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Welcome to Day 2 everyone! My heart is so full of joy from seeing everyone participating yesterday. Take a moment to feel proud for YOU for taking the first step in deepening your relationship with your most playful self. How do you feel today? Did your play from yesterday feel surprising, frustrating, exciting, wonderful? Something else entirely? Check out that mental landscape of yours and see how you're doing! What are you looking forward to today? In my opinion, the best

Happy Saturday, friends! How did yesterday's prompt, LAUGH feel to you? Was it easier or harder than expected? Personally, I found it surprisingly difficult to reach the kind of deep laughter that comes from my belly, versus laughter I found in my chest or head. Why is that? Well - Play isn't always the easiest thing for us to access. But with conscious effort + today's theme, I think you'll be feeling a bit more ease by the end of the weekend. Which means I am so happy to ha

HELLOOOO SUNDAYFUNDAY I hope everyone enjoyed wandering yesterday. Personally, I found it hard to motivate to get out and wander finding myself thinking "well I already know what exists in those areas" but let me tell you how wrong I ended up being! The thing about wandering is that if you try too hard, you lose it. It's almost more about not trying. I noticed myself actively "trying" to play and wander yesterday, striving for a very carefree laissez-faire attitude but contin

MMMMM take a deep breath of that EXPANSIVE Saturday air my friends. How are your INSTRUMENTS from yesterday doing?! What did you discover? Did you notice any particularly interesting interactions between INSTRUMENTS and SPACE? What I realized yesterday is that I sometimes have so many INSTRUMENTS that I forget which one's I have where. I took some time to build a sort of waterfall of spaces I have access to > personalities these spaces encourage > INSTRUMENTS contained within

Officially Day 15 of Play Your Way Challenge! CRAZY. Welcome to your Thursday night prompt, the beginning of our THIRD! week of playing for our overall mental / emotional / physical wellness. In week two we focused on expansion. I hope you feel confident that your ability to play is ever expanding, and can only be built upon! Giving ourselves moments of joy is what expands our holistic flexibility, builds new neural pathways, and helps us turn the pressure release to ON becau

It's Day 16 and first off want to thank YOU for reading this right now. I spent last night and today reflecting on how AMAZING it has been to experiment with the growing of this Play Challenge when a mere month ago it was only a baby idea in my brain. I had no idea how much it would blossom into graphics and blog posts and website design and well it's honestly just splattered further than I could have imagined, and we're only halfway through the month. While the creation of t

Day 19! What was your SENSE about the past 24 hours and your Play? Did you utilize one sense, multiple, sense your way to or away from something? Do you sense something new, or old, about yourself emerging? I hope that your appreciation for the varying ways that these play prompts can intersect our days is growing even deeper and that you are getting a good SENSE of the unlimited number of forms Play can take. A recap from me: I spent the evening engaging as many senses as I

Hello Day 20! Are you arriving here positively BEAMING? Did you catch a BEAM towards some fun and relaxation in the past 24 hours? What is the particular path that you find yourself on today because of your unique BEAM? With my engineer brain on vacation this week, I'm finding myself thinking a lot about building... if you couldn't tell ;) My BEAM that started yesterday at the lake with the two swans that I found carried me through some tough brain times in the past 24 hours.

HELLO play fam! Today is our 22nd day of the #playyourwaychallenge and the beginning of our fourth (?!) week of getting to know your unique play signature makeup. In week 3, we focused on intersection as the overarching theme. In week 4 we will be taking our intersections (that is - where multiple play types connect in your signature) and starting to nest them together. This week when you are playing, try to make some space for multiple play types within yourself to play in a

24 Days of Playing, and here you are! What did you do for your CENTER yesterday? Were you able to get your mind CENTERED on the abstract idea of that thing that we can't find a name for, that pulls you in and makes it easier to be in community with others, like a conversation around a fire pit? After writing the blog post yesterday, I had an extremely interesting experience where I felt stuck on this topic. I have to be honest that I couldn't even think about playing - or may

It's Day 25 my playful friend. How are you feeling on the other side of your BRIDGE? Where did it lead you, and what did you discover over the past 24hrs? Were you able to BRIDGE a couple of play types, or a connection with your core self? Did you find a moment to create a bridge with a new way of playing? For me, I find bridges by way of my play tools. I discovered a few years ago that I feel at ease with others when I am playing games, or when I have a hand-distracting acti

Day 26 and I am sitting down to write this at 7:49est. I'm going to playfully start today by telling you what that means to me. 26 is a weird number for me - I see it a LOT. It's a sign of good things, of forward movement, and of being pretty well on top of my overall wellness. It's auspicious number for me, and I totally found that today echos those sentiments in my play sphere. You know where that came from? Playing! I playfully use numbers as a sign to myself that I am "on

Day 30! Wow wow wow we have been at this for 30 days straight my friend. How proud are you of the fact that you are here reading this right now? Have you discovered many LEVELS of playing within your play signature types over the past 24 hours? Over the past 30 days? Have you been finding that you are more and more able to tap in to feelings of fun, relaxation, and stress relief on multiple LEVELS : mentally, physically, emotionally, or spiritually? I am hoping that you have