I found that writing quotes that you find inspiring or just TV ou movies quotes that have an impact on you, in an art therapy format (like all the page ou a double page even with colors and all you fancy) is very freeing. Also, it helps when you read back. Also, mixing words and art to view your problem with a complete diffrent angle or access emotions. 🖌
Your tips are all so great, I love the way you constantly keep hold of the "you can do whatever works for you, there are no journal police" message and at the same time fill in the candy dish with so many great ideas for people to grab onto to get started. One of the things I do in my life is teach art with and for at risk teens at an alternate school program and just being given a wide open "use your imagination, do whatever you want" can be the opposite of helpful. You get it, and we all benefit!
Writing is a physical manifestation of thought, from 1-10, it is one of the easiest and often the most powerful of all magical techniques. Write your own narrative otherwise someone else will write it for you! Great content Kelly as always 🙏😊
something that holds me back from writing freely is that i've had several experiences where people have read through my journals. growing up at home, in school, partners i've lived with, partners who have been in my room while i'm in the kitchen, friends who have stayed over. the overstepping of boundaries quickly eroded those relationships, but it's left me with a hyper-awareness every time i'm writing something i wouldn't want anyone to read. and sure, i could try to keep it under lock and key but the thing is i have like 7 journals and i like to have them at hand because i never know when the urge to write will kick in. and once i pop one open, there's no telling when i'll be done. i'll have all sorts of notebooks papers laying around kind of like when you do your collage sessions. i rarely invite people to my home anymore, but still, i'm always hyper aware that my writings have often got in the wrong hands so be careful what i put on paper 😞
I'm 100% with you on this concern. I too have had my mother, a boyfriend and a daughter read my journals and none of them ended well. I even worry about people reading them when I die, because my journals are where I spew everything out. It's not intended to be objective truth, or to be kind if I'm having an issue with someone, or to be the whole truth of anything. It's just where I vent, process, and do stream of consciousness. So nowadays I do my journalling on Penzu, an online journal that is password locked and I feel totally safe to write whatever I want, secure in the knowledge that no-one is seeing it, ever.
@marianav9655 I'm so sorry this happened to you. It happened to me too, and my mum was so brazen about it, like she didn't think she did anything wrong. She expected me to comfort her because what she read in the journal upset her. 🥴😵 I do address this issue in my other journalling video, 'Write about Your Life.' I hope you feel you can take the power back into your hands and keep a journal if you would like to. X
@@kelly-annmaddoxOMG TYSM 4 sharing Miss Kelly ur a genius I've been worried that I'm not journaling enough in my one stop journal or diary or whatever people feel like calling it my thoughts magic life hacks metaphysical life hacks paranormal life hacks intentions my feelings when im happy sad scared worried tired angry at something like for instance when im p@#$*d off at people who were in my ex so called family members and primary and secondary school peers who all a*@##d me from babyhood to adulthood in ways I'd rather not say but I digress point being they stole my innocence and when I'm sad for instance when im missing my maternal grandparents who were more of a Daddy Mommy to me than my biological parents ever where and they were my besties in life bffl and of course I write to my shadow self and inner child ❤🦋🐞🦭🐠🐳🐬🦦🦉🍀☘️🥰🩷💜💌💟🧜🧚🌹💐🪻🌻🪷🌺🌲☃️❄️🪺🐇🐰🦄🐚🪽🦔🐦🐦⬛🪶🦇🌞🌚🌛🌝🌜⭐🌟✨🔥🏜️🌪️🌬️💧❤️😊👻
Sometimes, you have to know the pit you're in so you can escape. Explore where you are. Journal about it. Describe it down to the wallpaper. Then....look up! Where is the sky? Do you want to fly? It doesn't matter really...sometimes we crawl out of the darkness. Breathe. Keep going. ❤
In regards to concept: something that I've been doing lately, as a black non-binary homosexual man is reading this particular book that is an anthology of a bunch of black gay men speaking about their experiences in a series of poems, essays, narratives, and memoirs. As I read this book, I "reply" with my experience and that has been helpful with bringing up memories that I suppressed as well as helping me understand some of the root causes of my problems in regards to race and sexuality. I plan to keep doing this, along with artistic entries where I kind of let my unconscious speak.
'you make me happier than a bird with a French fry' is my new favourite way to compliment people. Loved this! I'm doing a bit of a tarot journal/general journal overhaul at the moment, perfect timing
i bought a box of notebooks in my fav colour for journalling - not a ton of pages for each journal, so not too daunting, not too much cash spent - bulk buy that! appeals to both my thrifty side and my writer self
Also, thank you for the inspiration to reconnect with journaling. It really is an invaluable addition to daily practice. Okay brb, about to braindump this shit.
I love everything you teach. I'm so fortunate to have found your channel. This was just what I needed to get my a** back in gear. Thank you Kelly-Ann🙏🏻
I don't know if you read this comment kelly-ann but i just wanted to say, from all of the people that create some type of content (including music, books etc) you are one of the people who have most influenced me and I am so greatful for that. I started watching your videos when I was 19 and in a really dark place in my life, I am 28 now and still watch pretty much all your videos. Thank you for accompanying me on my mental health journal as well as on my spiritual path, you have honestly changed my life and I thought you might like to know that. I'm sure lots of people have told you this, but i just wanted to remind you how much of a positive impact you have on people ❤️❤️❤️
7:14 This is such a huge issue for me, and it gets worse when I don't have time to journal. There was a quote one of my teachers in college had printed out on her office door, "I write so I know what I think." or something very similar. (its been about 14 years since I saw it last). But it made a huge impact. Journaling for me is the one place where I can be unapologetically myself and work through even the worst parts of myself. Its where I take all the nasty, happy, wild, insecure bits of myself and put them down so I can address them, embrace them, or dig out why they exist. It also helps me remember my boundaries and why I have them because it is so easy to fall into old habits. Especially when it comes to family dynamics. As a parent it has helped me come to terms with the burgeoning personhood of my children. The reflective questions that naturally occur in my journal have helped me so much.
Adore your channel! I recently moved across country in the US and hit a local book store in my nearest cute book boutique and there was your book! I listened to your channel on my cross country drive and just appreciate you and your wonderful work! Gonna dig into your fantastic book and start journaling again too! Thank you and blessings to you!
Love this topic! Journalling is honestly my most long standing and most versatile self care tool and I'm always interested to hear thoughts and tips from someone else who loves it as much as I do! 🥰
I typically listen to you while beetling around the house, gardening and tune in from my phone. But my phone died so I have you on while I cook on my laptop and I glanced over at this big screen and.....is that a Dave Grohl patron saint candle?! 😆😍 Also - I'm sharing this vid with my women's circle. Perfectly thorough and concise. Always wonderful. Thanks Kelly-Ann!
I was betrayed at age six just when I was learning to write, from an evil person reading my journal without permission. Iv struggled ever since in seeing my journal as a safe place. I start and stop for fear of betrayal and my journal to potentially be used against me. It's hard for me to be brutally honest with my journal in a world where others could put one away for their feelings and thoughts.
@irisiperle3369 So many people have been through this and it SUCKS, it makes me so angry. 😠 How dare people violate someone's head space like that?! Who do they think they are? I'm so sorry that happened to you. Locked journals are great, or locked documents on your computer drive, if you want to try again. That a-hole shouldn't be allowed to win. I know it's hard, darling, but if you want to journal you should be able to. ❤️❤️🩹🫂
Lots of amazing ideas here. I love the idea of reviewing journals and even dedicating journals to specific areas of my life that I'm focusing on. One thing that I like to mention though is that sometimes journaling causes me to become very obsessive and start ruminating more. In those cases, focusing on thoughts is counter-productive. What works best during those times is usually writing down 5 feelings or sensations and then doing dance meditation or some other somatic practice....but that's just if someone tends to ruminate more. Otherwise, I agree with everything and love all these ideas to make journaling more helpful. I guess my point is just that it's important to remember that sometimes it can make things worse rather than better....especially with rage type of journal entries. Love your video as always and love that I feel safe to contribute my authentic thoughts here.
I've found that journaling physically works best for me, it feels incredibly therapeutic, really helps me process things. Only big problem is... I write down digital notes first so I don't forget them, then sometimes it takes me a really long time before I end up actually getting them written pen to paper. And for some reason the act of writing them pen to paper feels much more effective mentally than digital does. Just about wrapping up reading Rebel Witch now and it's incredibly helpful and freeing! I feel that reading any other book on spirituality/religion now will be much more interesting too with my now much more open perspective thanks to your work. Deconditioning helps so much! 😁
Here’s one. I’ve actually contemplated. What happens to your journals when you are no longer here which inevitably happens. I am thinking of willing them to my niece who’s in her early thirties and sees me as kind of a spiritual/ feminine mentor and perhaps then having them gift them later on to my daughter. I’m still working it out in my head.
They can be a great tool for learning more about you but can also be tossed as a form of respect for your inner world and privacy. For myself I could even imagine being buried with them.
If you are in the UK, Dr Irving Finkel keeps a public archive of ordinary people's journals in the UK Diary Project. Anyone can donate journals for posterity, they don't have to be destroyed if you want them to live on.
Since 2017, I've been journaling almost daily in an A6 journal. I got into fountain pens recently and was looking for better paper for my journals and tried out an A5, I hate it! It's too big! I pretty much stopped writing 😭😭😭
@ladyamalthea85 Ahhh we do need to give ourselves permission to realise we made a wrong turn and go back to what works. ❤️ Props for branching out. But A6 is obviously your true love. 🥰
@@krissysmyth3357 I definitely have a video planned on aphantasia. 😍🤩 Is there a specific question/focus you'd like for a video about self-compassion? I think my self-loving witch vids might cover it 🤔
@ that’s great to hear about aphantasia, so many practices are visualisation based and it would be great to get some help with that. I guess sometimes I struggle with self love/compassion, almost like they are separate but I guess to a point they are the same 🤔. I suppose what piqued my interest was when you talked about money and that’s my shadow work boss too and I am working on it at the minute and I feel like I can contextualise and rationalise but it’s almost like it needs to be an energetic shift to in me forgiving myself. Maybe you covered it well already and I’m lost in the rabbit hole with searching for self compassion.
The way I tapped the notification when it popped up on my phone 🥰🙏 and it's a video that is directly related to what I'm trying to focus on for this season 📝
This might be a little controversial but I‘ve come to really enjoy using a free AI „therapist“ tool to help me with my journaling. Don‘t get me wrong, I DON‘T think that an AI „therapist“ could replace actual therapy, but I find it helpful for journaling specifically because I can bounce ideas off it, I can for example start with „yesterday I felt really embarrassed about xyz“ and it will ask me follow up questions to reflect deeper about the issue and I‘ve had so many really eye-opening realizations that way.
When you become a Poptart do you gain access to all previous videos, streams and whatnot posted before you joined? Or is a lot of it only accessible if you were there when it was posted? Like I remember on Instagram you had a thingy to buy tickets for talking about Chaos Magick recently and stuff like that, will those be accessible on the Patreon? Perhaps with an extra charge. I've just never used Patreon before, and hoping I can catch up on a lot of the stuff I missed. 😅 I just have to wait until we're a bit more financially stable since we're between jobs at the moment due to moving. But I really want to become a Poptart and support you!
I've only seen a couple minutes and it's been a ride already. a 40 minutes long video about journaling? yes please!! then I noticed your earings and was amazed by them, as always, but then... OMFG Hedwig and the angry inch!!!! 🤩😭
This was really deep. So much deeper than I had inticipated. So much good medicine. I did journal as a teenager in the 80s. I reviewed just a few years later in my early 20s and because of the radical change I had experienced, judged my younger self and destroyed the journals. At the time it felt revolutionary. Now, it just makes me sad. At the same time, I want to honor all parts of me - the parts who are so embarrased and ashamed, the parts who are smug, the parts who feel worthless, the parts that feel superior, etc. To honor those parts means to me that we can still argue with ourselves. I don't want to forget that I can be self-righteous, and be correct about an analysis. I am human. I will fuck up. I will be wonderful. I will change other people for the better, some people will experience me as their bully. These things can all be true. I can see this in me but seeing it in others is harder because I hold them to a different standard, often.
Destroying my journals from when I was about ten years old through seventeen or eighteen is one of my biggest regrets because I would love to share that part of my journey with my kids, show them that it really does get better as life goes on. And I want to revisit that part of myself to see how far I have come since then. Not to mention I used to keep a list of current events and i t would be interesting to see the world change from 2000-2024 through the eyes of the child experiencing it.
I cannot believe I haven't been journalling until now! It is so rewarding, healing and most of all satisfying. It's really amazing. And I in fact do already do most of the things you are suggesting, just instinctively. I've been journalling regularly for about a year now and I don't think I'll ever stop. So far I use just one journal for everything. ✨📑📒
Great pointers and guidance here, thank you! 🌹Btw, do you really journal write in the bath? Ive written under trees, in cafes, restaurants, on buses, in tents, in bed and many other places, but never in the bath! I’ve been keeping journals for 47 years. It has been an invaluable source of guidance, support, encouragement and catharsis. One thing I didn’t start doing until the last 10 - 12 years is make an index at the end of each volume. It is simple to do and really helps in finding significant themes when I look back a year or several years later.
I found that writing quotes that you find inspiring or just TV ou movies quotes that have an impact on you, in an art therapy format (like all the page ou a double page even with colors and all you fancy) is very freeing. Also, it helps when you read back.
Also, mixing words and art to view your problem with a complete diffrent angle or access emotions. 🖌
Your tips are all so great, I love the way you constantly keep hold of the "you can do whatever works for you, there are no journal police" message and at the same time fill in the candy dish with so many great ideas for people to grab onto to get started. One of the things I do in my life is teach art with and for at risk teens at an alternate school program and just being given a wide open "use your imagination, do whatever you want" can be the opposite of helpful. You get it, and we all benefit!
Thank you so much for this comment and for the amazing work you do with those kids. People like you keep the world turning. ❤
Writing is a physical manifestation of thought, from 1-10, it is one of the easiest and often the most powerful of all magical techniques. Write your own narrative otherwise someone else will write it for you! Great content Kelly as always 🙏😊
something that holds me back from writing freely is that i've had several experiences where people have read through my journals. growing up at home, in school, partners i've lived with, partners who have been in my room while i'm in the kitchen, friends who have stayed over. the overstepping of boundaries quickly eroded those relationships, but it's left me with a hyper-awareness every time i'm writing something i wouldn't want anyone to read.
and sure, i could try to keep it under lock and key but the thing is i have like 7 journals and i like to have them at hand because i never know when the urge to write will kick in. and once i pop one open, there's no telling when i'll be done. i'll have all sorts of notebooks papers laying around kind of like when you do your collage sessions.
i rarely invite people to my home anymore, but still, i'm always hyper aware that my writings have often got in the wrong hands so be careful what i put on paper 😞
I'm 100% with you on this concern. I too have had my mother, a boyfriend and a daughter read my journals and none of them ended well. I even worry about people reading them when I die, because my journals are where I spew everything out. It's not intended to be objective truth, or to be kind if I'm having an issue with someone, or to be the whole truth of anything. It's just where I vent, process, and do stream of consciousness. So nowadays I do my journalling on Penzu, an online journal that is password locked and I feel totally safe to write whatever I want, secure in the knowledge that no-one is seeing it, ever.
@marianav9655 I'm so sorry this happened to you. It happened to me too, and my mum was so brazen about it, like she didn't think she did anything wrong. She expected me to comfort her because what she read in the journal upset her. 🥴😵 I do address this issue in my other journalling video, 'Write about Your Life.' I hope you feel you can take the power back into your hands and keep a journal if you would like to. X
@@kelly-annmaddoxOMG TYSM 4 sharing Miss Kelly ur a genius I've been worried that I'm not journaling enough in my one stop journal or diary or whatever people feel like calling it my thoughts magic life hacks metaphysical life hacks paranormal life hacks intentions my feelings when im happy sad scared worried tired angry at something like for instance when im p@#$*d off at people who were in my ex so called family members and
primary and secondary school peers who all a*@##d me from babyhood to adulthood in ways I'd rather not say but I digress point being they stole my innocence and when I'm sad for instance when im missing my maternal grandparents who were more of a Daddy Mommy to me than my biological parents ever where and they were my besties in life bffl and of course I write to my shadow self and inner child ❤🦋🐞🦭🐠🐳🐬🦦🦉🍀☘️🥰🩷💜💌💟🧜🧚🌹💐🪻🌻🪷🌺🌲☃️❄️🪺🐇🐰🦄🐚🪽🦔🐦🐦⬛🪶🦇🌞🌚🌛🌝🌜⭐🌟✨🔥🏜️🌪️🌬️💧❤️😊👻
Sometimes, you have to know the pit you're in so you can escape. Explore where you are. Journal about it. Describe it down to the wallpaper. Then....look up! Where is the sky? Do you want to fly? It doesn't matter really...sometimes we crawl out of the darkness. Breathe. Keep going. ❤
"Happier than a bird with a french fry" love it
In regards to concept: something that I've been doing lately, as a black non-binary homosexual man is reading this particular book that is an anthology of a bunch of black gay men speaking about their experiences in a series of poems, essays, narratives, and memoirs. As I read this book, I "reply" with my experience and that has been helpful with bringing up memories that I suppressed as well as helping me understand some of the root causes of my problems in regards to race and sexuality. I plan to keep doing this, along with artistic entries where I kind of let my unconscious speak.
I love titling my journal entries! Makes it so easy to refer back to them. Highly recommend
Journaling is for my mind and my soul what jogging is for my body, I can not go very far with out it!😊
'you make me happier than a bird with a French fry' is my new favourite way to compliment people. Loved this! I'm doing a bit of a tarot journal/general journal overhaul at the moment, perfect timing
i bought a box of notebooks in my fav colour for journalling - not a ton of pages for each journal, so not too daunting, not too much cash spent - bulk buy that! appeals to both my thrifty side and my writer self
Ugghhh! Vespertine is literally one of the best albums ever created!
Also, thank you for the inspiration to reconnect with journaling. It really is an invaluable addition to daily practice. Okay brb, about to braindump this shit.
I love everything you teach. I'm so fortunate to have found your channel. This was just what I needed to get my a** back in gear. Thank you Kelly-Ann🙏🏻
Thank you Kelly-Ann for this much needed video💙 This for me could literally be life saving 💙 I love you and your witty creative humor 💜💙💚
I don't know if you read this comment kelly-ann but i just wanted to say, from all of the people that create some type of content (including music, books etc) you are one of the people who have most influenced me and I am so greatful for that. I started watching your videos when I was 19 and in a really dark place in my life, I am 28 now and still watch pretty much all your videos. Thank you for accompanying me on my mental health journal as well as on my spiritual path, you have honestly changed my life and I thought you might like to know that. I'm sure lots of people have told you this, but i just wanted to remind you how much of a positive impact you have on people ❤️❤️❤️
🤭🥹 Thank you angel x
The dates (month day year) I log with each journal entry are becoming useful for me to look into astrological transits and cycles!
Exactly!
I *love* this video so much. I've watched it twice already and will be back to re-watch often. Forever grateful for you 🖤
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7:14 This is such a huge issue for me, and it gets worse when I don't have time to journal. There was a quote one of my teachers in college had printed out on her office door, "I write so I know what I think." or something very similar. (its been about 14 years since I saw it last). But it made a huge impact.
Journaling for me is the one place where I can be unapologetically myself and work through even the worst parts of myself. Its where I take all the nasty, happy, wild, insecure bits of myself and put them down so I can address them, embrace them, or dig out why they exist. It also helps me remember my boundaries and why I have them because it is so easy to fall into old habits. Especially when it comes to family dynamics. As a parent it has helped me come to terms with the burgeoning personhood of my children. The reflective questions that naturally occur in my journal have helped me so much.
Librarian here, love your channel 🤓
❤📚🤭
Adore your channel! I recently moved across country in the US and hit a local book store in my nearest cute book boutique and there was your book! I listened to your channel on my cross country drive and just appreciate you and your wonderful work! Gonna dig into your fantastic book and start journaling again too!
Thank you and blessings to you!
Excellent advice on the importance of filing.
I just love your videos, this speaks to my soul on so many levels.
Wow, thank you. I'm so glad you like them. 😋🥲
Love this topic! Journalling is honestly my most long standing and most versatile self care tool and I'm always interested to hear thoughts and tips from someone else who loves it as much as I do! 🥰
Love you Kelly❤
I typically listen to you while beetling around the house, gardening and tune in from my phone. But my phone died so I have you on while I cook on my laptop and I glanced over at this big screen and.....is that a Dave Grohl patron saint candle?! 😆😍 Also - I'm sharing this vid with my women's circle. Perfectly thorough and concise. Always wonderful. Thanks Kelly-Ann!
Not a librarian yet, but I am working on my degree in Library and Information Services. 😊
@nikkihall7994 😍😍😍 Love that. More librarians please. 📚 🙏
Awesomeness 🥰
I was betrayed at age six just when I was learning to write, from an evil person reading my journal without permission. Iv struggled ever since in seeing my journal as a safe place. I start and stop for fear of betrayal and my journal to potentially be used against me. It's hard for me to be brutally honest with my journal in a world where others could put one away for their feelings and thoughts.
@irisiperle3369 So many people have been through this and it SUCKS, it makes me so angry. 😠 How dare people violate someone's head space like that?! Who do they think they are? I'm so sorry that happened to you. Locked journals are great, or locked documents on your computer drive, if you want to try again. That a-hole shouldn't be allowed to win. I know it's hard, darling, but if you want to journal you should be able to. ❤️❤️🩹🫂
Thanks Kelly-Ann
Lots of amazing ideas here. I love the idea of reviewing journals and even dedicating journals to specific areas of my life that I'm focusing on. One thing that I like to mention though is that sometimes journaling causes me to become very obsessive and start ruminating more. In those cases, focusing on thoughts is counter-productive. What works best during those times is usually writing down 5 feelings or sensations and then doing dance meditation or some other somatic practice....but that's just if someone tends to ruminate more. Otherwise, I agree with everything and love all these ideas to make journaling more helpful. I guess my point is just that it's important to remember that sometimes it can make things worse rather than better....especially with rage type of journal entries. Love your video as always and love that I feel safe to contribute my authentic thoughts here.
I've found that journaling physically works best for me, it feels incredibly therapeutic, really helps me process things.
Only big problem is... I write down digital notes first so I don't forget them, then sometimes it takes me a really long time before I end up actually getting them written pen to paper. And for some reason the act of writing them pen to paper feels much more effective mentally than digital does.
Just about wrapping up reading Rebel Witch now and it's incredibly helpful and freeing! I feel that reading any other book on spirituality/religion now will be much more interesting too with my now much more open perspective thanks to your work.
Deconditioning helps so much! 😁
soo helpful ❤
34:31 THIS! 💯
Journalling is cringe-proof.
Thank you. Kelly-Ann. I’ve come a lone way
You got this! 🥰
Here’s one. I’ve actually contemplated. What happens to your journals when you are no longer here which inevitably happens. I am thinking of willing them to my niece who’s in her early thirties and sees me as kind of a spiritual/ feminine mentor and perhaps then having them gift them later on to my daughter. I’m still working it out in my head.
They can be a great tool for learning more about you but can also be tossed as a form of respect for your inner world and privacy. For myself I could even imagine being buried with them.
If you are in the UK, Dr Irving Finkel keeps a public archive of ordinary people's journals in the UK Diary Project. Anyone can donate journals for posterity, they don't have to be destroyed if you want them to live on.
Do you think about writing a book about journaling? It would be marvelous! We need it. Please write that book.
Since 2017, I've been journaling almost daily in an A6 journal. I got into fountain pens recently and was looking for better paper for my journals and tried out an A5, I hate it! It's too big! I pretty much stopped writing 😭😭😭
@ladyamalthea85 Ahhh we do need to give ourselves permission to realise we made a wrong turn and go back to what works. ❤️ Props for branching out. But A6 is obviously your true love. 🥰
Can you do videos on aphantasia and witchcraft and also practises for self compassion
@@krissysmyth3357 I definitely have a video planned on aphantasia. 😍🤩 Is there a specific question/focus you'd like for a video about self-compassion? I think my self-loving witch vids might cover it 🤔
@ that’s great to hear about aphantasia, so many practices are visualisation based and it would be great to get some help with that. I guess sometimes I struggle with self love/compassion, almost like they are separate but I guess to a point they are the same 🤔. I suppose what piqued my interest was when you talked about money and that’s my shadow work boss too and I am working on it at the minute and I feel like I can contextualise and rationalise but it’s almost like it needs to be an energetic shift to in me forgiving myself. Maybe you covered it well already and I’m lost in the rabbit hole with searching for self compassion.
The way I tapped the notification when it popped up on my phone 🥰🙏 and it's a video that is directly related to what I'm trying to focus on for this season 📝
Niiiice! I'm so pleased it's THAT relevant to you! Hope you enjoy!
@@kelly-annmaddox I love the writing prompts you share and they always inspire me to dig deeper!
I love this video 😍
This might be a little controversial but I‘ve come to really enjoy using a free AI „therapist“ tool to help me with my journaling. Don‘t get me wrong, I DON‘T think that an AI „therapist“ could replace actual therapy, but I find it helpful for journaling specifically because I can bounce ideas off it, I can for example start with „yesterday I felt really embarrassed about xyz“ and it will ask me follow up questions to reflect deeper about the issue and I‘ve had so many really eye-opening realizations that way.
This sounds an interesting idea to explore. Is there a particular tool/app you use/recommend?
vespertine is literally the sexiest album of all time
Let the church say Amen 🙏
When you become a Poptart do you gain access to all previous videos, streams and whatnot posted before you joined? Or is a lot of it only accessible if you were there when it was posted?
Like I remember on Instagram you had a thingy to buy tickets for talking about Chaos Magick recently and stuff like that, will those be accessible on the Patreon? Perhaps with an extra charge.
I've just never used Patreon before, and hoping I can catch up on a lot of the stuff I missed. 😅
I just have to wait until we're a bit more financially stable since we're between jobs at the moment due to moving. But I really want to become a Poptart and support you!
I've only seen a couple minutes and it's been a ride already. a 40 minutes long video about journaling? yes please!! then I noticed your earings and was amazed by them, as always, but then... OMFG Hedwig and the angry inch!!!! 🤩😭
🥰😍 Thank you! I made the earrings myself. ✨️ LOVE Hedwig.
@@kelly-annmaddox love them both, the earings and the t shirt 😻
This was really deep. So much deeper than I had inticipated. So much good medicine. I did journal as a teenager in the 80s. I reviewed just a few years later in my early 20s and because of the radical change I had experienced, judged my younger self and destroyed the journals. At the time it felt revolutionary. Now, it just makes me sad. At the same time, I want to honor all parts of me - the parts who are so embarrased and ashamed, the parts who are smug, the parts who feel worthless, the parts that feel superior, etc. To honor those parts means to me that we can still argue with ourselves. I don't want to forget that I can be self-righteous, and be correct about an analysis. I am human. I will fuck up. I will be wonderful. I will change other people for the better, some people will experience me as their bully. These things can all be true. I can see this in me but seeing it in others is harder because I hold them to a different standard, often.
Destroying my journals from when I was about ten years old through seventeen or eighteen is one of my biggest regrets because I would love to share that part of my journey with my kids, show them that it really does get better as life goes on. And I want to revisit that part of myself to see how far I have come since then. Not to mention I used to keep a list of current events and i t would be interesting to see the world change from 2000-2024 through the eyes of the child experiencing it.
You stay away too long! I missed you.
Aww that's so lovely, thank you! ❤ I was away recording my audiobook. 😊 More TH-cam shenanigans coming soon now I'm back home. X
I cannot believe I haven't been journalling until now! It is so rewarding, healing and most of all satisfying. It's really amazing. And I in fact do already do most of the things you are suggesting, just instinctively. I've been journalling regularly for about a year now and I don't think I'll ever stop. So far I use just one journal for everything. ✨📑📒
@@anayrre2062 Sweet! I am so pleased you're finding it nourishing. I would completely lose sanity without it. 😅
Great pointers and guidance here, thank you! 🌹Btw, do you really journal write in the bath? Ive written under trees, in cafes, restaurants, on buses, in tents, in bed and many other places, but never in the bath! I’ve been keeping journals for 47 years. It has been an invaluable source of guidance, support, encouragement and catharsis. One thing I didn’t start doing until the last 10 - 12 years is make an index at the end of each volume. It is simple to do and really helps in finding significant themes when I look back a year or several years later.
Ooh l love that you make an index. I think I'm too lazy. 😂 Yes I do journal in the bath. Get a bath caddy if you wanna try it. 🛁 ✍️