four Quarters of Becoming More Attuned to Difficult Emotions
There is so much tension that surrounds us this year. So many of us, myself included, are feeling anger, dread, grief, and defeat about the upcoming days. There is a lot that we don’t have agency over.
Finding what’s controllable in what seems completely out of control is incredibly important to our physical and mental well-being.
I created this project to blend my art with my journey of connecting language to my emotions. My aim is to help you deepen your emotional connections in order to better navigate the turbulence we're all facing.
This project is not about shifting out of negativity into positivity, but out of negativity into neutrality. It’s not about making the storms go away, but accepting that storms are going to come and having the tools to be ready for them.
I recognize that what has worked for me may not work for others. I went through many different things trying to figure out what clicked. My hope is that some of what I share clicks for you.
HOW THE PROJECT WORKS
2025 is broken down into 4 quarters and 4 emotions.
January - March: Anger
April - June: Grief
July - September: Defeat
October - December: Dread
January - March:
April - June:
July - September:
October - December
Anger
Grief
Defeat
Dread
Two mandala videos will be published to YouTube each month (except January) that focus on expressing and releasing the emotion of that quarter. The beginning of the video is a somatic exercise to follow along with that transitions into a relaxing mandala.
If you would like to dive a bit deeper into the emotion beyond watching the video, there is an accompanying PDF guide available for purchase. More info on that below.
There is no paywall or exclusive link to the videos, they will always be available for free.
EMOTIONAL SHIFT PDF GUIDES
PDF guides include the meaning behind the mandala in the corresponding video and how to work with it, an essay about a topic relevant to the emotion, additional release exercises and/or other suggestions for how to connect with the beauty of the world, and audio/reading resources.
Guides are available for purchase individually for each video, per quarter as a quarterly membership, or a complete set in a year-long 2025 membership.
INDIVIDUAL GUIDES
$5 each
Single guides will be linked on this webpage, in the description of each YouTube video as well as in each email newsletter.
QUARTERLY MEMBERSHIP
$22 - 1st quarter
Membership gets you access to every Emotional Shift guide in a quarter as they become released. You’ll receive a notification each time a new video and guide becomes available.
Quarterly membership for Quarter One gets you a 12% discount off of purchasing the guides individually (a $3 savings). Your guides will be available for download until the end of 2025.
Because there is one fewer guide and video in the first quarter, the price is less than the next quarters will be. Quarters 2-4 will be $27 each.
Membership does not automatically renew at the end of the quarter; you will only be billed for one quarter.
YEAR-LONG MEMBERSHIP
$85/year
A year long membership gets you access to every Emotional Shift guide for the entirety of 2025 (23 guides) as they become released. You’ll receive a notification each time a new video and guide becomes available.
Year-long membership gets you one quarter of guides (6 guides) for free!
Membership does not automatically renew at the end of the year; you will only be billed for 2025.
QUARTER ONE - ANGER
One of the most charged emotions, anger tends to bring up additional feelings of shame as we are conditioned to not be “angry people.” Anger is actually an incredibly useful emotion and can be positive when channelled well. Working with our anger allows us to engage more intelligently and calmly with whatever issue is at hand.
Guide One is titled “We Are Angry All the Time” and focuses on how current events are leaving us feeling perpetually angry. It may be something we just have to accept, but by no means do we have to be passive in our acceptance. In fact, it’s better for our health if we’re not.
Guide One is available as pay what you wish.
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