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June 2, 2020
Listening
As I chanted George Floyd’s name in front of the White House tonight, everything hurt. Especially my heart. Inside I feel a blend of deep sadness coupled with outrage.
I’m using this time to listen, read, and stand in solidarity. I have so much to learn and am eager to take on the role of an ally. Will you join me?
Below are a few resources to help us grow.
A Running List of Anti-Racism Resources
How to Be Better Allies
An Essential Guide to Fighting Racism
How to Check Your Privilege
A Guide to Be an Ally
Race History Lesson
How to Be a Good White Ally
Tranquility du Jour podcasts #451 and #491
Becoming documentary trailer
Together we can make a difference. It starts from within. Please join me in listening, loving, and growing. Bisous. x
Illustration by Chelsea Hughes
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June 1, 2020
Tranquility du Jour #491: Being an Ally
In this week’s edition of Tranquility du Jour, I chat with returning guest Jamia Wilson about what’s happening in America right now, how to be an ally, anti-racism, and how to heal.
New to Tranquility du Jour? Learn more here.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/hiptranquilchick/tdj491.mp3
Direct download: Tranquility du Jour #491: Being an Ally.
Upcoming Events
TDJ Brunch: June 6 noon-1 pm ET
Learn ways to find doses of tranquility in your every day plus signature style tips
TDJ Live: June 21 at 8-9 pm ET
Free seasonal gathering to connect and learn 8 tranquility tips for the new season
Guest: Jamia Wilson
Jamia is a feminist activist, writer, and speaker. She is the director and publisher of the Feminist Press, author of Young, Gifted, and Black, the introduction and oral history in Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World, Step Into Your Power: 23 Lessons on How to Live Your Best Life, ABC’s of AOC, Big Ideas for Young Thinker, and the co-author of Roadmap for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Advocacy, and Activism for All.
Photo by Bogdana Ferguson.
Mentioned in the Podcast
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. MLK
Read: CNN Article on How to be an Ally
Watch: Knock Down the House
Read: Coronavirus Anxiety Workbook
Read This If You’re Feeling Helpless After Last Week’s Tragedies
Read: Feminist Press Black Lives Matter Reading List
Read: Roadmap for Revolutionaries (There’s an updated version of the ally piece in this book and tactical tips for protests)
Read: Me and White Supremacy
Read: Black Lives Matter Explained
Infographic from AOC’s Instagram
Find our Guest
https://www.facebook.com/jamia.wilson
https://www.instagram.com/jamiaawilson/
https://twitter.com/jamiaw
http://www.jamiawilson.com/
Previous Tranquility du Jour podcast interview #429: Feminism and More
Let’s Connect
Join our TDJ Insider’s Facebook group. Share resources, get inspiration, make connections.
Share a review on iTunes, Amazon, or Goodreads and you may hear it shared on the show. Deets on kimberlywilson.com/review.
Visit kimberlywilson.com/podcast for more episodes and the Tranquility du Jour Podcast App: iPhone and Android.
Subscribe in your favorite podcast app such as Spotify, Apple Podcast or Overcast.
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Browse my 6 Books.
Follow along on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube (check out the Tea with Kimberly video series).
Shop seasonless, vegan, locally-made, eco-friendly fashion: TranquiliT.
Tech
To listen, click on the player at the top of the post or click here to listen to older episodes.
New to podcasting? Get more info at Podcast 411.
Do you have iTunes? Click here and subscribe to the podcast to get the latest episode as released.
Get the Tranquility du Jour apps to download the podcast “automagically” on iOS or Android
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May 31, 2020
May in Review
Hello love! Each month I do a review of the month and also share my next month’s dreams. This reflection exercise allows me to stay accountable, review goals, celebrate, and note what needs adjustment. I duplicate this process in my Daybook, too, since I’m a paper lover! You’ll also find an assortment of photos from the month plus Savvy Sources I thought you may enjoy. Bisous. x
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May in Review
Daily exercise classes [MOSTLY—25 ballet/barre/yoga/hip hop classes]
Return to writing [IN PROGRESS]
Finalize Welcome Series [YES!]
Create masterclass [FINALIZING—WILL REVEAL AT TDJ LIVE]
Read three books [YES—Do Less, How to Be Fine, Confessions of a Sociopath] TranquiliT efforts [YES!]
Set up therapy software [DECIDED AGAINST]
Design and send KWTherapy newsletter [STILL TO DO]
Complete e-course [YES!]
Declutter home [STARTED AND DONATED ONE BIG BOX]
Big picture thinking [IN PROGRESS]
May Highlights
Hosted the May Virtual Retreat (thanks for supporting!)
Biked with Gizmo and Tim
Went on a virtual farm sanctuary tour through Airbnb experiences
Had video calls with friends
Received good news on a health issue
Adopted Monita from Redapes.org (Dad says she looks like me)
Picked up microgreens (shown above + flowers) during a farmers’ market jaunt
Enjoyed afternoon walks in the woods
Collaborated with clients
Savored pink peonies around DC
Started the Science of Well-being course through Coursera.org
Released four podcasts and two Tea with K videos
Sat around a campfire
June Dreams
Daily exercise class
Memoir writing
Finalize and set up TDJ welcome series
Host inspiring TDJ Brunch on June 6 and TDJ Live on June 21
Plan and share July offering
TranquiliT efforts
Design and release Therapy newsletter
Record four new Tea with K videos
Release five podcasts
Celebrate 47th birthday
Read three books
Savvy Sources
A Guide to Be an Ally
9 Books Every Woman Should Read
Donate to George Floyd Memorial Fund
Recipe: Creamy Vegan Spinach and Asparagus Risotto
10 Ways to Be Your Own Best Friend
Adopt Your Own Orangutan
Classes to Help You Survive the Shutdown and Become Well-Rounded
Free Online Learning from Paris
An Essential Reading Guide for Fighting Racism
Recipe: Vegan Acai Cherry Smoothie Bowl
Virtual Art Therapy with the MMFA
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May 26, 2020
Everyday Tranquility {PDF + Invite}
Welcome to a brand new week. I’m writing to share the latest Tea with Kimberly video highlighting ideas on finding more moments of tranquility in our everyday lives.
More of a visual learner? Me, too! Here’s a PDF to print and post above your desk or tuck inside your planner for a daily reminder.
Wishing you space to breathe, move, and experience gentleness. Bisous. x
PS I’ll be hosting the next TDJ Virtual Brunch with a side of TranquiliT on Saturday, June 6 at noon ET. Learn ways to find doses of tranquility in your every day! I’ll also share signature style tips to transition into summer and WFH with ease. Sign up here.
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Tranquility du Jour #490: Planner Love
In this week’s edition of Tranquility du Jour, I chat with Marianne Talbot about her planner, Balance by Design, and with returning guest and Tranquility du Jour Daybook connoisseur Barbara Bitondo about her passion and personalization of her Daybook.
New to Tranquility du Jour? Learn more here.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/hiptranquilchick/tdj490.mp3
Direct download: Tranquility du Jour #490: Planner Love.
Upcoming Events
TranquiliT 25% off sale
Shop this locally-sewn, eco-friendly clothing line’s 12 best-sellers in all our colors
TDJ Brunch: TBA
TDJ Live: June 21 at 8-9 pm ET
Free seasonal gathering to connect and learn 8 tranquility tips for the new season
Guests: Marianne Talbot and Barbara Bitondo
Marianne is a professional coach, author, attorney, business development strategist, stress and well-being expert, – and a mom – who truly understands the burdens, pressures, commitments, and stress women experience every day. Marianne was a trial attorney for 14 years, was a law professor, had her own companies coaching and training high-performance professionals in New York City, and now does business development training and coaching for attorneys. Marianne loves to teach people how to develop entrepreneurial mindsets which can open up new professional and personal opportunities for anyone who is looking to create new amazing possibilities in their lives.Mariannne’s first book, Balance By Design™: A Career Guide & Planner for Women Lawyers With a Life, was published in 2019, and her forthcoming book, Balance by Design (TM): A Career Guide & Planner for Working Women Who Slay All Day will be published in Autumn 2020. Part weekly planner and part playbook, her books contain over 200+ pages of personal and career development strategies and resources, wheels of life, loads of inspirational quotes, personal and professional toolkits, and most importantly, beautifully designed weekly planning pages that will help you keep track of the many roles and jobs you juggle every day.
Marianne’s website is www.MarianneTalbot.com and you can reach her at hello@MarianneTalbot.com
Barbara BITONDO designs knowledge solutions in Washington, DC and is a longtime tranquilista who has been creatively customizing her
Tranquility du Jour Daybooks
since 2014.Now, when I say customizing, I do not mean sprinkling some extra tranquility here with washi tape, but an actual amped up approach to the self-printing process. Barbara elevates the art of planning calm into a full, rich and meaningful life with her Daybook, to producing a dynamic LIFE BOOK bursting with journal prompts, space for more reflection, art journaling, flower petals, check lists and really, so much more!
She curates the TDJ content she likes best, then prints six, two-month, bound journals around Daybook pages rearranged and augmented with specially sequenced excerpts from my other books and emerging material such as the quarterly TDJ Live PDFs, retreat playbooks, and Salon guides.
Mentioned in the Podcast
First interview with Barbara: Herbalism
Barbara’s step-by-step approach:
Open all the PDFs on my computer and print the chapters and essays I want for the month. I usually print everything single sided landscape on 8.5*11 paper then stick the pages back into the printer and print lined pages with the coffee stain (2018 planner, lined pages from 2019 planner and dot pages from Year of tranquility on the back side and set aside.
Then I print and assemble the monthly planner pages and print those single sided landscape on 8.5*11 paper *Monthly spread, Dreams page from 2014, dreams list page, moon page, also life review page, petal pages, budget pages and flower pages, then I stick these back into the printer and print the lined and dot pages on the back and set aside
Then I print the weekly spreads. Even though I live by the lunar calendar and begin each month on the dark moon, and end on the eve of the new moon, I live and work in a culture that goes by theGregorian calendar (solar calendar with 12 months of 28–31 days each) so I print and use both simultaneously. So I print 10 sets of weekly spread that include four lined pages between each week for my weekly meeting notes. This is a bit tricky since I set up the series of pages to print starting with a lined page, the planner spread, then an odd number of lined pages and repeat that print run ten times.
I always print ten or twelve flower pages double sided on card stock to use on the front and back and throughout the book to mark time and sections.
When all my components are double sided in piles on my work table I assemble the book methodically flipping the pages as if they were bound to make sure every spread opens correctly.
Because I am a designer and work with print assembling material like this comes easily. When my book is in order I measure 8.5*8.5 inches. mark the crop marks, stick the stack into large mailing envelope and take it to the print shop where they cut and spiral bind it for me.
It takes about 2 hours to print and assemble my books, then another hour to get it to and from the printers. I think I pay about $36 dollars for each book.
Find our Guests
Barbara
Marianne
Let’s Connect
Join our TDJ Insider’s Facebook group. Share resources, get inspiration, make connections.
Share a review on iTunes, Amazon, or Goodreads and you may hear it shared on the show. Deets on kimberlywilson.com/review.
Visit kimberlywilson.com/podcast for more episodes and the Tranquility du Jour Podcast App: iPhone and Android.
Subscribe in your favorite podcast app such as Spotify, Apple Podcast or Overcast.
Sign up for Love Notes (exclusive content, personal updates, giveaways) and access multimedia resources, Tranquil Treasures.
Browse my 6 Books.
Follow along on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube (check out the Tea with Kimberly video series).
Shop seasonless, vegan, locally-made, eco-friendly fashion: TranquiliT.
Tech
To listen, click on the player at the top of the post or click here to listen to older episodes.
New to podcasting? Get more info at Podcast 411.
Do you have iTunes? Click here and subscribe to the podcast to get the latest episode as released.
Get the Tranquility du Jour apps to download the podcast “automagically” on iOS or Android
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May 21, 2020
How’s Your Creative Side?
Julia Cameron coined the Artist Date as a weekly solo adventure that nourishes one’s creative spark.
Although I love encouraging activities like museums, bookstores, art galleries, cafes, live music, tea salons, parks, and gardens, now it’s all about Artist Dates at home which is lovely, too.
Ideas to get you started:
Create in your journal
Virtually visit museums and national parks
Design a vision board on Pinterest
Try a new recipe
Set up a creative space
Learn origami
Make your own blend of tea
May 18, 2020
Tranquility du Jour #489: The Pleasure Plan
In this week’s edition of Tranquility du Jour, I chat with Laura Zam about her new bestselling book, The Pleasure Plan. Hear Laura’s journey to better understand her body, how to create your own pleasure hour, and the truth behind a sex brunch (it’s not what you think).
New to Tranquility du Jour? Learn more here.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/hiptranquilchick/tdj489.mp3
Direct download: Tranquility du Jour #489: The Pleasure Plan.
Upcoming Events
TranquiliT 25% off sale
Shop this locally-sewn, eco-friendly clothing line’s 12 best-sellers in all our colors
TDJ Live: June 21 at 8-9 pm ET
Free seasonal gathering to connect and learn 8 tranquility tips for the new season
Guest: Laura Zam
Laura Zam is the author of The Pleasure Plan: One Woman’s Search for Sexual Healing (HCI Books / Simon & Schuster). She’s also a speaker, playwright, Certified Trauma Professional, Sexuality Educator, and women’s health advocate whose work focuses on reclaiming sexual health.Aside from her book, Laura’s writing appears in The New York Times, Salon, HuffPost, Sheknows, NextTribe and other publications, as well as in seven book anthologies. In 2013, her one-person play about healing in the aftermath of childhood sexual abuse, Married Sex, was presented at the New York International Fringe Festival and Off-Broadway. Other one-person plays, keynotes, and speeches have been presented at The Kennedy Center, the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum, The National Theatre, Columbia University, American Psychological Association, Verizon, and many other venues in the U.S. and abroad.
Media outlets that have covered Zam’s work include NPR, The Washington Post, PBS, ABC-TV, The HuffPost, The Guardian UK, and others. As an educator, Laura has been conducting storytelling workshops with trauma survivors for the past twenty years, working with post-war teens from Bosnia, young adults from the Middle East, wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and victims of sexual violation.
Workshop venues include the Omega Center, Walter Reed Army Hospital, and the DC Rape Crisis Center. Grants include a Playwriting Fellowship from Brown University, Amiri Baraka Literary Prize, an Open Society Fund grant (Soros Foundation), a Tennessee Williams Fellowship, and five Artist Fellowships from DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Laura has taught at Brown University, UC Berkeley, George Mason, and other colleges. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Brown University, where she studied with Pulitzer Prize winners Paula Vogel and Nilo Cruz.
She’s a member of the National Speakers Association, Actor’s Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA, and the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists. Laura currently offers workshops, talks, and online courses related to sexual wellness. Visit her at LauraZam.com.
Mentioned in the Podcast
First podcast with Laura from 2009: Musings on Leaving Your Day Job
Blog post on Mental Health during Quarantine
Us speaking at The Wing last December on Women’s Health at Midlife
Find our Guest
@facebook/laurazamauthor
@Twitter/laurazam
@Instagram/laurazam_author
@LinkedIn/laurazam
Let’s Connect
Share a review on iTunes, Amazon, or Goodreads and you may hear it shared on the show. Deets on kimberlywilson.com/review.
Visit kimberlywilson.com/podcast for more episodes and the Tranquility du Jour Podcast App: iPhone and Android.
Subscribe in your favorite podcast app such as Spotify, Apple Podcast or Overcast.
Sign up for Love Notes (exclusive content, personal updates, giveaways) and access multimedia resources, Tranquil Treasures.
Browse my 6 Books.
Follow along on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube (check out the Tea with Kimberly video series).
Shop seasonless, vegan, locally-made, eco-friendly fashion: TranquiliT.
Tech
To listen, click on the player at the top of the post or click here to listen to older episodes.
New to podcasting? Get more info at Podcast 411.
Do you have iTunes? Click here and subscribe to the podcast to get the latest episode as released.
Get the Tranquility du Jour apps to download the podcast “automagically” on iOS or Android
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May 14, 2020
Daily Dress-Up Made Easy
Over the next two weeks we’re exploring the eight daily Tranquility Tools on Facebook and Instagram, so I wanted to give insight into the second one, daily dress-up.
This Washington Post article came out at the start of quarantine and describes how our clothes tell a story. Robin Givhan writes, “Fashion is a form of communication that is both intimate and aloof. Without ever uttering a word, you stand behind your message because you are, in fact, wearing it. Clothing is an eloquent form of communication for the inarticulate.”
It may feel unnecessary to dress-up if you’re not seeing anyone and spend your days chasing after a wayward toddler or sitting in front of a computer job searching, but there’s something about getting out of those pajamas that signifies a start to the day.
Givhan noted, “. . . going through an entire day in loungewear, it is easy to lose yourself and your sense of purpose and focus. Our clothes create boundaries. They mark time.”
Many of us have lost our commute and need to don a blazer (or whatever may be typical in your line of work). Both denote the transition to a different identity—our professional hat. Now our days and roles may feel blurred. There’s no demarcation of “Off to work!” or “I’m home and ready for leisure,” so we have to create it on our own.
I’m not sure when I started wearing the 2in1 fitted top and capri leggings year-round (basically loungewear, don’t tell Givhan), but it’s been a few years and having this “uniform” has saved me countless hours pondering what to wear and what to pack. Oh the drama!
Using these two pieces as my base, I can create looks for a variety of activities—pig petting, monument viewing, yoga teaching, cafe sitting, pug walking, balleting, and note taking.
Add-ons include a blazer for a more professional vibe, the long sleeve wrap tunic for a comforting layer that swaddles my body, or I’ll slip a vintage skirt over the ensemble. Here are 21 looks.
While you may not feel inspired to dress up these days, I get it, and that’s where a uniform makes it easy peasy. I’ll see clients (virtually, of course), take a ballet class, handle things around the house, jump on a Zoom meeting, and sit fireside to binge Mrs. America—all without changing.
Sure I’ll add a neck scarf, red lips, and eye makeup for videos, but otherwise I’m all set. Every. Day.
What would make your dress-up easier during these times? What’s the story you’re telling even with no audience? Bisous. x
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May 12, 2020
Mental Health During Quarantine
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and it couldn’t be coming at a better time. We need to shine the light on our emotional health.
When the world feels like it’s spinning or those emotions are whirling, dig into those grounding practices that have helped over the years.
Think meditation, journaling, gardening, exercise, walking, yoga, connecting with loved ones, establishing routine, eating whole foods, gratitude, deep rest, nourishing entertainment—whatever is most helpful to you right now. Build on what’s worked in the past!
With the overwhelming influx of anxiety and depression being felt around the globe, my wish is to share a few tools that may help you and/or loved ones navigate this time. Bisous. x
Videos
Curbing Anxiety
WFH (Working from home)
Curbing Anxiety 2
Supporting Each Other
TDJ Brunch: Artist Dates at Home and Seated Yoga/Meditation
TDJ Brunch: Being Gentle and Staying Focused
MP3
TDJ Brunch: Anxiety and WFH MP3
Additional Resources
Tools to Thrive
Coronavirus Anxiety Workbook
31 Tips to Boost Your Mental Health
Building Better Mental Health
PS
If there’s anything you’d like more of or any way I can serve you better right now, please let me know.
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Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and it couldn’t be coming at a better time. We need to shine the light on our emotional health.
When the world feels like it’s spinning or those emotions are whirling, dig into those grounding practices that have helped over the years.
Think meditation, journaling, gardening, exercise, walking, yoga, connecting with loved ones, establishing routine, eating whole foods, gratitude, deep rest, nourishing entertainment—whatever is most helpful to you right now. Build on what’s worked in the past!
With the overwhelming influx of anxiety and depression being felt around the globe, my wish is to share a few tools that may help you and/or loved ones navigate this time. Bisous. x
Videos
Curbing Anxiety
WFH (Working from home)
Curbing Anxiety 2
Supporting Each Other
TDJ Brunch: Artist Dates at Home and Seated Yoga/Meditation
TDJ Brunch: Being Gentle and Staying Focused
MP3
TDJ Brunch: Anxiety and WFH MP3
Additional Resources
Tools to Thrive
Coronavirus Anxiety Workbook
31 Tips to Boost Your Mental Health
Building Better Mental Health
PS
If there’s anything you’d like more of or any way I can serve you better right now, please let me know.
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