Welcome to Summer Camp for Beauty Hunters
Week 1 🥁 - Welcome orientation, and first topic prompt, here we go!
Dear Beauty Hunters,
Welcome to the first-ever Summer Camp for Beauty Hunters!
Today is a quick overview of what we’ll be doing here together, PLUS our first topic & activity prompt.
Keep reading to the end — our first week’s topic is reimagining ways to REST.
Summer Camp Details
WHEN: June 18 - September 10
WHERE: Your email inbox | Beauty Hunter website | The World
BH SUMMER CAMP THEME: To play and R & R like never before.
💥PLAY: Let’s spend Summer 2024 imagining that life’s purpose is to engage with a playful & beautiful universe. For three months, we’ll consider weekly themes and prompts that invite us to be more in and of the world and less consumed by the unreliable narrators of our minds.
💥R & R: What if we rested, relaxed, recreated, and recouped in new & fresh ways, ones that deeply supported us, ones that helped us stay engaged with our lives, the people in them, and the challenges of our times?
It’s election season in the U.S. Let’s move deeper into life and living (or try to stay in it), even when we want to hide and close our eyes.
HOW SUMMER CAMP WORKS:
You’ll receive new posts every Tuesday. Look for SUMMER CAMP in the subject.
Each week will highlight a topic or focus, accompanied by a prompt or activity—morsels that you can easily integrate into daily life.
Once a month you’ll receive a recap email, a way to review and reflect on new experiences and insights. Stay tuned for open chats or a pop-up salon along the way.
Summer Camp runs for 12 weeks. You can engage however you like—start at any time, pick up where you left off, and save some activities for later. Let’s see what happens!
Summer Camp is for paid subscribers, but free to all subscribers through July 3. After that, you can upgrade to a monthly subscription, and pay $8 per month, which means you can go to summer camp for 12 weeks, for just $24. ☀️
🌻 rest 🌻 rest 🌻 rest 🌻
Summer Camp Week 1
Re-imagine Rest
Let’s consider an existence where “rest” might be less ….
… and more:
What if the ultimate “rest” is inviting neighbors to dinner, connecting with an old friend, going to a matinee on a Monday, listening to exactly three songs in the morning before doing anything “important.”
What if Rest = picking up a new sport (race walking, pickleball, handstand-ing, submerging body in water); starting or returning to an arts or craft? How about a moratorium on “shoulds,” or a rest from saying Yes to seeing people out of duty rather than delight? A rest from worrying the world is going to hell in a handbasket?
R&R ANECDOTE: Last weekend I was TIRED, the kind of tired where you feel like you’ve earned the right to nap for hours. Fair enough, this makes good sense. However, this particular human also happens to spend a lot of the week working solo from my home office. The extrovert and “universe player” sometimes goes undernourished—and yet, I more often default to introverted ways when this system loves more stimulating recouping. On this particular Sunday, one voice was telling me to stay home and read and nap, while another was encouraging me to go jump on the trampoline with my grandkids. I was paying attention to these contrasting pulls and pushes because of Summer Camp, and answered the call of the ULTIMATE R&R for my Sunday: jump on that tramp with those kids! It was refreshing, relaxing, rejuvenating—all of the perfect Rs. The tank went from E to F with each bounce and howl.
Have you ever noticed that the retreating and withdrawing forms of R&R sometimes drain you even more, and make you want to run for the bedcovers even more?
WEEK 1 PROMPT: Watch how you automatically want to “rest,” and take a short pause, ask yourself two questions:
Is it true that this is what my mind-body system most wants?
Is there another way to rest that might refresh and fill up the tank even more than_______, one that will keep my play endurance going strong?
Test it. No right or wrong answer, just experiment in the great laboratory of life and learning. Next week, we’ll pick one Rest Activity to keep in play for a while. xo
That’s it for Summer Camp kick-off.
Happy “resting” everyone. xo
I love how your mind work, Tatyana! Looking forward to sharing s'mores with you this summer camp!
Thanks Kelli❣️ right back at you😘