I had made this really fantastic video that I wanted to share with you today.
And I started uploading it yesterday at lunch time.? It’s pretty long… I left it to upload overnight and this morning I woke up to see the upload had failed.
So then I set it to upload in a different way, then went out for coffee and journaling.? And came home to find the upload failed again.
Now it’s uploading, slowly, but my wish to share it with you today is just not going to come true.
I found myself getting all stressed out because I’m not going to be able to stick to my plan.? And all the tiny little fears and doubts and inner critics used that stress as a doorway to step into my experience.
Until I remembered: this is part of it. Working with what is and transforming it into wishes come true.
This is what?Grow Your Depth, Nurture Your Brilliance is about and this is what the video is about that I want to share with you – an in-depth tour of my journal and all the magic I’ve been finding in it.
I brought everything I was feeling into my journal, where I had been exploring the first set of prompts that I am giving people inside Grow Your Depth, Nurture Your Brilliance and then it dawned on me: a better way to do this.
I can share the video on Monday – that gives me all weekend to get it uploaded.
And today I can share the first set of prompts that I am giving people in this program and also share what I’m doing with them.
This kind of lit something up inside me: this is a way better plan!? It means you get some prompts to play with over the weekend!
Even if you’re not joining Grow Your Depth, Nurture Your Brilliance, you can explore these ideas for yourself in your journal.
Creative Journal Prompts for Grow Your Depth, Nurture Your Brilliance:
Healing and transformation are difficult things to track because when done right, you feel so at home in your new way of being that you forget how things used to be.
Tracking your progress is important because when you can look back and clearly see how you?ve grown, that gives you confidence to keep going. Plus the process of tracking is very clarifying, and healing and transformation are often confusing so practices that generate clarity are always helpful.
So that’s why we’re starting with these particular creative journal prompts.
Spend some time with each prompt and follow your thoughts wherever they lead you, even if it means you don?t quite answer the question. The point of this is to get a snapshot of where you?re at right now as you begin.
Grow Your Depth, Nurture Your Brilliance is a support system for deepening your journaling practice.
(If you’re not sure what that means follow this link for more info)
What does this mean to you?
What do you want your practice to be like?
What do you wish will happen for you in this process?
What are you worried might happen?
Look over your answers – what feels really important to you?
In what ways would you like to grow your depths?
In what ways would you like to nurture your brilliance?
As you grow your depth you naturally nurture your brilliance, you start to shine more brightly and your possibilities start to shine more brightly as well. Specifically, what new possibilities do you want to create for your life in this program?
My answers:
This is my page for exploring the creative journal prompts, in process:
(In the video that I’ll share on Monday I talk a lot about how I approach the creative part of journaling)
Grow Your Depth, Nurture Your Brilliance is a support system for deepening your journaling practice.
What does this mean to you?
- to be more committed to my practice, both in being more present with it when I do it, and to spend more time with it
- getting more magic out of my practice
(Ugh.? At this point I realised my answers were really kind of “Stuck in my head” type answers.? Like I was already resisting the magic.)
What do you want your practice to be like?
(This is where I let my heart take over answering and it started to feel much better)
- soft space to land no matter what’s happening in my life
- a miracle-generator
- safe private space to express anything
- sturdy container for healing and transformation
What do you wish will happen for you in this process?
- a more stable experience of healing + transformation, being more grounded in it
- for the things I want that currently feel impossible to become possible
What are you worried might happen?
- that my resistance goes nuts and stops me from going into the depths and I stay on the surface
- that I discover things about me that are hard to face
Look over your answers – what feels really important to you?
- when I used the words: sturdy and grounded they felt really important.? I’ve been doing healing + transformation work for 20 years, it doesn’t feel like I want to change what I’ve been doing as much as do it in a more grounded way, and feel more study during the process of it.
In what ways would you like to grow your depths?
- to have less resistance to feeling how I feel
- to be bolder in wanting what I really want
- to feel more connected to more parts of me more of the time
In what ways would you like to nurture your brilliance?
- to let my inner truth out faster? (hmm, is this true?? must explore further – maybe waiting until I feel safe is a good idea!)
- to let my inner truth out brighter, I can feel places where I hold back and I want to explore these places, learn more about why and how I hold back (so much of it is unconscious!) and look at ways of shining brighter that feel right for where I am right now.
As you grow your depth you naturally nurture your brilliance, you start to shine more brightly and your possibilities start to shine more brightly as well. Specifically, what new possibilities do you want to create for your life in this program?
- I want to be having more fun.? I feel like, with being more conscientious and present doing depth work in my journal every day that leaves me needing less alone introvert-recharging time which means I can have more playing-out-in-the-world time.
- I want my secret wish (which I don’t want to share) for the thing that I currently worry is impossible for me to have.
Then I added that image on the left, which spoke to me of having space for all parts of me to get what they need, which feels like what I really, really want from this.
This is exactly the class that I need this year and I am sooooo ready to start.
If you’re already signed up, you can start playing with these prompts now, and on Monday we’ll start sharing our answers (only if you want to, of course, it’s totally OK to keep all of your work to yourself) in our private classroom.
If you’re not signed up – I hope you will join us! When I connect with the heart and soul of Grow Your Depth, Nurture Your Brilliance, I can feel how each person who participates contributes in such a meaningful way – that we really are stronger together and each of us can dive in deeper to our own process because we’re doing this work in community.
And I’ll share that video of my journal with you on Monday.
