a journal addict confession
well, well, well...... my name is grace and i confess, i am a journal addict. i own a whole bunch { no, i mean really a lot }. it all started when i was 12 and received my first journal. mine was red and it had a lock. yeh, i know...you had one too right, or something like it? i think every one had one of these.
btw....i came across mine the other day. oh boy the musings of a 12 year old!
i remember not wanting to write in it in the beginning. mainly because i knew my little brother was waiting in the wings to grab it and start reading it out loud to the whole world. i know this how? cause i saw his non-poker face when i brought this bright red, life chronicle home.
so i waited him out, sorta, and then began writing my 12 yr old hormonal heartwords down in that book. i must have abandoned it early on because entries abruptly stop at one point and i don't remember what i went to after that.
i might have gone to school notebooks cause i do have loads of those filled with my musings. maybe i was trying to trick my nosey trickster brother so he wouldn't read it, you know...hide in plain site kinda thing. ha!
over the next years i wrote in my journals on and off, thru most of my 20's. the next set of journals i remember keeping, and that i still have, were those i wrote in when hubby and i moved to nc.
those were trying times because we had no family near us { his in england, mine in the bahamas } and 2 small children, aged 6 mths & 2½ yrs. i remember writing thru tears sometimes, pouring out my sorrow at one thing or another.
i still love to journal my heartwords
i journal more regularly these days and, over the last few years have added other types of journaling to my repertoire..... art & visual journaling, creating lists after lists of "grateful"s and recording quotes and inspiring words i come across { i still keep a journal just for capturing quotes and words that move or inspire me }. another way i journal is to sometimes collage those words and magazine images in my "Yes, This." composition book.
the journal writing i do these days is more about my life and feelings and ideas and lists and following prompts, so much less about my sorrows—which i still experience but, thankfully, on such a scaled down version. this i think is due to the fact that i live my life so much more authentically and am more in tune with my inner be-ingness.
"Being able to let things go & not hang on to the angst is the one of biggest hurdles journaling will help you overcome." username="kgracehowes"]
what about you? what do you journal about?
how has it helped it you move through your day, a week, your life? leave a comment below and let's have a conversation.
toodles,
G
| Did You Know |
....that a shop journal update will be happening next week? Woohoo!!! ...more spaces to hold your heartwords.
....I'm starting something new { one of those "just because" things y'all }. With every shop journal update I'll also be emailing out a 10% off coupon to use on any item in the shop. If you're already a JOY Love Tribe member you'll get the discount automatically. If you're not a JLT member yet, sign up here and get in on all the goodies!
....there's something new in the works for the journals I'll be making going forward. More info about this coming up in the next "Updates & Happenings" newsletter.