Wonderful reflection. I started journaling in my late teens but didn't turn it into a regular practice until I was in my mid 40s. By late May I'll hit the milestone of 2000 consecutive daily entries. Some days were sentences, others were pages.
Ah Brambly Hedge! I did your Journal your Life course a few years back and I found it so so beautiful and insightful. Perfect for this time of year and our black page feeling. Happy New Year to you Susannah! ✨✍️🪄 📖
Love everything about this! Journaling saves us, I am sure of it. I will never forget one particularly dark night, after running into my ex. I was devastated when he told me he was moving away from the area. That night I came very close to the edge of the darkness I hadn’t seen since I feel into a deep depression as a teenager. That night I pulled out my neglected old journal and started writing. I wrote all night and basically wrote myself away from the ledge. When dawn broke I was exhausted but saved. P.S. I LOVED your journaling course! ❤️
The power of journaling will never cease to amaze me. I truly believe it literally saves lives. I honestly don't know where I'd be today if it wasn't for my journaling practice. Thanks for sharing your reflections with us. 😊
You are fortunate to have an outlet to put your honest feelings down in black and white, or blue, or red or even in sparkles rather than harbor them within and let the fester and eat at your psyche.
I love this. I started journaling as a daily practice last august, and it's been life-changing and super fun for me. It's something I hope to continue as a practice for years to come. Thanks for sharing your journey!
I'm a lifelong journaler also and I often wonder how people who don't journal make it through. I tend to journal in waves--I'll write in it intensely for a few months, then slack off. It's never very long, though, until I start to feel the itch. I never go anywhere without my journal, and its always the first thing I pack when I travel. As you say it's my lifelong friend.
Still have my own Brambly Hedge diary, and a few Lesley Anne Ivory (do you know of her? I think you'd love her work!) notebooks too, from around the age of 9 or 10. Also a Funfax! Thanks for the memories Susannah. Glorious (and not so glorious, but memories nonetheless) ❤️
I, like you, did journalling in my early teens and mostly about crushes. My very introverted self was never brave enough to do anything about them so pining from afar in my journal was what my little teen self did instead. I don't think I journalled in my 20s but I wish I had. 20s in terms of self-awareness are very foggy but I know a lot of it was filled with insatiable seeking, anxiety and purposelessness. 30s on the other hand have seen a lot of words spilled out onto the pages. Like you, I talk to myself about myself and it has been such a lovely safe space to explore, discover and dream. I love going back from time to time and see the beginning of things and realise how far I've come. As someone with a very activa brain, my journal is my saving grace, as I'm sure it is for so many of us avid journallers. :)
Hello. I took both of your tarot classes last year and they each helped me different ways to pick up my journal writing. I have journaled since my late teens though infrequently. I am sure I no longer possess all of the notebooks though I still have some. I think I read them and was then embarrassed at my younger self or was afraid someone would read them when I was dead and think poorly of me (ah, youth and vanity) in a way that I no longer can be. I have learned since then that I would not be if she had not been. So today I can honor her and oh, so wish I still had those journals. Your point about not writing to an audience really landed with me today.
Love all of this! What magic journaling is- thank you for keeping the love affair going- your inspiration always reinvigorates my own practice. Viva la journal! 🥰
I have been journaling for nearly 60 years beginning on my 8th birthday, I have never missed a year of journaling, this July 1st I will be 68 years old. Starting out with the Dear Diary type of book, moving onto composition notebooks and endless blank journals. In the 80's I kept a pregnancy journal in addition to my personal journal and a journal of my son's first 5 years. Currently, I have 78 filled journals with no sign of stopping. I can imagine a day without writing about my day.
I love this - as you know, I went through some unbelievable trauma last year and I am still so thankful for the spot in the class last year. I’m so so excited to create a safe place for myself as I work through healing and new adventures (getting married!) and back into the daily practice.
It used to be something I did daily in my 20s but fell out of practice. So so excited to start again!
I was also 11 when I started journaling! I also endured a terrible betrayal when my best friend at age 14 read my journal to her brother whom I had a crush on! The nerve!!! It would be fun to chat about this stuff in one of the meetings on journal love club!
Wonderful reflection. I started journaling in my late teens but didn't turn it into a regular practice until I was in my mid 40s. By late May I'll hit the milestone of 2000 consecutive daily entries. Some days were sentences, others were pages.
Ah Brambly Hedge! I did your Journal your Life course a few years back and I found it so so beautiful and insightful. Perfect for this time of year and our black page feeling. Happy New Year to you Susannah! ✨✍️🪄 📖
Love everything about this! Journaling saves us, I am sure of it. I will never forget one particularly dark night, after running into my ex. I was devastated when he told me he was moving away from the area. That night I came very close to the edge of the darkness I hadn’t seen since I feel into a deep depression as a teenager. That night I pulled out my neglected old journal and started writing. I wrote all night and basically wrote myself away from the ledge. When dawn broke I was exhausted but saved. P.S. I LOVED your journaling course! ❤️
The power of journaling will never cease to amaze me. I truly believe it literally saves lives. I honestly don't know where I'd be today if it wasn't for my journaling practice. Thanks for sharing your reflections with us. 😊
You are fortunate to have an outlet to put your honest feelings down in black and white, or blue, or red or even in sparkles rather than harbor them within and let the fester and eat at your psyche.
I’ve recently got back to journaling and I also now have an art journal. I love a moleskin also! But anything will do 😉
I love this. I started journaling as a daily practice last august, and it's been life-changing and super fun for me. It's something I hope to continue as a practice for years to come. Thanks for sharing your journey!
I'm a lifelong journaler also and I often wonder how people who don't journal make it through. I tend to journal in waves--I'll write in it intensely for a few months, then slack off. It's never very long, though, until I start to feel the itch. I never go anywhere without my journal, and its always the first thing I pack when I travel. As you say it's my lifelong friend.
Still have my own Brambly Hedge diary, and a few Lesley Anne Ivory (do you know of her? I think you'd love her work!) notebooks too, from around the age of 9 or 10. Also a Funfax! Thanks for the memories Susannah. Glorious (and not so glorious, but memories nonetheless) ❤️
I, like you, did journalling in my early teens and mostly about crushes. My very introverted self was never brave enough to do anything about them so pining from afar in my journal was what my little teen self did instead. I don't think I journalled in my 20s but I wish I had. 20s in terms of self-awareness are very foggy but I know a lot of it was filled with insatiable seeking, anxiety and purposelessness. 30s on the other hand have seen a lot of words spilled out onto the pages. Like you, I talk to myself about myself and it has been such a lovely safe space to explore, discover and dream. I love going back from time to time and see the beginning of things and realise how far I've come. As someone with a very activa brain, my journal is my saving grace, as I'm sure it is for so many of us avid journallers. :)
Hello. I took both of your tarot classes last year and they each helped me different ways to pick up my journal writing. I have journaled since my late teens though infrequently. I am sure I no longer possess all of the notebooks though I still have some. I think I read them and was then embarrassed at my younger self or was afraid someone would read them when I was dead and think poorly of me (ah, youth and vanity) in a way that I no longer can be. I have learned since then that I would not be if she had not been. So today I can honor her and oh, so wish I still had those journals. Your point about not writing to an audience really landed with me today.
Love all of this! What magic journaling is- thank you for keeping the love affair going- your inspiration always reinvigorates my own practice. Viva la journal! 🥰
I have been journaling for nearly 60 years beginning on my 8th birthday, I have never missed a year of journaling, this July 1st I will be 68 years old. Starting out with the Dear Diary type of book, moving onto composition notebooks and endless blank journals. In the 80's I kept a pregnancy journal in addition to my personal journal and a journal of my son's first 5 years. Currently, I have 78 filled journals with no sign of stopping. I can imagine a day without writing about my day.
I love this - as you know, I went through some unbelievable trauma last year and I am still so thankful for the spot in the class last year. I’m so so excited to create a safe place for myself as I work through healing and new adventures (getting married!) and back into the daily practice.
It used to be something I did daily in my 20s but fell out of practice. So so excited to start again!
I was also 11 when I started journaling! I also endured a terrible betrayal when my best friend at age 14 read my journal to her brother whom I had a crush on! The nerve!!! It would be fun to chat about this stuff in one of the meetings on journal love club!