until I’ve recently begun again. Thinking of this pause as part of the larger rhythm of my life helps enormously! Reframing my perspective is so much kinder to myself…. 🙏❤️
It's so good to see you here, KC! And I'm very happy to know that reframing pause as part of a larger rhythm is helpful. Thanks for sharing and I hope you crack open your sketchbook just to peek in and see what's there...
My sketchbooks/journals are evidence to me that I’m alive! At a time in my life when so much of my time is given in being caregiver for my husband, I lose my sense of who I am outside of that role. If I engage with my sketchbook, then I can see SOMETHING of myself reflected on the pages, and that’s life-affirming no matter how what the page looks like. Thank you ❤️
I agree. There is no benefit playing the blame shame game. 😉Life happens and rhythms and habits shift. I am striking behind from my vocabulary. 😉
As a musician I very much resonate with this shift toward "rhythm." In most of the music I love, changes in the rhythm are not just permitted, they are points of interest, welcome variations, moments of anticipation before the return. This also brings to mind the idea of seasonality in life and allowing for different types of activity as life circumstances change. Seasons are just rhythms too right? Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful ideas.
Thanks, Rick - I’m a former musician, and also tree hugger out in nature all the time, so cycles and rhythms are something in constant observation. This helps me so much with my creative practice, the ebb and flow of it.
I see you’re at CIIS - looking forward to learning more about your work. I used to live in the Bay Area.
Recognizing the ebb and flow of life helps us redefine "success" in a much healthier way than we've been conditioned to push toward. Thanks for sharing how you apply that to your creative practice.
It is much kinder than pushing and striving. Those words immediately make me cringe and spin out. I choose to move through life with more ease and joy. ❤️
This is a great post Lisa and a powerful way to reframe moving away from thinking we have failed to embracing the real ebb and flow of our creativeness. Thank you 😊
So glad you found it helpful. Everything is cyclic!
I love the ebb and flow idea. It sounds kinder and softer. ❤️
Rhythm is something I've noticed about my different creative practices, but reading about it here helps me to name it as that, rather than taking a punitive approach! This helps me to be kinder to myself. Thank you.