For a year while i traveled i wrote minimum 3 pages but at night before sleeping. It helped me rest and curb phone addiction. It takes me time to write and id do it until i couldnt keep my eyes open. My words would get jumbled and sincere by then. Im usually rushing in the morning or time blind, transitioning from my sleep body is hard, but journaling after waking is potent too. I tend to start out writing what i think i should write, then just dumping stream of consciousness style, and then usually am called to write down affirmation-y things between. I also will write over pages in my sketchbook as my art comes to me as words sometimes first :^)
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put a notebook and pen by your bed, and as soon as you wake up, grab the notebook and write 1, 2, 3 pages stream of consciousness, whatever comes up on your mind. don’t check your phone, don’t talk to your partner, don’t do anything besides get a tea or glass of water or coffee until you’re done writing.
May 6, 2024
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The other day I went to a coffee shop with the intention of reading my book but instead spent about two hours writing in my journal.
I’m not a great journaler. It’s the kind of relationship where I’ll pick it up when I’m going through something, be really consistent for a couple days, and then once I’m feeling lighter I won’t touch it for months.
I’m definitely not in the easiest season of life right now, but im not actively shittingscreamingcryingthrowingup about anything at the moment. For some reason though, despite my mentally “up” state of being, I was desperate to write down everything I’ve been thinking and feeling in the past couple weeks.
I honestly think it’s why the past couple days I haven’t posted anything on this app is because anything I would’ve mused about I already wrote in my journal lol. I even considered just taking a picture of the journal pages and posting them here but that felt too intimate? Maybe?
Feb 23, 2025
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I started writing down my dreams first thing in the morning and I remember them so much more clearly now. Sometimes when I read it back, it feels like I can’t recall any of it but then i get a flash of recognition of a moments or setting, like little pieces of a film coming back to me.
I tr to also do a regular journal but am not as consistent, it’s in the same notebook but a different color pen. I’ve found it very helpful to write when I’m anxious, avoidant , or just struggling to turn my brain off.
May 7, 2025
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describes my life more than ever as i enter my saturn return. sooooooo goddamn good.
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