79: Brenna Hughes: Your experience is up to you; Release of control = more opportunity; Connection and SEEING as Healing!!!!! The only way out is THROUGH

Brenna Hughes

Friend and supporter
Curiosity overflowing
Leaning in to all the things
A mothering force
Artist and creator

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We chat about: 
*Brenna is my brother's wife!
*processing through art
*watercolor - out of control - the water creates the movement
*the intention, meaning, and symbolism of Brenna's art: how she sees and experiences people as she creates
*the release of control as there is more opportunity here; "this will do something that I could not have predicted but I'm here for it"
*"together yes, alone no" 
*ruminating in contrast to imagination
*what is the age in adolescence when you first experience how someone else perceives you????
*being mirrors
*finding balance and harmony
*valuing presence; it still matters what is happening right in front of me 
*how to be here in this way right now
*business start-up and creation: www.simplysetspaces.com
*how Brenna and Sarah reinvision a space for the purpose of calm and order, so people can be who they most truly are in that space: elevating, connecting, empowering, healing spaces
*it's bigger than the space
*connecting with people as one of Brenna's superpowers
*Light-worker!! When we share our gifts it affects everyone and lifts everyone up!
*the caretaker role and how big and deep and wide it is
*the lessons that arise when cancer comes into your home
*the loneliness that exists when going through...
*wanting to help but not being able to
*writing notes, intentional thoughts, holding someone without the constant questions
*what does thoughtfulness look like for this individual
*D1 YAPPER!!!!!
*the aftermath of experiencing cancer
*your experience is up to you! 
*No one can learn your lessons for you!
*if not here, then where? - the privilege of being with her dad when he died, watching his physical body fall silent and seeing his essence rise up from him
*love and connection is everywhere

Book recommendation:
Poetry: Andrea Gibson; Rumi

Reach out to Brenna @ brenna.c.hughes@gmail.com
When in Davis, check out Simply Set Spaces www.simplysetspaces.com; Avid Reader in Davis: www.avidreaderbooks.com and Mishka Cafe: www.mishkacafe.com