My Instagram Weekly Round Up – Finding the Holy in the Everyday

I'm obsessed with Instagram – it's my favorite online home! Here's a recap from the last week, and for those of you who aren't on Instagram, come and join me! And you can click here to see all the Instagram updates right here on my blog!

Friday, May 1



Print Available – Our Impossibility
“Visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible...begin to see it as possible” ― Cherie Carter-Scott This quote captures what I mean by "impossibility is our greatest gift." The gift of pushing the boundaries, creativity, possibility. Letting what we imagine take flight.

Currently doing a Twitter chat with Do What You Love on all things biz, soul missions, balancing biz and motherhood, inspiration and more. 

The view from earlier today when I went outside my studio to get some air, and to get some perspective. Much needed and I just really love that I work inside this old renovated high school with a big park attached (old football field). And the sun. Grateful it's been out here in Portland lately. Ahhhhhh. 

Playing.Saturday, May 2

We use Bella's old doggie piddle pads (used a lot toward the end of her life) for painting pads in the house. PERFECT for spilled water and paints. I have no idea why, but I feel called to share this tip with you! And also, it makes me love that Bella is still with us in this hilarious way.


I stopped by a 24 hour paint jam for a couple of hours of painting with some dear women. While gabbing over all things life, motherhood, spirit, past lives, future lives, biz journeys, creative paths and more, I painted this. I'm not sure why raw and happy flower pieces want to come out of me lately, but sure is fun to let it out. I have a few more things to do with this one, but I'm digging it.

Monday, May 4
 

Print Available – Dear World
Dear World, Thank you for your smallest of moments that bring the greatest of beauty. Thank you for the stars, the light, and your soulful hearts that make living worth all the love you hold. Sending out some gratitude at the top of a very, very FULL week.

This week my mantra is EASE + FLOW after resisting a bit too much last week against life. What's yours? Happy Monday, friends!!


Like any good practice (a yoga practice, a gratitude practice, etc), the practice of intentionally getting dressed up in joy will open your heart and awaken new ways of seeing yourself. In so many ways, this course is about remembering who we are. Because when we turn our attention toward anything with intention, we raise its vibration, its meaningfulness, its consciousness. It all starts, in one week on Monday, May 11th. Come join me in the pursuit of making what's in our hearts visible, and wearable. For all the details, including how to register, click here!


Last couple of days of getting dressed up in joy. Today I dressed up (middle pic) as I had the amazing opportunity to meet and have lunch with Jensine Larsen of World Pulse (along with some other amazing ladies). I am SO inspired by her story and all the ways she is changing the world (and global economy and consciousness) by connecting women together through technology. If there is ONE thing I've learned in my life, it's the power that comes when women connect. It's why I paint women, and why I feel called to bring them together in my courses. Also inspired today by a friend who shared her story of consciously transitioning from her girlhood to her womanhood in the small but big moment when she stood up for herself and used her voice. Ahhhh, inspired!

Like so many of you, I have always been a seeker, looking for deeper meanings in just about everything. I consider myself highly intuitive, a feeler, a seer of connections and meaning. I had a rough early life, and as I began to sort it all out, I started journaling at the age of 14 years old, collecting wisdom from anyone willing to share theirs with me. Most of my learnings came from women who have ushered me along my life's path (friends, mentors, authors whose books I read, older women I looked up to but didn't know, etc). It's why I feel a strong connection to our collective sisterhood, and it's also why I paint women and the wisdom and mantras that have been gifted to me as I made my way as a student in this life. As I like to say, I am grateful for the women who have walked with me, both in paint and in flesh, into art, love, and life. Lately, my seeker self has been seeking a deeper spiritual self. These last couple of years I've had an extraordinary journey exploring this part of myself, the part that is Divine, that was born of God/Source/Light. And similar to the ways in which I was unexpectedly led to make art, I can feel something happening again, another kind of journey that is intuitively led. It's big, exciting, and I'm not even sure what it is, exactly. I just know it's the next level, a graduate course that will build on all that I've learned these last nine years since making my way into the creative life. All of my life I've had 'strange' things happen - premonitions that came true, feelings of deep intuition/knowing, hits about something that was about to happen, and struggles with energies and the boundary work that came with that. Today on the blog I'm sharing more about my recent spiritual journey. We are all holy and we are all a mess. I like to live in the inbetween spaces, learning to make meaning of the messes, and finding holy in the everyday. Tuesday, May 5

Ahhhh! Totally digging the new empathy cards by Emily McDowell. Emily is a truth teller while also being funny. A rare combo. And I like it.


Print Available – Sincerely, Faith
“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan Adore this quote and it's message: The faith to follow our calling, the trust that everything that is supposed to happen will indeed happen, and the room for magic in our lives. I've been seeing a lot of magic lately – angel numbers, spirit talks with True, even the changing of the seasons. What kind of magic are you witnessing?

Home today. And just feeling mighty grateful for the ease and flow despite life providing some hiccups.  A peek into my writing process. I have to get content organized the old fashioned way (on index cards like I did my science projects on in high school) and then I'll write the longer versions on the computer. Ahhh, I always forget this (or resist it) but I really do love writing. Wednesday, May 6


Print Available – Sisters in Heart
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” ― Aristotle In the fullness of the week, I have been working alone a lot, writing and planning and creating. The quiet is great way to connect with my soul and follow my heart, AND makes the time with my friends and loved ones that much sweeter. Here's to solo soul work and sister soul love!

Sidewalk crack flowers are the absolute best.

Friends, im sharing the before and after of our dining room. Come on over to my blog for all the pics. Love this room!

Another dining room peek. Full tour up on the blog today!


We've had to get more on our parenting game lately as this little brilliant being is doing exactly what he's supposed to do: push and challenge the boundaries. I appreciate every single challenge. It helps me grow as a human and mama. We are each other's teachers in many ways. Ahhhh. I took this shot today during his performance of Michael Jackson's Song PYT. Thursday, May 7
 


Print Available – Embrace
Yes, yes, yes.

Found the succulents blooming this morning. I love love love it when that happens. Also, I had an elaborate dream last night about a peacock who was in our house. It jumped onto my head! I wonder what it means?


Friends, I'm sitting here writing the Wear Your Joy ecourse that starts Monday and my heart is truly happy at 1) the response (we are so starting an unlikely joy revolution) 2) being in ease and flow with writing the content. It's not fluff, but rather a kind of everyday soul work that will be a transformative way into joy and making what's in our hearts visible. Ahhhhh, I'm so excited and truly just loving the writing and teaching pieces of this offering. Come join the tribe! Starts Monday.


That's it for this week! Check back here next week for another update, or join us over on Instagram for daily photos and thoughts!

XO,
Kelly Rae