Life as a Canvas
Los Angeles sunset filled sky <3
A practice I have started up again, along with my sister which makes it all the more special, is morning pages. For those unfamiliar, it is a technique that Julia Cameron coined in her book The Artist’s Way. Summed up, it’s three pages of your thoughts dumped onto pages. Completely free form, possible nonsense, and extremely cathartic.
The barrier I often find myself up against when I am not operating at full capacity or simply don’t want to sit down to write, is the time it takes. But really, what is five minutes? And I know I feel better after, and if not better at least more clear and less cluttered. As I reflected on 2024 and even 2023, I was carrying a lot of ‘weight’ around emotionally. I felt/feel stuck in my career but didn’t know why; I know why now, my health seemed out of my hands; I have taken full ownership again, and I didn’t feel seen by the world; I am starting to feel seen.
The one big lesson I have learned is that it is you hand in hand with you at the end of the day. No one can force you to do anything, as easy as it is to blame others at times, it is you who gets yourself out of bed and decides the attitude and actions you take throughout the day. I mean wow. Lightbulb.
I have the world at my fingertips. I can do anything. And I needed a little reminder of that.
Lots of change is coming for me in 2025, all on my own initiative. And I cannot wait for the adventure ahead. Lots of exploration and lots of play. Two of my dear friends, teachers and mentors Paola Atloson and Aimee Grennacre are huge proponents of adult play. Having fun with life and don’t take it too seriously.
I am about to embark on a 9 day liver cleanse. I have felt sluggish and excessive for too many months to count and have really been searching for answers from other people. I am ready to make a change guided by my own beliefs and my own plan. I have done my research, and I encourage you to do yours. What works for me certainly may not work for you. There are plenty of people pushing all sorts of programs out there and I have engaged in so many that come the end of 2024 my head was ready to explode with contradicting information.
The next two weeks or so I am going to be playing with a regimen that to me feels like an aligned path to cleansing my liver so that it functions optimally, perhaps it might even thrive.
Your liver is a major major important organ. It is essentially in charge of all the detox happening inside of you. And having an over burdened liver can really do damage.
So I am starting with the basics, with support from teachers and healers I trust, and embarking on step 1 of getting to a fabulous level of baseline health this year.
Keep you updated! Have a lot of fun, play around in the new year, try something new with someone new?