All posts tagged: journal

Guided Journal Review: Finding ‘The One’.

I’m a big fan of writing it down. Always have been, always will be. There are so many reasons why I love writing as a form of expression; yet I think the main reason is a sense of control. If a thought or an experince can be distilled into a few words on a piece of paper for me it stops being this mythical, nebulous multitude of thoughts that I can’t catch into something that can be seen, read over, returned to and for a time maybe even forgotten. I love writing. However, I’m an exceptionally patchy journal keeper. I have countless notebooks that have entries from 2016 right up to 2021. I can go months without the desire to write in my journal (even though I know it makes me feel lighter and clearer). Recently I’ve realised that this has something to do with the empty page. Sometimes I relish an empty page, but the majority of the time when I’m really trying to work through something knotty in my heart and soul an …

Soulful Sentences: Why I keep coming back to the humble journal.

When I was a kid I was very dedicated to my journal. I would religiously write my thoughts, ideas and grievances into its glitter edged pages with my special fluffy pen. I have always been curious about my brain, my mind; what it is that makes me tick. I sometimes find my thoughts to be like unwelcome strangers that need to be put on trial or shown the back door. Sometimes my mind is a very loud place to inhabit and I know I’m not the only one to feel this way. In my early twenties I wrote poetry in my journal. I found something deeply soothing about taking big emotions and condensing them onto a single page within the confines of a structure. These thoughts and feelings no longer felt so intimidating when they sat within their poetic cages sandwiched between sheets of paper. I had control over them, and somehow their power lost some of its grip on me. To me journaling holds a secret nature. My journal has always had a hidden …