#gratefulpresence

[whoislauralee]

What a beautiful birthday yesterday! 🎂 💕Full of art, music, love, magical animals, and beautiful friends both old & new. Thank you everyone who we visited on our birthday yes train around town @365songbird @beetpilgrim @frankydofficial @railyard.apothecary @caledoniacannabis @corinne830 @rlindsay_comics + everyone who has sent me happy tidings!!! My heart’s battery feels recharged indeed.🙏🥰Here are 10 highlights to accompany my 10 birthday wishes, which shortened to their openings read: TO WALK TO MODEL TO SHED TO FORGIVE TO STAY TO EMBODY TO LIVE TO RECEIVE TO MAKE TO CONNECT. 💫✨Because as I told little Bella, as a grown-up you can make MORE than one wish at a time....if you’ve had enough practice. 🎀 #birthday #happybirthdaytome #gratefulpresence #creativelife #burlingtonvt #yestrain #artnerlove (at Burlington, Vermont) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFuxJg5F73K/?igshid=ye10g897cdr0

[whoislauralee]

On this birthday I am grateful for health of body & mind, the gifts I am blessed to joyfully serve, and the loving connections across space & time (and within myself) that keep me in the light through the shadowed moments. 💝✨I thank you for those heart string connections that bind us across distance & isolation—and especially for all the sweet birthday wishes!!🥰🙏 🎀 + thanks for this cool photo @playfuly0g1 📸 #gratefulpresence #gpfrequency #birthdaygram #polaroid #lookingahead https://www.instagram.com/p/CUYJ9XIlkK8/?utm_medium=tumblr

[whoislauralee]

This year I thought it’d be funny to send seemingly BLANK holiday cards because the future feels so unclear...but then SURPRISE it’s really a rainbow scratch board! ✍️🌈Because despite all the unknowns of the moment I trust there are beautiful visions & unexpected blessings yet to be revealed...🙏✨Wishing you all a safe & happy holiday with unexpected delights! 💖🎄🎀#scratchboard #livedrawing #artnerdare #gratefulpresence #holidaycard #creativecards #happyholidays https://www.instagram.com/p/CJO3d4WliIF/?igshid=c7s9vbbq5cfe

[whoislauralee]

This NEW ARTWORK is about my Matter....🌀🕳 When I’ve been able to hear & feel it in the past it’s made panic, scared it would consume me.😱But thankfully I’ve learned there is an invisible barrier between us, like a sheet of glass. It’s what I call my GP Frequency: Grateful Presence. I couldn’t feel it or name it until recently, but now I know it’s there supporting me.🙏✨This image has been stuck in my mind since before the pandemic, but it was my recent traumatic housing experience that actually brought it into focus. Because another person’s Matter was being thrown at me...a Matter MUCH scarier and darker than mine. 👻It forced me to double down on my healing & restorative practices, reinforcing the glass so to speak.🌟So yes, maybe I can hear those dark thoughts sometimes. But now I’m more focused on my GP Frequency instead...and now my Matter doesn’t seem nearly as scary.💫 . . . #art #illustration #newart #lauraleegulledge #arttherapy #whatsthematter #darkmatter #darkthoughts #drawitout #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters #evolveoverimplode #healing #gouache #gouachegirl #stayingpositive #presence #gratitude #gratefulpresence #gpfrequency https://www.instagram.com/p/CG5w0pEFxCQ/?igshid=7qzi5141twur

[whoislauralee]

Page #2 of HIKE BREAK! 💙🌿Listening to nature is SUCH a nice rest from listening to all those ever-present thoughts. It helps me tune into my #gpfrequency AKA #gratefulpresence ✨🙏 Also, can you tell I had fun designing these layouts?? Next page of this 5 page comic coming tomorrow!✍️💫 . . . #comic #graphicnovel #hikebreak #blueink #lauraleegulledge #contemplativeart #autobiocomics #selfcareisselfpreservation #mindfulnessmoment #natureheals #naturetherapy https://www.instagram.com/p/CP36QZBFuX-/?utm_medium=tumblr