REVolution

💗 Why You Need To Love & Play More + 50 Euro Discount! 💫

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oh we spend so much time on 'stuff'. mostly NOT for us. and at the end of the day, what have you done for you?! to nurture you? to make sure you feel good too?! I bet most of the days you go to bed exhausted, not fulfilled and maybe thinking: how on earth am I going to create again? or read that book? or walk an hour outside in nature? why haven't I made time for me today, but gave all my precious time away? that's what I thought for ages! but, changing my mindset, did change my behavior & how I felt about me!

 

I've got some tips for you to make a start incorporating precious ME TIME in your day! 

 

turn of notifications on your phone 
of apps you are drawn to and where you waste too much of your time (facebook, twitter, instagram to name a few)

write down your 'normal' daily routine. 
do this hour per hour. find out where you are actually wasting time. like: scrolling facebook after dinner? watching tv shows since 6 pm at night till bedtime? reading the newspaper in the morning and realizing you hop from one site to another...?

write down WHAT you will do in stead of your time wasters...
promise yourself to look at your list FIRST and before you go online anywhere. make it a daily habbit to look at all the fun stuff YOU COULD BE DOING in stead of wasting time looking at other people having fun...

set different sounds on your Whatsapp from family members 
you really want to react to asap. friends and others can have one similar sound. but make sure your special ones have their own sound. that way (when you are waiting for a message for instance) you are not looking at your phone every 5 minutes, with a big risk of going on social media. in stead: GO CREATE.

learn how to say NO
it is hard, I know, I was the biggest people pleaser you can imagine, but freeing myself of this with one simple sentence when someone asks me a 'favor': "let me think about that, and I'll get back to you". INSTANT time saver! because where I otherwise already had said YES of course I'll help you bake 200 cakes for <insert 'important' event here>... and if you give yourself a day (or as long as you need) to think about it, you can make a  little list with pro's and con's and REALLY think for yourself if this is something you want to do. without feeling the pressure of someone waiting for your answer, while staring at you...

giving yourself permission to play 
YOU are allowed to take up time in your own day. you are not a puppet to anybody's master (ok. your employer might think otherwise :P). but remember: YOU are as important for YOU. start giving yourself permission to enjoy yourself doing the things you love to do. write it down and read it often. BELIEVE IT.

So imagine how you would feel if you would give yourself permission DAILY to get that me time. To set aside one or more hours a day, that you can fill in exactly the way YOU want.

And would you rather just love yourself. free yourself from all your limiting beliefs and create anything & everything you love?! 

Than my sweetheart, I've made such a lovely online class, especially for you! This online class is 12 weeks of learning How to Love & Free Yourself More, through art journaling! Say what? YES.

And what am I gonna learn, you ask? This:

• you are going to give yourself permission to play
• you will be creative on a daily basis, you are going to claim your ME time
• you will learn how to say NO
• you will deal with your limiting beliefs in a creative way
• you will stop finding excuses, and find reasons why being creative on a daily basis is good for your soul
• you are going to trust, breath & let go
• you are going to face your fears in a save way
• you are going to find out how it feels if you start your day with positivity
• being grateful is going to be your mantra
• you will write your 4 year old self a healing letter
• you are going to learn that it is oK to make mistakes ;)
• you are going to play courageous
• you are going to learn how to choose happiness
• FOCUS is going to be your middle name
• you are going to visualize the life you love and dream of

And IF YOU ARE a loyal & sweet reader of my newsletter, you get a crazy discount of € 50!  

Learn what this fun class is all about here, and you can buy this class in my Dutch shop or in my Etsyshop if you are not a Dutchie :).

Class starts October 23, so make sure you are IN before we start!


Love,

remember. give yourself permission to play!

"give yourself permission to play"⠀{part of a new art journal pag for my brand new online class, which will be launched in October!}
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can't say this enough. if you are creative and run into creative blocks because of what OTHERS might think of your work.... or if you think you are just not good enough.... or you are such a perfectionist that you're not happy about what you've made because it could be done better....⠀
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PULEASE. give yourself permission to play and see where you end up, in stead of having huge expactations and disappoint yourself. been there. done that. didn't make me happy AT ALL. so i gave myself permission to play and it was all fun & games again. just sayin'. 💗

 

this is the beginning of anything you want.

happy messy temperoray work space <3.

 

and remember this!!! "this is the beginning of anything  you want". you have a choice. every single day again. you can choose YOU. no matter what happened yesterday or even today. CHOOSE you. choose YOU. you can work on who you want to be every single day. 

this is it. this is all you have. right here. right now. better make it work dude :D.

fun with modeling paste!

i kinda wondered, what would happen if i put modeling paste in a piping bag for decorating cakes and 'write' in my art journal?!

simply buy cheap disposable piping bags (for the Dutchies: HEMA has them). scoop some modeling paste in there.

yes. it was that easy. although writing is a bit wonky and LOVE it. i'm sure if you use it more often, the writing will go more easily. but man, i love wonky :)

remember: if you do this in your art journal, it's gonna be THICK and you need to let it dry for quite some time. and you will notice when you work on other pages. but i really really don't care a wonky wobbly art journal.

so. go out AND PLAY.

believe in yourself.

so. what's stopping you from believing in YOU? that you can achieve anything you set your mind to. your heart to. are you listening to your inner critic? or are  you listening to Other People's Opinions? those are toxic!

stop it, and write down every single morning why you should believe in yourself and what you are going to do, to make it happen. PLAN & make it happen.

i am enough.

just saying :)

mixed media fun.

ohhhh did i have fun yesterday with my gelato's, sequins and just random stuff. sneak for my upcoming online class. still planning to go live 1 september, but with the rebuild of our home & moving stuff... it's getting close!!

and this class will NOT be about art & techniques. nope. it's gonna be about "Love & Free yourself more" through art journaling. and i will show you every page i've made (in realtime & speedup video's), but it's more about the way of live. How to Free and Love yourself more.

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note to self: relax!

note to self: RELAX.

today they are gonna place 4 (!) roof extensions on our existing roof. well, not much left of the old roof anymore! and while i could think of all that could go wrong: i just get out my paint and art journal and focus on that in stead :)

nothing can dim the light...

 

"nothing can dim the light that shines from within" - Maya Angalou

this must be my favorite quote from her. man, everything she said is so spot on!

 

please. do not feed the fears.

 

fear. fear has been such a big part of me for so many years. fear is asphyxiating. it can have so much power over you, that you simply cannot function normal anymore. as some of you know my childhood years were far from 'happy'. and due to the shit i had to endure, i developed FEARS. yes. in capital. because there were many many fears. if you don't have a save home, a base, it is very very hard to make one yourself. you simply survive by what works. fear kept me alert and alive. but when i didn't need that anymore, fear was becoming my enemy. 

fears of large groups of people. fear of people standing too close to me. fear of getting hurt. fear of traffic accidents. fear of any public transport. fear of big malls. fear of concerts. fear of the cinema. fear of elevators. fear of small rooms. fear of going out at night. fear of the dark. fear of something horrible happening to Arjan or the kids ... i had build up so many fears that i was making myself sick. but i was handling because i managed to move around my fears. always made sure i had my own back. but still. it was making me sick.

and now, so many years later i feel SO FINE! i've had EMDR Therapy in 2013 and that really really did make huge changes. sometimes i even forget how it felt to be so fearful. it feels now like i can take big deep breaths again, without holding anything in. 

raising Sanne & Ruben makes me realize now more and more that fear is a big part of so many lives. they have their own fears. and telling them "you don't have to be afraid" is simply hurting them and not taking them serious. i know so well, that just 'telling me i don't have to be afraid' makes me feel small, misunderstood and even offended. as if i would not be smart enough to tell myself "you don't have to be afraid'. that's the same as telling me i should not have to have green eyes.... yes. BS.

have you dealt with fear, and how did it affect you? are you still dealing with fear or have you learned to live with it or change it? you can always send me a private message. i'm no coach. i'm just another human being who lived through shit and back.

let's help eachother. please, do not feed the fears.