between process & possibility

A design + wellbeing journal exploring the questions, connections and emotions that emerge
in the space between design process and transformative possibility.

Denise Shanté 10/30/18 Denise Shanté 10/30/18

For Arrivals: Welcoming What Comes When the Whole World Opens Up

I’ve been pulling cards lately.

SoulCards.
The Orisha cards.
Cards online.
Cards offline.

But most recently, I’ve been drawn to the Motherpeace tarot deck.

Denise Shanté 5/14/18 Denise Shanté 5/14/18

Less Brokenness, More Peace

When you’re so used to feeling pain and experiencing loss and heartbreak and trauma, you start to believe you are that pain, loss, heartbreak, and trauma. It’s a toxic relationship that you become attached to, dangerously dependent upon, and it’s scary to think that you may lose the very part of yourself that has been so close, so comforting even with its psychological turmoil and self-destructive patterns.