Journal Challenge Day 16: Visual Love Letters
Today I'm creating visual love letters in my journal.
This is a fun + creative way of learning more about how to grow your dream.
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Journal Challenge Day 15: Resistance
Creative Resistance is a part of the process of creative practice.
Not feeling like journaling is a part of a journaling practice!
Today I have no creative journal pages to share, instead have a lot to say about resistance to creative spiritual practice.
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Journal Challenge Day 14: Soothing Overwhelm
I've been in a bit of a flurry of creative activity and today I hit a point of overwhelm.
So today's journaling is about soothing overwhelm and coming back to center.
The post on How To Draw Mandalas is right here (it's easy peasy, I promise!).
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Journal Challenge Day 13: More Creative Visioning
Creative Visioning is one of the things I do the most in my journals.
It's simple, fun and effective - I know I do better work when I do this process BEFORE doing the "real work".
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Journal Challenge Day 12: Creative Genius Planning Sessions
Creative Genius Planning!
AKA Planning from the sweet spot where all things are possible: where the outer work of dream-building is informed, inspired + activated by the magic of your inner world.
This is the stuff that dreams are built on.
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Journal Challenge Day 11: Giving Sadness Space in your Journal
We did explore sadness in an earlier video in this series, but here it is, back again: journaling when sad.
Today I'm talking about how giving uncomfortable feelings SPACE to EXPRESS in your journal honours your feelings, your self and your dreams.
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Journal Challenge Day 10: Money Journaling
Today is my monthly meeting with money, in my journal.
As you'll see, I don't sit down with a pile of cash or with cash flow projections - money journaling is a soul to soul meeting, to nurture my inner relationship with money.
Doing this money journaling every month is crazy helpful.
Even when it feels like nothing is happening, you ARE developing your inner relationship with money by spending time with it like this, and this WILL open up new possibilities for what you and money can create together.
The Creative with Money Kit that I mentioned comes as a bonus when you join Dream Book.
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Journal Challenge Day 9: How To Cure Crankies (Or Anything Else!) Using Your Journal
The downside of doing a 30 day video challenge is that it means that I will have to do a video on My Crankiest Day Of The Month.
But, of course, this is an opportunity to share how to cure crankies using your journal, AKA art journaling for healing, so here it is:
Art journaling for healing is one of my favourite things.
Once you get into the flow with it, it's beautiful and soothing and gentle and effective.
Be gentle with yourself as you experiment with it, it can take some to get used to giving space to how you're actually feeling, and explore more about what you actually need.
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Journal Challenge Day 8: How To Use Your Journal As a Dream-Growing MACHINE
Manifesting Dreams into Reality: This is what it's all about, right?
Today I sat down with my journal and promptly stumbled into a really common pitfall when it comes to using an art journal as a tool for manifesting dreams into reality... so I immediately stopped to record this video.
One thing I forgot to add to this is that I didn't mean to say to NEVER write about what's happening right now in your journal... stream of consciousness journaling practices like Julia Cameron's morning pages can be super helpful!
What I did mean is that it is helpful to have a separate journal as your creative dream journal, where you can keep your attention focused on holding the vision.
Holding the vision for long enough to bring the dream to life is not easy.
Having a journal where this is ALL you do can really help build up that energy. If you'd like a supportive + encouraging space to play along, filled with all the best tools for accessing + activating your magic join me in the Creative Dream Circle!
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Journal Challenge Day 7: Intuitive Journaling
Living your dreams is about living your truth. So learning how to HEAR your inner voice and learning to navigate by your internal compass is a huge part of bringing a dream to life. That's what I'm talking about today!
Intuitive journaling is about listening.
It may feel frustrating or like nothing is happening, but usually you have to get into the practice of listening before you start to hear anything.
Your intuitive voice is there - I promise. It's just that if you haven't spent a lot of time listening to it, it takes some time to start to be able to hear it.
Unfortunately the free video about making Creative Genius cards has been lost over the years. I do have a full class on this which you get with the bonuses in Dream Book.
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Journal Challenge Day 6: What To Do With ALL of Those Creative Ideas
Too many ideas?
Creative people get a LOT of ideas! And it's too easy to jump on the inspiration train and invest (your heart, your time, your energy, your attention, your money) in an idea BEFORE you even know for sure if it's going to bring you closer to where you want to be.
Processing your ideas, getting to know them, being clear on where they came from, what qualities and experiences they can bring into your life and if they're going to help you get to where you want to be is a valuable process.
Finding clarity about all of this is PURE MAGIC. It saves time and energy and potential heartbreak. It helps you shift through too many ideas to find those absolute gems - the best ideas for you to pursue right now.
That's what I was doing in my journal today.
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Journal Challenge Day 5: The Magic of Grounding + Integration
Today I'm talking about the importance of pausing, resting + integrating and how that is NOT the same as "taking a break".
This is part of what makes journaling CREATIVE (ala CREATING your WORLD).
Your art journal practice is going to bring you insights and ideas and when it does you need to give yourself time and space to process, ground and integrate or else nothing is going to change.
Here is the link to the how to draw mandalas post.
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Journal Day 4: Clearing Overwhelm+ Finding Clarity
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
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.