Journal Prompts

Journal Day 4: Clearing Overwhelm+ Finding Clarity

Using your art journal for dealing with overwhelm

Dealing with overwhelm is not fun.

As a HSP (highly sensitive person) overwhelm is something that I am very familiar with, so of course I have come up with a way to handle it in my art journal.

There's lot in today's video:

  • How your journal can help handle overwhelm.
  • What to do when you don't know what you want or what your dream is.
  • Uncovering + activating more gifts of disappointment.
  • Changing gears.

 

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Journal Challenge Day 3: What to do when you feel too sad & hopeless to journal

what to do when you feel too sad

Sometimes you feel too sad to journal. Like everything is helpless so why bother?

When I started this 30 day challenge, I knew at some point in this I would want to talk about how it's important that your journal be a space that welcomes all feelings - that there's nothing wrong with you if you feel sad or hopeless or whatever.

We all feel this way sometimes. And your journal can be a REALLY powerful place for working through these feelings.

So I knew it would come up, but  I was hoping this would come up later than day 31

But here it is today, how to journal when you feel too sad to journal:

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Journal Challenge Day 2: The Dangers of Relentless Positivity + The Magic of Disappointment

I wanted to keep the videos under 5 minutes, but today's lesson is SO important I had to share the whole thing (10 minutes).

It's about the dangers of relentless positivity the magic + helpfulness of disappointment.

It can be really hard to know how to deal with disappointment, especially in your art journal where you kind of want things to be bright, happy and positive.

But putting on a happy face while trying to sweep something like disappointment under the rug actually sweeps your dreams + desires under the rug.

You know that you actually need to deal with disappointment. Finding ways to be with your disappointment (be with is different from wallow in!) transforms it and shows you the gifts in it.

This is how an art journal can help you deal with disappointment, by giving you a space to express and be with how you're feeling without making it, or you, wrong.

I know when you feel disappointment, the last thing you want to do is FEEL your disappointment, but I promise that that is the path to freedom.

This morning I woke up nervous and unsure about this project - will it be interesting and inspiring? Will I run out of things to say? Will I just discover that this was a dumb idea?

But right now I am SO HAPPY I am doing this.

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30 Day Creative Journal Challenge

30 day creative journal challenge

Do the 30 day creative journal challenge with me!!30 day journal challenge

It started as a challenge to myself: to make a daily video to share my journaling practice more openly.

I did this in 2013 and now here we are in 2020 and people are still using those videos to journal along with me!

People keep telling me how helpful and inspiring it is to not be all alone in their journaling - some people have done this several times and learn new things about themselves each time.

Why a 30 day Journal Challenge:

You already know that journaling is magic.

Journaling helps you feel more centred, peaceful and sure of yourself. It helps you hear your inner voice more clearly.

Journaling helps you connect with your dreams!

But.. sometimes it's hard to journal CONSISTENTLY or to know what to write about!

A 30 day journal Challenge will help you:

Develop a habit of journaling every day (or close to it) so that you can get MORE of the amazing benefits of journaling.

Stick with your journaling practice when you want to give up. We ALL want to give up sometimes - but those times, when it feels really hard to journal, are actually the times when there are the most insights to be had.

(I show you EXACTLY how this works during the 30 day journal challenge)

HAVE MORE FUN in your journal.

HAVE MORE IDEAS for HOW to journal.

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Journal Prompts for Jealousy

Journal Prompts for Jealousy

Journal Prompts for Jealousy.

Jealousy fucking sucks.

And it becomes so easy to start thinking...

it's so easy for her

everything is just handed to them

it's not fair

It becomes easy to start comparing. To start freaking out.

To start wondering if you really are good enough to make this happen.

And if you are good enough, why is it happening for other people but not for you?

Ouch.

Jealousy can let loose a massive tidal wave of energy and "stuff".

And when you're in it, it's anything but pleasant.

But it's also pretty unavoidable.

Hello! There are billions of us on this planet. Others are bound to have what you want.

Just like you are bound to have things that other people want.

Jealousy is actually a super useful tool for Creative Dreaming, if you're willing to be with it.

Jealousy, like any other feeling, has a lot to teach you, if we are willing to work with it.

If you are open to learn from it.

Jealousy can show you more about what you want.

Sometimes jealousy can be a great big surprise - sometimes you didn't even know you wanted something until you saw someone else get it.

Sometimes you kinda knew, but were keeping it a buried just beneath the surface. Until so-and-so got it.

And now it's not so beneath the surface anymore

It's right up in your face that you want this thing that someone else just got.

This is good because the odds of you getting what you want raise dramatically when you are willing to admit you want it.

But looking deeper than that... jealousy can steer you towards where your own stuff is getting in the way of your success.

This is the part where it gets Really Uncomfortable: Journaling Prompts for Overcoming Jealousy

When you start really exploring it, your jealousy shines a light on your limiting beliefs. The places where you hold yourself back.

To start really exploring it, ask yourself:

Who are you jealous of? Why?

How does it feel?

What does it say about you?

And by ask yourself I mean really ask yourself. Spend some time with them and the answers and the feelings they spark.

 

Who are you jealous of? Why? Of course this shows you more about what you really want.

How does it feel? What does that say about you? Now this is where it starts to get interesting.

I'm jealous of so-and-so because she just got such-and-such and it makes me feel like I am never going to get it for myself.

I'm jealous of so-and-so because she just got such-and-such and now there is less for me.

I'm jealous of so-and-so because she just got such-and-such and now if I get it people will think I am copying her.

I'm jealous of so-and-so because she just got such-and-such and it makes me feel like I must be stupid and hopeless because I haven't figured out how to get it yet.

I'm jealous of so-and-so because she just got such-and-such so she must be better at it than I am.

The way the jealousy makes you feel shows you something about where you are stuck.

If you think someone else getting what you want makes it less likely that you will ever get it - this is showing you that you hold a belief in lack. There isn't enough to go around. Working on shifting this belief will help you be less stuck with your dreams.

If you think someone else getting what you want is a sign that you are stupid or hopeless or anything - this is showing you the places in you where you don't really believe that you are good enough. Working on shifting this belief will help you be less stuck with your dreams.

You may or may not be aware of these beliefs, they may be sub-conscious or not - doesn't really matter. Jealousy is bringing them to light. You see them now. One you see them, they are ready to be healed and shifted into beliefs that are going to nurture and support you.

Whatever it is, it is holding you back.

Invisibly and beneath the surface, jealousy trips you up and keeps you from shining your brightest light.

And it only pops up above the surface when it gets stirred up by something like jealousy.

So having it be up here on the surface where you can see it is actually a huge gift.

Because you can learn about it and change it and heal it and when you do, you open up more space inside you for your creative genius.

I'd love to SHOW YOU how this works.

I did a free healing circle and inner work workshop where I lead you through the process of working with your fear.

Try it today:

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