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#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Commitment. .
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Commit to the outcome; be open to the options. .
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If I am committed to a full, rich, and beautiful life, it behooves me not to be too attached to the specifics. I trust the Universe will give us what we need to keep creating that magic...
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...in my body that is still hungry for learning and play (thanks for your amazing pool/hot tub photo shoot, @pole_dancer_m.v 🤣💦💜)
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... with my husband @mr.ladysmith as we celebrate 3 years of important growth in a marriage that challenges us regularly to be better and better
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...with an adventure in creativity around a sudden car-free lifestyle
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...with students, teachers, administrators, parents, staff, and communities as they declare and re-declare what's important to them and negotiate for it (#ctu #chicagoteachers #chicagoteachersunion @ctulocal1 - I see you, I acknowledge you, I respect you) .
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... and all the ways. Live big, full lives, and don't sweat the small stuff. .
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#biglife #biglove #commit #oversplit

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#WonderPlayOfTheDay + #FascinatedFriday: Scary...!!!
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Cultivating Creative Courage much?
Beta testing is launching in early November for this online course. Drop me a line if you want in.
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#creative #courage #coach

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#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Choice.
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We may choose from fear or love. (Choosing from fear is like losing 5 points; choosing from love is like gaining 100 points.)
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Choosing from love is better for your health, and by extension, for the world. Practice on!
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I'm headed right now to borrow a car from my mom so I can visit my dad in the hospital for ~2 hours today - and then get to the theater. I haven't been able to visit my dad in over a week (I did go to my @liquidmotionct cert at @flirtfitnessstudiogr, and it was good for my soul), and it's a busy tech week now. .
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Fear would have me choosing shame, guilt, concern about the new version of my dad I haven't met, worry about transportation logistics past Sunday... Love would have me choosing gratitude for the opportunity to support kids making art, wonder at my mom's ease and grace, hope for the prospects of my dad's recovery and the good it could do for my sense of family cohesion, and more and more gratitude for everyone who has helped and supported me with kind and generous words and actions during this time, and any and all times. .
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@towle.theater @bluespanda1 @mr.ladysmith @sandratuazon #chooselove

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#FascinatedFriday: What's your fave?

I have a few answers here...
*Partnered social dancing: the partnered application of creativity. It's the magic and wonder of making something that has never existed before, with someone else. You couldn't have come up with it on your own.
*Live performance (music, theater, dance): the incredibly special and ephemeral nature of it, and the endless source of lessons about life and about yourself.
*Music directing: the responsibility of supporting, encouraging, and enabling the performing artists to do their dang best. Leadership ftw.
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Y'ALL. I am seeking beta testers for some online coursework I'm developing. If you want to see what I'm up to, mine some rich wisdom nuggets along the way, and have a hand in shaping the final product for the low low price of free-ninety-nine, hit me up.

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#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Dare.
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Dare to learn more about yourself than you have yet seen.
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How could we discover the power of our resilience if we had not been through the wringer again? How could we experience the potential breadth and depth of a relationship if a previous one had not been shallow? How could we fully step into our brilliance if we hadn't had all the training wheels that came before? Witness me where I am, and know that I am still traveling, still diving, still growing, learning, loving. Live, discover, and dare onward, my friends.
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#wisdomwednesday #wednesdaywisdom
Photo by @kate_scott_photography for @rawartists in #chicago
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Creative Level-Up - the countdown continues! Closes on Monday! (link in my bio)

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#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Next Step, Now.
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Don't worry so much about the future. All that is there for you is the present. Take the next step.
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Anybody else get ahead of themselves? (All the time.) However you get back to the present, make it so. It's where life is happening.
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7 days left to sign up for The Creative Level-Up! Link is in my bio. I'd love to see your face.
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#presence #mantramonday #mondaymantra #mondaymotivation #motivationmonday #magicmonday #beherenow @jessrosepole

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#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Sufficient.
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I empower myself to be perfectly on time and to be sufficiently prepared for everything needed today.
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Accessing divine timing, on purpose. Power up!
Creative Level-Up relaunches TOMORROW! Last chance to get in before the price doubles. Link in my bio <3
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@_billfurlong #sundaybumday #sundaymood #sundayfunday #sundaybumday

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#WonderPlayOfTheDay + #FascinatedFriday -- Consistent Much?
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The lesson I keep on learning is a lesson about asking for what I want/need. This lesson shows up when I observe conflict in my life, unmet needs, and underwhelming results. I see that one step I'm working on now is to ask for what I want & need, from the divine Universe and from concrete persons, with more power - purposefully, creatively, concisely, completely, and particularly - as well as openly, lovingly, compassionately, and with curiosity. I'm getting better, and I see that because I have a bit further to travel, I will need to keep learning layers upon layers of this lesson. Bring it! Practice on.
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Guys. The Creative Level-Up is relaunching MONDAY. Love and connection, yes - and brilliance and power, of course - and precision and accountability, oh yeah. Join by the end of the day Monday and take it to the house for half price. Link is in my bio...!
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#learning #cosmic #lessons #consistency

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#WonderPlayOfTheDay: MascCrushMonday. (There's no suggestion of gender fluidity in the word "Man," but I reopened a beautiful study of Divine Masculine balanced with Divine Feminine very recently, and I feel good about this.)
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I've gotten to work with this human before at @towle.theater, and boy is he dreamy-fantastic.
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I'm going to see a preview on ***Friday***. Join me! (Or go a different day.) (If I tag you... you're it.) The playwright is playing too!! The tagline to the description is "Come party at the wake." @thestorytheatre @terryexplainsitall #AtTheWakeOfADeadDragQueen
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(Odd fact: this will be my second piece of theater written as a post-funeral experience of someone from a marginalized community who has died from AIDS complications) @mmhuston
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#mcm #mancrushmonday #masc #femme #divine #getready @mr.ladysmith @deosluciddream @samdarlin @hoynikkidee @brenna.welsh @colboy76 @m00dy_egg @mattymaxwell @life_coach_baker @roysamra @ryanjsmetana @tamara_u_bodnar @tdbshaw @iamtravisaustinwright .
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#Repost @paulmichaelt
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#WonderPlayOfTheDay + #SundaySalute. Slay.

#Repost @becomeimpossible
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Playing With the Universe - Pt. 2
Every experience has the capacity to either disintegrate or grow you. If something or someone does not spark joy, it is better to leave a hollow than allow discordance to perpetuate. Your daemon is heard with greater clarity in stillness, though its whispers will turn to screams, will tear the seams of your tapestry if you do not listen.
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And we make mistakes, we doubt ourselves, we use any excuse available to believe we are not enough. Manipulation does not exist, for there is something in us giving permission to be manipulated and we allow it unto ourselves; there are wounds in us that crave more suffering, and it is our responsibility alone to heal them. Understand why people make you suffer, and understand also they are suffering; it is your choice not to suffer.
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Once you recognize suffering, the story can be finished. Accept it, because the events or people that caused the suffering have allowed you to go on your path. Begin again. Your past is a source of evolution. Do your behaviors express what you are? Each time they do not, you delay that evolution and lose time. Question everything. Doubt means progress, and cultivating more accurate recognitions of the efficiency of beliefs means living closer to truth. You can only build your beliefs by testing them in the game of life.
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Know that if you love yourself, you will not let people cause you suffering. For all the love that people give us, we change. For all the love we give ourselves, we grow. You can choose to be impermeable to outward aggression, to recognize wholeness in imperfection, to witness the beauty in your breakdowns. When you know what your worst is, you don’t have to go back; and you can always keep creating your best again and again and again.
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The beginning is the end is the beginning is the game.
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📷=photographer: @marycarolfitztography
👙 = @lululemon #lululemon
#becomeimpossible #amrahcrow #believeyourmagicintobeing #ayahuasca #ayahuascaretreat #scorpiontattoo #cirque #aerialist #circusfreak #witch #they #thelightsofbeauty #portraitvision #portraitkillers #photoshake

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#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Evolution.
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Be open to the evolution of your intentions.
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Set intentions in the first place, but don't cling past their usefulness.
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Ever feel stuck, stopped, down on yourself? We can sympathize. At The Creative Level-Up, you will light a fire under your own *ss and get your own thing going. And we’ll help you get it going - and keep it going. Relaunching September 9th - more info at the link in my bio.
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#tiptuesday #evolution #intentions

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#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Channel.
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I am a channel for God's creativity, and my work comes to good.
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This photograph is of the final moment in a piece I choreographed the year after my first Ayahuasca process. The message as I understood it then was about accepting the shadow with the light, for full integration. A new message after my 2nd and 3rd processes includes: Cultivate Your Light. Trust. I trust that this will become more and more clear with time, but those two statements seem perfectly suited for this post today, certainly. So far. Until their next level or layer of meaning is discerned.
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Tired of stalling yourself out on the projects you care about? The Creative Level-Up relaunches on September 9th, and it has space for you to help you get past what’s stopping you. Trust. wonderplaygrow.com/the-creative-level-up
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#motivationmonday #mondaymotivation #mondaymantra #mantramonday #magicmonday #positiveaffirmation #channel #creativity #artistsway PC: @alloyimages

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#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Truth.
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Truth is power, and I allow the truth to set me free.
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There are many ways and levels of understanding Truth. The higher level the Truth with which you are aligned, the more freedom it can create. .
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To the person who’s ready to finally get some sh*t done, The Creative Level-Up is so, so sexy. Come and join us! (Link in my bio)
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@jessrosepole #sundaybumday #sundaymood #sundayfunday #pddoublekneehang

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#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Protected.
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I can be with people no matter what they exhibit - and I can protect myself from toxic behaviors when needed.
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One of my lessons from the Ayahuasca with @thesacredcircus in Costa Rica is: I am fully, completely protected by The Madre. (And I wrote this sentence months ago ...) What remains is to move boldly & full-bodied in the world, despite any fear.
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The Creative Level-Up is a group program for people who are hungry for their next thing to launch. Let’s go, my friends! (link in my bio) Be not afraid. Or rather, be afraid if you like, but know that your fear doesn't stop you.
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@_billfurlong @twistedmovement #spacioussaturday #protected

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#WonderPlayOfTheDay + #FascinatedFriday: Gratitude!
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It's hard to say, truly. If I were doing a gratitude audit, I would imagine that I express gratitude most regularly for:
* the infinity number of chances I have to reimagine, reframe, and reinvent myself and my beliefs, and to keep growing into the authentically empowered person I am becoming.
*the connections I have gotten to experience with beautiful souls around the world.
*perceived challenges and hardships and conflicts, for the opportunity to learn more about myself and my grace and resilience, and my ability to be with my own fear and practice more and more to choose love.
*every day, the depth of my experience, the breadth of abundance, and the height of possibility.
*the generosity and benevolence of Universe / Divine Universal Intelligence / The Madre / God / Spirit / Soul / Higher Self.
*the Wonder and Play that helps me see my practices (physical, artistic, mental, emotional, social, spiritual, etc.) as beautiful games, in a light of pure magic.
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I assert that maintaining any gratitude practice at all works wonders in people's lives. People talk about the Matrix, the Law of Attraction, Manifestation, creating Karma, Visualizing, even Problems-to-Opportunities (or Probportunities), and so on. I, personally, believe that the energy you put out increases that energy in the world and is a crucial element in enhancing your chances of calling that energy to you so that you (and others) can experience more of it. You don't even have to believe that, though, to experience the benefits of a gratitude practice.
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Invitation, always! The Creative Level-Up is a group program for people who are hungry for their next thing to launch. Let’s go, my friends! (link in my bio)

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#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Healing Creativity.
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My creativity heals myself and others. .
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I'm not saying that all creations are good for everyone... but creation IS good for people, especially when the energy moves you (and others) toward light. .
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The Creative Level-Up helps YOU keep using your powers for good ... or awesome, so you can go beyond the healing into the growing ...! Click the link in my bio to learn more!
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#thoughtfulthursday #thankfulthursday #healing #creativity @jessrosepole

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#WonderPlayOfTheDay: Clear Sight.
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I shut my eyes in order to see. ~Paul Gaugin~
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I enter the last Ayahuasca ceremony of SpiritQuest: Costa Rica, hosted by @thesacredcircus, today. I credit+thank the Madre for showing me a whole host of things I needed to see - in many cases, while my eyes were literally closed. Next step: integration.
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The Creative Level-Up closes its doors on September 30th. Click on the link in my bio to claim your spot.
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#wisdomwednesday #wednesdaywisdom #sight #vision

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