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#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Adventure and Celebration! .

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Adventure and Celebration!
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When you are invited to celebrate, support, and witness your friends' and allies' triumphs, SAY YES.
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Pictured: our first outing to @solchicago_ with @elizabethtuazon @mr.ladysmith and @placeodiscovery
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Not pictured: the rest of the brilliance of the place, the light, loving, loving energy brought by @merrymaryhynes and @lauraeholloway -- you'll need to see that for yourself!!
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Unpicturable: the yumminess of the beverage program...

#boss #brilliance #askandyoushallreceive #wrightliving @wrightlivingchicago

#WonderPlayOfTheDay -- Defining yourself may defy

#WonderPlayOfTheDay -- Defining yourself may defy others' expectations.

Saw this video floating around without tagging the subject... I'm glad I dug around a bit to find Georgia! You seriously rock.

#Repost @black_coffee98
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This is how you RETIRE after serving your country! @savagexfenty @pharrell #pullupwitalemon ⚓✌🏾💙🙌🏾💃🏾

I yearn to matter. To make a difference. To realiz

I yearn to matter. To make a difference. To realize my potential. And so much more.

When I feel afraid and might withdraw or avoid my work, if I can orient to my yearnings and my vision for myself, I can take action in line with those, and get my yearnings met.

New format planned for tonight's Virtual Salon!! Head to my website for join info. If you yearn to connect, to be seen and known, to inspire and be inspired or to play and engage, these salons are YUMMY.

@wrightlivingchicago #wrightliving

#Repost @wrightlivingchicago
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Yearnings are the core, universal, human hungers that are underneath the things we want.

What do you yearn for?

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: beauty & preciousness. . . Ho

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: beauty & preciousness.
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How can I be nourished - find myself beautiful & precious - here and now?
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I looked at this photo from our @poleicons street poling adventure last week & dismissed it so fast as un-Instagrammable. Reasoning/judgment includes: It was during a freestyle moment, & I remember being genuinely in the moment, not having chosen a direction to go from there, not fully developed into a shape with a line, or demonstrating any flexibility or skill that I consider pride-worthy at the moment, my grip choices are questionable...
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Fast-forward to this morning. I was on the @wrightlivingchicago board support call this morning, & my takeaway lessons to ponder include:
☀️ We can find beauty & wonder just about anywhere, if we look. (aka wildlife in the city) Nature sure is nourishing for those of us in the city (and with the privilege/skills/resources to survive), but even in the city, the beauty & nourishment of the natural world is not absent.
☀️ It takes a village to raise a child (It was a few offspring's birthday celebrations), and those moments of witnessing & influencing a child's development are precious, even as the child grows up & doesn't appreciate the love/care as much.
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Having gotten those lessons, I was hungry to write a quick post about them & was looking for a photo representative... I found this, dismissed it ("not pretty enough")... then paused and considered the application of the lessons to this very photo.
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I wonder if I could find the beauty, as it is...as I am. I wonder if I could see this moment (the moment of the photo & the moment RIGHT NOW) as precious, part of the development, part of the journey, and appreciate the moments that got me here (in dance and in life) as well as the moments that are yet to come. I wonder if I could treasure myself as a worthy, growing creature, even as I resist and squirm away.
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Of course I could! And so could you. I challenge you to find beauty and preciousness today in one of your historically less-loved places & share it. You beautiful, precious creature.
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#wrightliving #treatyourselfwright #streetpole @lupitpole #lifecoach

📸 by @aerial_athletics_chi

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Reminder. . . Felt cute. Won'

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Reminder.
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Felt cute. Won't delete later.
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@mr.ladysmith styled me for an appointment today, and I took selfies because I'm cute and because it's fun and because I am practicing loving on MYSELF.
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I got to facilitate a co-working hour (thank you @megantaylormorrison and her community!) with beautiful humans today wherein I asked the question, "What reminder could you use today?"
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My reminder for myself today was that I am not only ok, but I am AWESOME. I am a gift when I really show up.
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I am learning to be kind, sweet, and loving to myself, and you know what? Little by little, it's working. I glow more. I'm becoming more of the gift I am, stepping more into the gift I can become. I receive plenty of assistance myself, and I'm loving the work I do for clients as they practice seeing their own light too. This is my work, and I adore it.
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What reminder could you use today?
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@wrightlivingchicago #treatyourselfwright #wrightliving

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: nostalgia & other feelings.

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: nostalgia & other feelings.
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Got my piano tuned this week by @mike.byrley at @precisionpianotuning (whom I met through singing in @chicagochorale and highly recommend), and it's such a relief and a pleasure to play this instrument again (which I got from @timfriese, who I *also* know from Chorale). So sweet to simply sit and play, pieces old and new!
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And look what I found! Not mine, but belongs to my youngest brother (not on IG) from a piano competition at @illinoismusicassociation 10 years ago. I think we played in competitions there till we aged out. I've definitely been in the competitive performing arts space for a long freaking time.
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Reflections on this - I think part of how I learned to sit with and process emotions was through playing music and dancing. It FELT SO GOOD to play BIG BEETHOVEN SOUNDS today - refreshing, enlivening, and clarifying. And even a little scary to be making such big sounds and taking up so much airspace. And slso very, very sweet and nostalgic. (@sandratuazon, I'm back on the sonata train, fyi!)
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What I'm learning at @wrightlivingchicago is that everyone gets messages about emotions growing up. And now as an increasingly conscious and learning/relearning adult, I can practice expanding what feelings I allow myself to experience and express in the moment. Every time I practice outside of what I habitually or unconsciously do, I grow. (P.S. They're hosting a free virtual training the weekend of September 11th - if you're interested, let me know and I'll hook you up.)
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#nostalgia #feelings #practice #pianist #wrightliving

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: who watches the Watchmen? . .

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: who watches the Watchmen?
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Lots of drama here! The Drama Triangle is ever-present in the stories we love. It's easy to get hooked. Also, beautiful characters easy to love and hate. Also, brilliant storytelling. Also, epic meditations on purpose and meaning, on cosmic levels.
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Some firsts here:
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📖 My first graphic novel
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🏛 My first book requested and checked out of @chicagopubliclibrary
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😳 My first time keeping a book over its due date, not renewable, and not having a fine assessed - so now I have only my own guilt as payment
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🖥 My first time watching a TV show to completion, with friends, over TIME (not binged), and then following up with reading the source material. @adelewilhelm @placeodiscovery @mr.ladysmith
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#watchmen #wrightliving @wrightlivingchicago

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: beneath the surface. . . I l

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: beneath the surface.
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I love a cool sparkling beverage on a hot day, and summer fruits to boot. They make an oddly beautiful and soothing dance, and I thought to record it.
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Then my CoachBrain did what it does and fired up a metaphor.
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Think of the berries as unfinished business. Even if I have many aspects of it that I'm working on, only one part of each berry is surfaced at a time; the rest is submerged. It may turn and roll around this way and that as the bubbles of life move it so we can see/smell/taste it from different angles, but rarely does a whole berry break the surface at once. I'd really need to take one ALL the way out of the glass to surface more of it, and perhaps I could deal with one at a time... and even then, until I re-process it - consume it and make it a part of me - I can only see one angle at a time, even when I'm studying deeply. Indeed, sometimes a berry will dive deep, totally submerged... but it doesn't stay there long! When it's time for it to be surfaced again, it will come up.
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We don't deal with big life work all at once - that's why we can use our whole lives. One berry of unfinished business at a time, my friends. One delicious, juicy bite at a time.
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What unfinished business has been surfacing for you lately? For me: dealing with authority, money, and cleaning up messes with stale hurts (including ones I inflict on myself).
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Brought to you by summer beverages and fruits, and a strong metaphor game.
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#coachbrain #lifecoach #Wonder #play #bubbles #berries #wrightliving @wrightlivingchicago

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: moving through mistakes! . .

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: moving through mistakes!
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Dog-sitting for @sandratuazon part-time today meant at the end of the afternoon, being in the living room I grew up in, at my mom's baby grand, opening an old piano book to a random page and playing it - for you, because I'm posting it in public, but really for me. Featuring my joy face, my concentration face, and my mistake face. There are many potential lessons here. The one I'm taking today is: I'm allowed to make mistakes and fully celebrate and delight in them, and enjoy them and myself. (Even so, I am now noticing how many sweet notes and phrases I played... and yet, I've made this whole post about the making of a mistake. I was even going to deflect and diminish the hundred lovely experiences of notes by criticizing from a place of former superiority from having "gone to school for this; what is that voicing, phrasing, pedaling, fingering, accuracy, legato?!?!" Ouch, superior self.)
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Historically, I used mistakes as a weapon against myself to confirm that I was not good enough. Increasingly, I celebrate my mistakes as harbingers of my learning and growth, and I use them to guide me towards realizing my potential.
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Repping @polesportorg because virtual #CPC is this weekend... live performance -- talk about moving through mistakes! The gold can be in keeping it going, finding out about your mettle. What version of you will you become on the other side?
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Y'all, I host virtual salons every Thursday evening, 7pm CT, for just these kinds of vulnerable shares. Come and bring your gifts - and be the gift that you are. Wonderplaygrow.com/salon
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@wrightlivingchicago #wrightliving #piano #pianist #poledancer #lifecoach #celebrate #mistakes

Virtual Salon #11 TONIGHT!! Head over to WonderPl

Virtual Salon #11 TONIGHT!!

Head over to WonderPlay Coaching on Facebook to find our event. Coming soon: a website feature of all the past visitors and guests...!

These events are so nourishing, y'all. And it's not just me saying that. Come and bring a gift to share, or simply BE a gift and witness others. All are welcome.

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Weekend "observances" . . Sta

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Weekend "observances"
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Stay diligent, safe, conscious, and engaged in your lives and relationships this weekend! Join me if you are hungry for some connection and aliveness.
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>>Tonight's (Thursday's) Virtual Salon, 7pm CT - DM me for the info
>>Friday's Talk Show on IG Live at 1:30pm CT with @deosluciddream
>>Saturday's Move Your Meaning at 4pm CT (register at the link in my bio)
>>Sunday Pole Level 3 class at @poleicons (!!!)
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@jessrosepole
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#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Support. . . Who gets your su

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Support. .
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Who gets your support, and how? - this is one of the questions we'll be discussing on IG LIVE on FRIDAY, 1:30pm CT. This will be a weekly broadcasted conversation, focused on education and discussion, about what we're LIVING to talk about anyway. Join us!
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@deosluciddream @deos_pilates

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#Repost @alexjenny_
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Created this in response to everyone who blew up my inbox and comments with some variation of “I think I agree with what you’re saying, but I don’t agree with how you’re saying it.” Weaponizing white fragility masquerading as mental health concerns in response to my very direct feedback is not how you humbly listen for understanding. Gaslighting me and projecting things onto me that I never said or condoned is not listening for understanding.

Also, there’s a moment of reckoning happening right now in the Chicago drag scene, led by Black drag performers, that I won’t speak to directly here, but I hope this is a helpful framework for everyone to encourage the dialogue to keep going and to not center our egos or self-interest. Feedback is a gift. Treat it accordingly.

Simple. I've been looking for the words for these

Simple. I've been looking for the words for these concepts - thank you for creating this guide, @holidayphillips! If systemic racism is like the iceberg that's mostly hidden from view, then my work will mostly be about changing my own internal structures and trusting, step by step, that by my learning and growing, that my external expression will become different - and improved - and the world will turn, one degree at a time.
#Repost @holidayphillips
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More and more people are awakening to the realities of racism and feeling inspired to become allies in the quest for racial justice. We are no doubt in a great awakening, and I am filled with hope and motivation to continue showing up and playing my part as an educator in the most honest and helpful ways I can. So this week I've created a guide of common things I'm seeing in the name of allyship that aren't, in my eyes, actually helpful and some suggestions on what you can do instead. ⁠
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As with everything I offer, this guide is not intended to blame or shame, if you recognise some of the behaviours in yourself. But a way to check yourself and navigate your allyship in a way that is most useful for black, indigenous and people of colour. We are all learning and the marker of our humanity is not how perfect we are, but how willing we are to see where we can be better and do the work 🌱🖤
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Language note: BIPOC = Black, Indigenous and People of Colour⁠
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✨SHARING: if this is useful to you, please feel free to share! ✨

Language matters. Intention matters. Pay attention

Language matters. Intention matters. Pay attention to how you and your circles use your words. As much as language is and has been a tool of oppression, so too must it become a tool of the revolution.
Thank those who call you forth, and go forward.
Thanks @rachel.cargle

My beloved POWERHOUSE of a mother just sent this t

My beloved POWERHOUSE of a mother just sent this to me. Can I get an AMEN?! #Repost @sempimimi
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❤️ FEEL GRATEFUL FRIDAY ❤️
Is that a thing? Well, we’re making it one! •
It’s been a surreal few months for everyone. Being a small business owner is never easy but when times are tough, keeping motivation and energy levels high can be hard work. It’s at times like this that you realise how lucky you are to be surrounded by some amazing, supportive women. We here @sempimimi are forever grateful for these relationships because they have kept us afloat whilst we’ve been navigating the twists and turns of life recently (have tagged as many of these other #femaleentrepreneurs as is possible on this square - anyone missing, you know who you are!)
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Now that we are feeling ready to get back in the saddle, we want to pay it forward. We’re here for any support, advice, wine-drinking and of course, EPIC JEWELS that you may need ❤️ •
@mytribehk ❤️❤️❤️
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#sempimimi #statementjewellery #statementjewelry #semipreciousjewellery #semipreciousjewelry #jewellerydesigner #jewelrydesigner #quoteoftheday #instaquote #feelgoodfriday #feelgratefulfriday #women #womensupportingwomen #womenempowerment #womenempoweringwomen #girlpower #girlboss #womeninbusiness #lifeinthetimeofcovid19 #supportsmallbusiness #smallbusiness #supportsmall #payitforward

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Approaching Discomfort . . Re

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Approaching Discomfort
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Relatable, amirite? From both perspectives, probably. 🤣 There are SO MANY things in the world that cause me discomfort, even if I know they're good for me, that I would rather not do. If I'm out here trying to stay comfortable, I'll run away every time. .
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If I want to grow, though, I need to practice making friends with that discomfort, and keep approaching. One more time. Then another. .
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One SUPER uncomfortable thing is putting myself out there in different ways. Like, at my own Virtual Salon last night, I didn't host myself - didn't invite myself share any of my own art... And I haven't invited people to my weekly workshops directly for a month or more... And I haven't directly asked for money in a form of payment OR donation from people attending my events... And before you know it, I've gathered plenty of "evidence" to support my mistaken belief that I don't matter. No wonder I would run away! I'm afraid of getting hurt. .
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So then what? Remind myself that it's ok to get hurt. Approach. Do something different. Tell the person who called me that they're invited to my workshop... Go one step into the fear in a conversation about teaching for a studio and make an appointment with the owner... Take in the gratitude and appreciation expressed by my attendees... Consider how I want it to go differently in the future and create a plan to support me with my allies... and onward! Time to level up.
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Anybody from @wrightlivingchicago watch this and immediately hear @drjudithwright 's voice doing the exercises in Approach vs Avoid??? 😂😂😂 #wrightliving .
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Another cosmic view I get is that "Karen" is "The Universe," and I am the husky... The Universe tries to give me a gift or teach me a lesson that would require me taking one, two, three more steps closer... and then I back away instead, a few more times. So, since I didn't get the gift/lesson on my time, then the Universe chases me down like YOU *WILL* GET THIS, IT IS *TIME*
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#avoid #approach #nextlevel

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Gather! . . We have living ro

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Gather! .
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We have living room salons on Thursdays! Visit WonderPlay Coaching on Facebook to get the Zoom link. Come get some life from art and the creatives who make it.
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📸 @deosluciddream
#fabulous #alive #wrightliving

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Playtime! . . Anytime I play,

#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Playtime!
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Anytime I play, I have the sense of openness and possibility - which gives me a sense of being held by the divine. I don't always play, but when I do, I am brightened and lifted. Creating opportunities for play is part of my self-love. #play #love #divine #open
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Come and play at the next Move Your Meaning on 5/1! Link to join: wonderplaygrow.com/move
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#Repost @elizabethtuazon
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Improvised apparatus on the farm a few weeks ago, last it was warm. #springpart1 #poledancer #farm #playtime #shapes #twohouseholdquarantine

Don't know where this came from originally, but sa

Don't know where this came from originally, but saw it from @megantaylormorrison!! I'm about it. #wrightliving

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