Wendy... Your videos bring me so much peace. Two weeks ago I was very depressed and happened to watch one that helped me through tremendously!! After watching, the depression lifted. I appreciate you so much and thank you for being you ❤️
Learning to be less self-critical and limiting in my journals-making them less about “art” and more about “soul”-more about “doing it” and less about “over thinking” about it! You are a jewel of life and joy! Thank you!
Wendy, This journal process feels deeply healing. I hope to dive in sometime soon. Thank you for your kind and gentle ways and generous soulful sharing. You are a beautiful human being. You give me hope.
I went to the thrift store, honestly, I think the hardback books on the table were sited for the landfill, they were priced 10¢ ea. So, I said for that price no guilt. I found an very outdated college engineering math text, some such thing. Cut out some pages, painted some just whatever. Learning my way through. All that being said, I encourage you go for it. Find a book thrifting or yardsale such thing even if its markers, coloured pencils, the comic strip from the news paper. Just give yourself permission to play.
I so look forward to these every week. You have been a bright light throughout this last year - and yes, I did binge all the previous videos to be certain I didn't miss a thing!! You honesty and open heart adds warmness and joy to this world. Thanks to you for sharing yourself and fostering gratitude. XO
Thank you Wendy, for sharing your creative journey with us. For being so brave and open about your art and your feelings. I am a mom of two boys and teach art to three to fourteen year olds in Vermont. It has been a rough few years. Your videos and beautiful artwork help ground me and inspire me to better live my truth. I really can’t thank you enough.
Ohhhhhh, thank you for being my 'calm'. I am so happy I discovered you last year when I was feeling very disheartened, you are an absolute breath of fresh air, so creative and honest, I feel like you have been in my life forever!! Look forward to your wonderful videos every week. xx
I have been having the worst anxiety ever and I believe I have never had it before the entire experience we have been having in the last few years. I made a list of things that I feel contribute to the feeling of being trapped and I am thankful to say it has been working. 🤗🙏🏻🧘🏻♀️
Hi take a look at Therapy in a nutshell on you tube Its well worth a look Its about anxiety I have improved by watching this it explains how anxiety works and how to relieve it Hope you have a good day Best wishes Lynda
@@dillahcurl9308 restrictions were tough. I was quite grateful to have friends round the world. It helped so much. Multiple ways. Timezones anxiety sleep brokenness, there was pretty well always someone somewhere to write. Also, seemed so many places were so much more restricted that made peace come. Still work dropping by 60-70% made things rough. We all are reconfiguring our lives. So grateful Wendy and all are here.
You’ve inspired me to get those tree oracle cards! I plan to journal with them , waiting for them to arrive in the mail. Can’t wait to get started! Thanks for sharing with us, I always feel a bit better about life after I finish one of your videos. 💕😘🙏
As a Miami girl, I love limes! The taste, the color, the squeeze. I'm in New England (lived here now for many years) anxiously awaiting the spring! Cleaning, straightening, freshening everything in the house. Tomorrow a friend and I are going out to clean my art studio to get it ready for the next few seasons ( I close it and turn off the heat in late fall and winter). Like you, looking forward to the unfolding of everything, the studio, the green grass, the open windows, eating outside! Thank you for telling your van life story and sharing your process and life, Wendy. Best to you and James.
Been dealing with something kind of heavy, which has me in a pretty dark place. You have helped a lot! A) By lifting my spirit and mood...B) Pointing me in a direction of light and a plan of resolve. Thanks and Hugs Wendy!!! ❤️
Thank you so much for another inspiring video. Linden trees are wonderful, we have a couple, another awesome fact about them is you can pick the young /new leaves and they make a delicious and very affordable salad. We do this every year. The flowers are really good as herbal tea before bed time ! Love that you’re feeling so positive. Sending lots of love and linden tree vibes !
"You have your happy place with you, everywhere you go." - Wendy Thank you for reminding us of this. Every day is a gift, to enjoy, an opportunity to seek our happy place. Blessings to you and James, and big squishy hugs.
Thank you for acknowledging the collective PTSD. As "events" continue to unravel & going forward in general, discernment & staying present is key. Much love to you Wendy 💜
Dear Wendy, I've watched your mood change. I truly enjoy your channel. I've been binge watching you and James ( truly adorable couple). Take care and see you in the next one. Sending love and big hugs Sherry
I love your channel, thank you. This video is excellent as I have been sharing with my clients (as an astrologer, healing from past trauma with it and other practices) I encourage everyone to journal and you sharing sounds like the messages I have shared for a long, long time. Journaling, creative writing, and creation and gratitude are so healing! Thanks so much! I am sure I'll share this video with many it is so good. I've been journaling since age 14 (not always consistent, but definitely have kept at it). And scrapbooking photos too.
This is so helpful, I have been stuck with my journaling , and this will be a lovely thing to do. Regarding the PTSD, I totally agree with you.I have the same tree cards, so I’ll dig them out :)
I love your Journaling tips. I have not journaled in a long time. I am rather new to the process. I really have a lot to learn. Thank you for all your time in preparing these videos. I look forward to them every week. I am retired and they are very refreshing. It has been one year of my mom's passing. I struggle more with this than I realize. So you would think I would channel all of this grief in my journal. I will really try pulling it out into my journal. Thank you again for being you. 💜💜💜
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and encouragement. I’m in my 70’s and I thank you for keeping me company and for being such a bright light. It’s so much fun to spend time with you and I appreciate you and the work you do to make it possible. Love from my mountain top in middle Tennessee, where the hilltops kiss 💋 the sky ☀️, Fran
I got that book ‘The pleasure trap’ after you mentioned it, and I’m really enjoying it, I also got the box of letter stamps after seeing you get them, I’m not somebody easily lead into buying stuff but they both appealed to me, so thanks 🙏
I've known for awhile that things were going to change, but not how or what. I've been praying for direction. Tonight I've had 3 people at different times tell me I need to write. All I could think at the time was you saying to write "I don't know what to write." That is actually how I found you, I asked TH-cam how to write in a journal and you came up, about 2 years ago. Sigh....I don't know what to write. Thank you for listening.
Thanks to you I restarted journalling and making albums again; I love paper, designs and using paints crayons mixed all together 🥰 this week I doug up all my paper designs an brought them to my studio; made me so happy ; bought two collors of craftpaper for mij albums ( 2x500 A3🙈😂) for the best price And I am so grateful for my husband for sponsoring me 🥰🥰🥰
Good morning and thank you! One pic can hold a hundred memories; the balance being in how we choose to see it. And as you said, with gratitude (is beautiful)! I listened this week to Thich Nhat Hanh’s book ‘Peace in every Step’ (RIP) It was beautifully aligned with nature! Again thank you… Stay blessed! ✌️🦚🐝
I'm so grateful to you and the others I follow on utube for your thoughts. I had never kept a journal before finding your videos and it has been a way of working thru issues and remembering to be grateful. TY.
Thanks so much Wendy- in fact can’t find adequate words to thank you! A ‘stalled’ artist, that’s me, and been depressed, but bingeing on your art journal stuff the last week or so. I have all my ‘best’ paintings from my early teens still. Was a difficult time. Inspired by you this last weekend to get them out, find a way of binding them together (with some blank leaves as well) and start an art journal that’s a conversation between my 65-yr-old self (yes - it matters even more now!) and that really lonely teenager. Enough pages that I can be doing this for a few months - and the paintings (just teenage art) are not sitting in a dusty folder now. I needed to have this conversation - you opened the way! Might move on to my twenties afterwards!
Thank you for giving me permission to just be 🌸 sitting doing my art journaling is fantastic for my well-being but we are conditioned to believe we should be on the go all the time! Bless you Wendy 💓
Beautiful idea to utilize copies of photographs for your journal. Love the creativity Wendy and that you share with your followers. I made a promise to myself that I would do my best without judgement to have a daily gratitude journal. With no expectations other than I knew I would need assistance to help me along my journey.So for Christmas I bought myself 'Power Thought Cards - Louisa Hay' and 'The Spirit Animal Oracle - Colette Baron-Reid'. How I fell in ♥ with theses cards the Louisa Hay are positive affirmations , colorful and whimsical drawings by 5 different female artists. I shuffled that deck once on Jan 1st (and never again), each morning I do a little writing on how I feel, some gratitude of the simplest things, sometimes things come up that needs healing; then select the top card; I'm amazed how that card of the day can resonate to my writing. I always write out the affirmation in my journal and may or may not write more. And for Colette Baron-Reid cards oh my, what a beautiful magical deck have a wonderful time using them and learning from them. What has been great is that sometimes I do a sketching too, best of all I'm having fun, it's very therapeutic (for me) and I've kept up with it everyday. Grateful I am on this journey, enough Barbara Babble 😉 ode to the Wendy Waffle ♥have a wonderful week!
Thank you Wendy! Finding balance as an artist and human is so important. I have documented others process as a teacher and journaled re: my process, but your process of putting your own growth on the schedule is truly mind elevating. I am grateful for your heart-spirit.😊
You’ve given me a great ideas for my journal. I’m just moving selling my home and this was the last home with my husband before his passing, I definitely with will tell a story. Thank you I will make it a gratitude ❤️
Cheers Wendy from Canada ! I love your inspiring videos and I so connect with you on every level, emotionally. Great ideas to do in my journals. It is so soothing, ,Journaling, my art, it's medicine for my soul!! I am getting a little art studio in 2 months ! I am so excited...it will be my peaceful haven.❤ God Bless you and thankyou.
Dear Wendy, I loved the idea of the photos in my art journal, as I do find very comforting to see old photos of me and my family. I have many of them displayed in my house and I love to look at them, remember my family members who are not with me here anymore and remember how much my childhood was happy. And many times that is very helpful when I am feeling down or sad or depressed. So why not use them in my art journal? I don’t struggle with what to write, because I always have many things to say 😊, both to me and to others😊. But an art journal is more than words and that’s why I loved your idea. I struggle more with images, what to draw or paint or collage, than with words, as you may have already noticed😊. I love your gratitude post on instagram. I never had that habit and I find it very healthy to my mind, very freeing and very rewarding. It seems like I forget the bad things and retain only the good ones, when commenting in your gratitude post. So thank for that. Also thank you for keeping me company. Although we never met, I consider you now my virtual friend that visits me once a week and sometimes on instagram, and that, although struggling with the bad days, always has a motivation word for me. Your videos are a nice and friendly visit. See you soon.💙💜🧡♥️💚💛❤️
Haven't been able to watch & missed it. Thanks for these lovely reminders & tips! Wow looking at those photos reminded me of your videos at that time. Thanks for always sharing your journey & all with us 😊
Good Morning...We had a 'little-leaf Linden" tree in our back yard here in Michigan (US). We didn't call it a lime tree, because it didn't bear fruit, however, I became very sensitive to the pollen. But, it was a beautiful specimen. I love these segments on trees. I think I'll go out and hug one. xx
A gratitude journal in these turbulent times seems a wonderful thing to do at the moment! With all this chaos going on your small corner of the internet is a haven and will help so many! Keep shining bright Wendy x
Since I started journalling my life has got so much better, yes have off days but that’s just normal. My journal is like my personal therapist - I love this quote from Anne Franks Diary - “Paper is more patient than people” very true! Love your idea with the photos x
Thank you 😊 I’m so glad I found your channel. I have been gradually watching all your videos. This episode has inspired me to dig out my old art products and to put ink, paint and pens to an art journal - just for me and making the time to get into the ‘creative zone’. Sending thanks and love from Tasmania, Australia 😊💛
Thank you so much for your honesty and authenticity, I have been enjoying these videos since the first lockdown and I'm so pleased I did. You're inspiration is infectious and inspires me every week in so many ways. I have recently had a blip a bit of a burn out and I am taking time with my cards to give that inner child the hug she needs. I love the Idea of printing some photos and journaling with them. Feeling excited about having a go myself thanks again have a great week 🙏
Oh how I can relate to enjoying ‘The Holiday’ movie. I usually watch it at Christmas but didn’t have a chance to revisit until a few weeks ago. Prompted by the relationship between Iris and Jasper, it actually resulted in a long overdue realisation and helped me with making a ‘necessary for my health and well being’ work/teaching related change this year. Such a sudden light bulb moment even though I’ve seen the movie many times before. Thankyou for the inspiration to use more real life photos as journal prompts. I have so many photos and so many letters and diaries yet don’t nearly often enough combine them :)
Just recently found you!! So GRATEFUL for that. I have a practice of gratitude writing every night at bedtime - even for things that I want but have not manifested yet, but surely will if I keep at it. It’s pure magic - the Law of Attraction. Thank you for your lovely self🙏
I did all the artist way books for several years the journaling saved me. It is the writing I think that helped . Learning helps . This is so good. Love this .
Beautiful Wendy....thank you so much for your continued presence and generosity. I subscribed way back when you were only just getting to 1000 followers....and you kept me company for all of the lockdown times, keeping my spirits up and inspiring me to keep creating. Then I drifted away from just about everything 'social' on the internet, finding I really, really needed some quiet and solitude for a while. The world had just got too loud for me. I'm so glad to have found my way back to you and am looking forward to catching up on all that I've missed. Blessings to you and James and again, thank you for being such a bright light in this mad, mad world. xo
Thank you for keeping me company for sooo long Melanie xxx It's lovely to see you again! xxxx Mad mad world, yes, completely understand you stepping away for some peace... xxxxx much love
I would like to thank you. Listening to your insights is like meditative guidance to me... where I simultaneously enjoy your company and journal and draw myself. So it's almost like dancing on this fine line between having a companion and self-exploratory freedom of expression. There's deep richness in your modesty and adjacency...
I'm reading "The artist's way" too, I'm on the first week :) I love your style to journal, I definitely wanna try it, even though just writing works for me
I just realized that you are a left handed. Yeah to us lefties! Thank you as always for a relaxing and inspiring video. You’ve helped me move back into my drawing and painting.
I love your podcasts but I must say, this one was one of my favorites! I could feel myself relax throughout the video just watching you journal and explain everything you were doing and why you were doing it. I am a true believer in being grateful, and I try to journal at least 5 things each day that I am grateful for . I have never used pictures like you have here, but i definitely will after watching. Thank you for being so open and vulnerable in your videos! It truly helps when you share your feelings, it helps to see that we are not alone in our feelings post lockdown,. Watching your podcasts and learning your great journaling tips, is one thing I am grateful for today!! Thank you Wendy!!
This was so lovely and therapeutic to watch, and you've given me an idea of how I can grasp how these two years have impacted me as well. I've been feeling all discombobulated for a while now, anxious about things going back to "normal", whatever that is! Now you've shown me a way to get a look at my situation, give it a real ponder, and maybe accept where we've all been, and where we find ourselves now! Thank you, Wendy!💛
I love the idea of personal photos in a journal; especially when you copy them so you can write on them, adorn them, or shape them any way you want. I also love the way you painted two of your journal pages. I would love to know the type of paint you used. I have tried this numerous times in the past, but the pages always seem to warp a bit!
Hello dear Wendy, thank you for always sharing and being so brave to share . like you I love being by the tress to stand behind one when and look up , it like letting all those things go .sending love and hugs 🤗 Teresa xx
I loved this video - it was therapeutic just watching you process through your journal - I feel so privileged to be invited into your space, thank you. We have some beautiful linden trees in our village, and in the summer their scent is intoxicating; it was good to time travel to warmer and longer days and think about that today!
hello dear yes Gratitude for all even when it is ruff as always there are blessings in the Challenges in our life we just have to look for them , yes it is so ok to feel our feelings and Take care of our human self it has been scary times over the last couple years for all of here on the earth. Our strength lays in our heart where we are connected to all and we can get through anything thing and sharing our truths and compassion and empathy for each other is most amazing Thank you for sharing your truths with us and insights you are a blessing and beautiful dear
I'm thankful for you Wendy! This video is like the one that led me to you in the first place in March of 2020. I got sent home to work from the dining room table and life changed! had to learn how to teach on Zoom without the IT department but had the best garden we ever had, and started Art Journaling! Something I hadn't done in 10 years!
What a lovely idea Wendy! And you are so fortunate to have a loving partner to take these beautiful photos of you and your process and feelings during these past couple of crazy years. Living alone with no photographic record of my journey will make this idea impossible ☹ I will visit one of my (close to home) favorite trees💚🌳 tonight and ponder with the huge grand dame and see what other ideas may percolate into possibilities for an art journal.🤔 Thank you for shining your bright light with me today!💫🌞💖🙋♀️ Sending much Aloha across the miles to you dear heart!💫💖🌺💫
Try not to worry and just use what you have. NO need to have ourselves in the pics it's a memory so lots of ways to put that on the page... just simply writing is enough... and thank you too for keeping me company xxxx much Aloha to you too XXxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I feel your heart from this long distance xxx
Thank you Wendy for this video!! Never thought to put photos in my journal!! I'm still dealing with alot of grief from the loss of family members and I think this could help tremendously!!❤ I also love that movie The Holiday and bought copies of it years ago to a few of my female family members!!❤❤❤ Thank you for everything you share and do in these videos!! It helps so much on so many different levels!!!❤❤❤ sending lots of light and warmth your way!!!❤❤❤
I just thought about to begin with life writing, autobiographical writing. But I didn't know how to start. And than... along came this video! Thank you for your inspiration just in the right time again. I will chose some fotos, print, collage and start to write. Have a good sunday ❤️
Dear Wendy, thank you for reminding me that I am supposed to be the leading lady in my own life story! And I love the movie ‘The Holiday’ as well. I have only recently discovered your channel and I now feel like I have met and made a new friend. Thank you for your honesty and creativity. ☺️🌟🌸💕
I know right!!! I love that reminder in the film myself!!! Thank you for keeping me company in the online world of friends here on TH-cam! It's a very special place to me!! A circle of love!!! xxxxx
When you said that you can carry your happy place with you, wherever you go, it reminded me of a poem I read recently by Roger Robinson - A Portable Paradise.
Thank you for this beautiful video Wendy - you have given me much food for thought. I have been thinking about writing recently, after coming across some diaries I wrote as a young teenager. I think journaling with photographs and snippets of words could be very healing 🙏🏻🌻 Much love to you x
I love this idea about using photos in journaling! This gets me going and now I will sift thru my photos online. I can think of so many ways to use them like telling a story, seeing my hairdo changes over a long time (and there were so many, Wendy--haha. Some were absolutely atrocious, and others were a little cute.) My whole life I have wanted looong hair, but have always gone and done it, THAT,--the haircut. Sure I've had it long-er, but never looong, really long. And for me, that's what I am doing. I've got more to go to get to the place I'd like to be, but it's just about past the longest I've ever had it. Not really sure why I have sabotaged my efforts so many times (well, a couple of cuts were due to a bad perm), but somehow I got past the hard parts this time--that not so great in between length and such--maybe it took making a pact with my husband's cousin to let our hair grow, no ifs ands or buts! Both of us have been growing hair for 4 yrs now. I LOVE your hair, Wendy. So long and beautiful (as you are). Don't believe I've met anyone on YT as open and honest and relevant as you are. Just what the doctor ordered😘. It sounds silly to me as I read over what I've written, yet I believe there is some thread there that has been leading me to cut my hair numerous times when I had wanted to grow it longer. I'm going to think on it and try to get to the bottom of it. You've sorted through your last two years or more and it's helped you quite a lot. I will try to do a similar thing using pictures and other memorabilia I tend to save all of my ephemera from events or trips, and so I have items to trigger those memories. Now I'm excited to discover feelings, memories, and people from my pics. Thank you so much for unlocking yet another whole, meaningful way of self discovery and growth. You're positively Lovely my friend. XOXOJANE
I worked on my bullet journal as I watched this, getting March set up. I have surgery coming up, so I now need to go to to creative journal and process that a bit. Who knew you could tear a rotator cuff just by reaching for a headset? Sheesh.
If you can't write then don't worry - I have found that sometimes adding a coloured border or a "feeling" word nicely decorated to start me off - really works well as then there is no blank paper which can freeze alot of people. I have also used newspaper, magazine pages etc to just start me off or not journal that day just decorate the page and explain you couldn't write today (now you're writing lol)
I've never heard of that "selfie" journalling exercise before Wendy - I'm going to give it a whirl.... selfie healing ? perhaps heehee... thanks for helping us all keep our lights shining bright. XXX
When stuck for words to open my journal writing I start with ''I am open to this New Day'' or, '' I thank The Universe for all my Blessings''. I'm usually off like a greyhound then and could go on and on . . . a ''waffle'' . . . hahaha! Thank you for the video.
Wendy - each week’s video is like a tea and chat time with a wise and lovely friend. Thank you for letting us come along on your journey!
Wendy... Your videos bring me so much peace. Two weeks ago I was very depressed and happened to watch one that helped me through tremendously!! After watching, the depression lifted. I appreciate you so much and thank you for being you ❤️
This makes me happy to hear... sorry you having a bumpy time... xxxx much loves xxx
Learning to be less self-critical and limiting in my journals-making them less about “art” and more about “soul”-more about “doing it” and less about “over thinking” about it! You are a jewel of life and joy! Thank you!
Yes! You got it!!!! xxx
Wendy, This journal process feels deeply healing. I hope to dive in sometime soon. Thank you for your kind and gentle ways and generous soulful sharing. You are a beautiful human being. You give me hope.
I went to the thrift store, honestly, I think the hardback books on the table were sited for the landfill, they were priced 10¢ ea. So, I said for that price no guilt. I found an very outdated college engineering math text, some such thing. Cut out some pages, painted some just whatever.
Learning my way through.
All that being said, I encourage you go for it. Find a book thrifting or yardsale such thing even if its markers, coloured pencils, the comic strip from the news paper. Just give yourself permission to play.
I so look forward to these every week. You have been a bright light throughout this last year - and yes, I did binge all the previous videos to be certain I didn't miss a thing!! You honesty and open heart adds warmness and joy to this world. Thanks to you for sharing yourself and fostering gratitude. XO
I agree WHOLEHEARTEDLY
Thank you Sherry xxxxxxxxxxxx
Absolutely agree.
Thank you Wendy, for sharing your creative journey with us. For being so brave and open about your art and your feelings. I am a mom of two boys and teach art to three to fourteen year olds in Vermont. It has been a rough few years. Your videos and beautiful artwork help ground me and inspire me to better live my truth. I really can’t thank you enough.
Awww you sound like you doing a great job... it's been bumpy for sure but together we all got this!!! xxxx
Ohhhhhh, thank you for being my 'calm'. I am so happy I discovered you last year when I was feeling very disheartened, you are an absolute breath of fresh air, so creative and honest, I feel like you have been in my life forever!! Look forward to your wonderful videos every week. xx
Awww, thank you too Helen xxxxxxxxxx
Thank you Wendy, another wonderful ‘get together’ to raise the spirits and bring joy and calm 🌺🌿
Have yourself a lovely week ahead!🌿🌸xx
You too Louise xxxxx much loves x
I have been having the worst anxiety ever and I believe I have never had it before the entire experience we have been having in the last few years. I made a list of things that I feel contribute to the feeling of being trapped and I am thankful to say it has been working.
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Sorry to hear this.... x soft hugs,,, may you feel freed soon!!!!! xxx
Hi take a look at Therapy in a nutshell on you tube
Its well worth a look
Its about anxiety
I have improved by watching this it explains how anxiety works and how to relieve it
Hope you have a good day
Best wishes
Lynda
@@lynda8852 Thank you so very much! I am doing much better since many of the restrictions are lifted in my country 💚
@@dillahcurl9308 restrictions were tough. I was quite grateful to have friends round the world.
It helped so much. Multiple ways.
Timezones anxiety sleep brokenness, there was pretty well always someone somewhere to write.
Also, seemed so many places were so much more restricted that made peace come.
Still work dropping by 60-70% made things rough.
We all are reconfiguring our lives.
So grateful Wendy and all are here.
Thank you Wendy! You’re so inspirational, and so appreciated 🥰
thank you too for keeping me company xx
You’ve inspired me to get those tree oracle cards! I plan to journal with them , waiting for them to arrive in the mail. Can’t wait to get started! Thanks for sharing with us, I always feel a bit better about life after I finish one of your videos. 💕😘🙏
They are lovely!!!! Big hugs x
As a Miami girl, I love limes! The taste, the color, the squeeze. I'm in New England (lived here now for many years) anxiously awaiting the spring! Cleaning, straightening, freshening everything in the house. Tomorrow a friend and I are going out to clean my art studio to get it ready for the next few seasons ( I close it and turn off the heat in late fall and winter). Like you, looking forward to the unfolding of everything, the studio, the green grass, the open windows, eating outside! Thank you for telling your van life story and sharing your process and life, Wendy. Best to you and James.
Been dealing with something kind of heavy, which has me in a pretty dark place. You have helped a lot! A) By lifting my spirit and mood...B) Pointing me in a direction of light and a plan of resolve.
Thanks and Hugs Wendy!!! ❤️
Sorry to hear this Melody xxx May your plan of light bring you much support and relief xxxxxx Big hugs too XXx
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Thank you so much for another inspiring video. Linden trees are wonderful, we have a couple, another awesome fact about them is you can pick the young /new leaves and they make a delicious and very affordable salad. We do this every year. The flowers are really good as herbal tea before bed time ! Love that you’re feeling so positive. Sending lots of love and linden tree vibes !
How lovely and the salad yes, I can imagine! Sending lots of love to you too! xx
"You have your happy place with you, everywhere you go." - Wendy
Thank you for reminding us of this. Every day is a gift, to enjoy, an opportunity to seek our happy place.
Blessings to you and James, and big squishy hugs.
Thank you for acknowledging the collective PTSD.
As "events" continue to unravel & going forward in general, discernment & staying present is key.
Much love to you Wendy 💜
I also want to say Apocalypse means lifting the veil & revealing truth.
Not much of the latter atm. X
Absolutely Alice... we've all been through a lot, .....
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Dear Wendy, I've watched your mood change. I truly enjoy your channel. I've been binge watching you and James ( truly adorable couple). Take care and see you in the next one. Sending love and big hugs Sherry
Awwww, thank you Sherry xxxx big hugs to you too x
I love your channel, thank you. This video is excellent as I have been sharing with my clients (as an astrologer, healing from past trauma with it and other practices) I encourage everyone to journal and you sharing sounds like the messages I have shared for a long, long time. Journaling, creative writing, and creation and gratitude are so healing! Thanks so much! I am sure I'll share this video with many it is so good. I've been journaling since age 14 (not always consistent, but definitely have kept at it). And scrapbooking photos too.
This is so helpful, I have been stuck with my journaling , and this will be a lovely thing to do. Regarding the PTSD, I totally agree with you.I have the same tree cards, so I’ll dig them out :)
on the same page!!! xxxxxx
I love your Journaling tips. I have not journaled in a long time. I am rather new to the process. I really have a lot to learn. Thank you for all your time in preparing these videos. I look forward to them every week. I am retired and they are very refreshing. It has been one year of my mom's passing. I struggle more with this than I realize. So you would think I would channel all of this grief in my journal. I will really try pulling it out into my journal. Thank you again for being you. 💜💜💜
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and encouragement. I’m in my 70’s and I thank you for keeping me company and for being such a bright light. It’s so much fun to spend time with you and I appreciate you and the work you do to make it possible. Love from my mountain top in middle Tennessee, where the hilltops kiss 💋 the sky ☀️, Fran
I got that book ‘The pleasure trap’ after you mentioned it, and I’m really enjoying it, I also got the box of letter stamps after seeing you get them, I’m not somebody easily lead into buying stuff but they both appealed to me, so thanks 🙏
Welcome and glad you are enjoying them! xxx I try not to buy much 'stuff' either!!
I've known for awhile that things were going to change, but not how or what. I've been praying for direction. Tonight I've had 3 people at different times tell me I need to write. All I could think at the time was you saying to write "I don't know what to write." That is actually how I found you, I asked TH-cam how to write in a journal and you came up, about 2 years ago. Sigh....I don't know what to write. Thank you for listening.
Thanks to you I restarted journalling and making albums again; I love paper, designs and using paints crayons mixed all together 🥰 this week I doug up all my paper designs an brought them to my studio; made me so happy ; bought two collors of craftpaper for mij albums ( 2x500 A3🙈😂) for the best price
And I am so grateful for my husband for sponsoring me 🥰🥰🥰
oooh happy place! enjoy! xx
You talking about moving studios a year ago makes me realise I've been watching you for a year as well! 💜
Thanks for sticking around sooooo long!! xxxxxxxxxx
@@theunexpectedgypsy thanks for making such lovely videos.
Good morning and thank you!
One pic can hold a hundred memories; the balance being
in how we choose to see it. And
as you said, with gratitude
(is beautiful)!
I listened this week to
Thich Nhat Hanh’s book
‘Peace in every Step’ (RIP)
It was beautifully aligned with nature!
Again thank you…
Stay blessed! ✌️🦚🐝
Awww, you too, xxx and thank you x
I'm so grateful to you and the others I follow on utube for your thoughts. I had never kept a journal before finding your videos and it has been a way of working thru issues and remembering to be grateful. TY.
Happy journaling Casey, yes, we are sooo lucky to have TH-cam and online inspiration and community xxxx
Thanks so much Wendy- in fact can’t find adequate words to thank you! A ‘stalled’ artist, that’s me, and been depressed, but bingeing on your art journal stuff the last week or so. I have all my ‘best’ paintings from my early teens still. Was a difficult time. Inspired by you this last weekend to get them out, find a way of binding them together (with some blank leaves as well) and start an art journal that’s a conversation between my 65-yr-old self (yes - it matters even more now!) and that really lonely teenager. Enough pages that I can be doing this for a few months - and the paintings (just teenage art) are not sitting in a dusty folder now. I needed to have this conversation - you opened the way! Might move on to my twenties afterwards!
Thank you for giving me permission to just be 🌸 sitting doing my art journaling is fantastic for my well-being but we are conditioned to believe we should be on the go all the time! Bless you Wendy 💓
Beautiful idea to utilize copies of photographs for your journal. Love the creativity Wendy and that you share with your followers.
I made a promise to myself that I would do my best without judgement to have a daily gratitude journal. With no expectations other than I knew I would need assistance to help me along my journey.So for Christmas I bought myself 'Power Thought Cards - Louisa Hay' and 'The Spirit Animal Oracle - Colette Baron-Reid'.
How I fell in ♥ with theses cards the Louisa Hay are positive affirmations , colorful and whimsical drawings by 5 different female artists. I shuffled that deck once on Jan 1st (and never again), each morning I do a little writing on how I feel, some gratitude of the simplest things, sometimes things come up that needs healing; then select the top card; I'm amazed how that card of the day can resonate to my writing. I always write out the affirmation in my journal and may or may not write more. And for Colette Baron-Reid cards oh my, what a beautiful magical deck have a wonderful time using them and learning from them.
What has been great is that sometimes I do a sketching too, best of all I'm having fun, it's very therapeutic (for me) and I've kept up with it everyday. Grateful I am on this journey, enough Barbara Babble 😉 ode to the Wendy Waffle ♥have a wonderful week!
Thank you Wendy! Finding balance as an artist and human is so important. I have documented others process as a teacher and journaled re: my process, but your process of putting your own growth on the schedule is truly mind elevating. I am grateful for your heart-spirit.😊
You’ve given me a great ideas for my journal. I’m just moving selling my home and this was the last home with my husband before his passing, I definitely with will tell a story. Thank you I will make it a gratitude ❤️
I like the simplicity of the journal to use now to uplift our being today.
awwww, thank you , xxx simple is best! xx
Cheers Wendy from Canada ! I love your inspiring videos and I so connect with you on every level, emotionally. Great ideas to do in my journals. It is so soothing, ,Journaling, my art, it's medicine for my soul!! I am getting a little art studio in 2 months ! I am so excited...it will be my peaceful haven.❤ God Bless you and thankyou.
Hello Sherry in Canada xxxx Thank you so much xxxxx So happy you are getting a studio! Enjoy every moment!! xxxxxxx
Gypsy woman is amazing with art and also with her soothing words😍
awwww xxxx
You are one of the world's brightest lights.
Awww, well, I try !!! As we all do!!! Big loves xxx
Lovely as always Wendy, and very helpful, you helped me remember how lucky I am to be where I am and with my wonderful partner. xxx
Gratitude all the way! xxxx
Dear Wendy, I loved the idea of the photos in my art journal, as I do find very comforting to see old photos of me and my family. I have many of them displayed in my house and I love to look at them, remember my family members who are not with me here anymore and remember how much my childhood was happy. And many times that is very helpful when I am feeling down or sad or depressed. So why not use them in my art journal? I don’t struggle with what to write, because I always have many things to say 😊, both to me and to others😊. But an art journal is more than words and that’s why I loved your idea. I struggle more with images, what to draw or paint or collage, than with words, as you may have already noticed😊. I love your gratitude post on instagram. I never had that habit and I find it very healthy to my mind, very freeing and very rewarding. It seems like I forget the bad things and retain only the good ones, when commenting in your gratitude post. So thank for that. Also thank you for keeping me company. Although we never met, I consider you now my virtual friend that visits me once a week and sometimes on instagram, and that, although struggling with the bad days, always has a motivation word for me. Your videos are a nice and friendly visit. See you soon.💙💜🧡♥️💚💛❤️
awww glad to hear xxx and thank you too for keeping me company xx
I hope you realise just how powerful, inspirational, and potentially life changing this video is ... bless you sweet angel 😍 💝
Haven't been able to watch & missed it. Thanks for these lovely reminders & tips! Wow looking at those photos reminded me of your videos at that time. Thanks for always sharing your journey & all with us 😊
Good Morning...We had a 'little-leaf Linden" tree in our back yard here in Michigan (US). We didn't call it a lime tree, because it didn't bear fruit, however, I became very sensitive to the pollen. But, it was a beautiful specimen. I love these segments on trees. I think I'll go out and hug one. xx
Heyyy!!! Awww, love your tale of your tree... Happy Tree Hugging Beauty! xxxxxxx
@@theunexpectedgypsy Thanks
I love the idea journaling with photos! Thanks for this inspiring video ❤️
Thank you! I'm digging through childhood photos to find that little girl who's parents had no expectations of. So healing! Look at me now!
Loveeee the photo of you sitting on the Window Sill ❤
You are a sane, still centre in a mad, mad world. Stay safe and well. xx
NOt very often!!!! Lols!!! I try hard though !!! xxxx Much loves and you too xxx
You have such good thoughts about how to be thankful. Loved this video. ❤️
Aww, thanks Cheri, I practise a lot!!! To counter the current world!!!!!
Thank you for sharing your journaling process and your light!❤️
And thanks for watching and keeping me company xxxx
A gratitude journal in these turbulent times seems a wonderful thing to do at the moment! With all this chaos going on your small corner of the internet is a haven and will help so many! Keep shining bright Wendy x
Needed this, thank you! Now to dig out my art stuff/journal/photos and hug my fav tree.....
Since I started journalling my life has got so much better, yes have off days but that’s just normal. My journal is like my personal therapist - I love this quote from Anne Franks Diary - “Paper is more patient than people” very true!
Love your idea with the photos x
Your videos just bring such a smile to my heart!! Thank you. ❤️
Thanks Terry this makes me happy for sure xxx
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, heart and wonderful journaling ideas! Fran
Thank you 😊
I’m so glad I found your channel.
I have been gradually watching all your videos.
This episode has inspired me to dig out my old art products and to put ink, paint and pens to an art journal - just for me and making the time to get into the ‘creative zone’.
Sending thanks and love from Tasmania, Australia 😊💛
I'm so enjoying going through all your videos. Love the calmness. Thank you so much for your lovely content.
Thank you so much for your honesty and authenticity, I have been enjoying these videos since the first lockdown and I'm so pleased I did. You're inspiration is infectious and inspires me every week in so many ways. I have recently had a blip a bit of a burn out and I am taking time with my cards to give that inner child the hug she needs. I love the Idea of printing some photos and journaling with them. Feeling excited about having a go myself thanks again have a great week 🙏
Awwww, may your journaling support and nurture you just when you seem to need it xxxxxx YOu too, have a great week xxx
I love this SO MUCH!! Thank you, Wendy, for being vulnerable and sharing your journey. Hugs and keep shining bright!!
Thank you too Lisa and you too!!! xxxxx
Oh how I can relate to enjoying ‘The Holiday’ movie. I usually watch it at Christmas but didn’t have a chance to revisit until a few weeks ago. Prompted by the relationship between Iris and Jasper, it actually resulted in a long overdue realisation and helped me with making a ‘necessary for my health and well being’ work/teaching related change this year. Such a sudden light bulb moment even though I’ve seen the movie many times before. Thankyou for the inspiration to use more real life photos as journal prompts. I have so many photos and so many letters and diaries yet don’t nearly often enough combine them :)
Just recently found you!! So GRATEFUL for that. I have a practice of gratitude writing every night at bedtime - even for things that I want but have not manifested yet, but surely will if I keep at it. It’s pure magic - the Law of Attraction. Thank you for your lovely self🙏
That is a lovely bedtime practice! xxxxx
I did all the artist way books for several years the journaling saved me. It is the writing I think that helped . Learning helps . This is so good. Love this .
Yes!! JOurnaling and writing sure does this, I am so glad you were saved! xxx
Beautiful Wendy....thank you so much for your continued presence and generosity. I subscribed way back when you were only just getting to 1000 followers....and you kept me company for all of the lockdown times, keeping my spirits up and inspiring me to keep creating. Then I drifted away from just about everything 'social' on the internet, finding I really, really needed some quiet and solitude for a while. The world had just got too loud for me. I'm so glad to have found my way back to you and am looking forward to catching up on all that I've missed. Blessings to you and James and again, thank you for being such a bright light in this mad, mad world. xo
Thank you for keeping me company for sooo long Melanie xxx It's lovely to see you again! xxxx Mad mad world, yes, completely understand you stepping away for some peace... xxxxx much love
I would like to thank you.
Listening to your insights is like meditative guidance to me... where I simultaneously enjoy your company and journal and draw myself. So it's almost like dancing on this fine line between having a companion and self-exploratory freedom of expression. There's deep richness in your modesty and adjacency...
Thank you too for keeping me company xxx
I'm reading "The artist's way" too, I'm on the first week :) I love your style to journal, I definitely wanna try it, even though just writing works for me
Lovely xxxx Happy journaling,,, xxxx
I just realized that you are a left handed. Yeah to us lefties! Thank you as always for a relaxing and inspiring video. You’ve helped me move back into my drawing and painting.
Left yes!!! Glad to hear you are creating again, lifechanging!!! xxx
I love your podcasts but I must say, this one was one of my favorites! I could feel myself relax throughout the video just watching you journal and explain everything you were doing and why you were doing it. I am a true believer in being grateful, and I try to journal at least 5 things each day that I am grateful for . I have never used pictures like you have here, but i definitely will after watching. Thank you for being so open and vulnerable in your videos! It truly helps when you share your feelings, it helps to see that we are not alone in our feelings post lockdown,. Watching your podcasts and learning your great journaling tips, is one thing I am grateful for today!! Thank you Wendy!!
Thank you Denise, xxxx I am grateful for your beautiful comment too! Much loves xxx
This was so lovely and therapeutic to watch, and you've given me an idea of how I can grasp how these two years have impacted me as well. I've been feeling all discombobulated for a while now, anxious about things going back to "normal", whatever that is! Now you've shown me a way to get a look at my situation, give it a real ponder, and maybe accept where we've all been, and where we find ourselves now! Thank you, Wendy!💛
Thank you for taking us along on the journal-journey. Very uplifting, as always. Blessings Wendy.
I love the idea of personal photos in a journal; especially when you copy them so you can write on them, adorn them, or shape them any way you want. I also love the way you painted two of your journal pages. I would love to know the type of paint you used. I have tried this numerous times in the past, but the pages always seem to warp a bit!
Hello dear Wendy, thank you for always sharing and being so brave to share . like you I love being by the tress to stand behind one when and look up , it like letting all those things go .sending love and hugs 🤗 Teresa xx
Oh yes, I love this! I do this too xxxx big love and hugs to you too xxx
I loved this video - it was therapeutic just watching you process through your journal - I feel so privileged to be invited into your space, thank you. We have some beautiful linden trees in our village, and in the summer their scent is intoxicating; it was good to time travel to warmer and longer days and think about that today!
Well I am just as priviledged to have your company too. xx I wish I could smell the aroma in my book!!! xxxxxxx
hello dear yes Gratitude for all even when it is ruff as always there are blessings in the Challenges in our life we just have to look for them , yes it is so ok to feel our feelings and Take care of our human self it has been scary times over the last couple years for all of here on the earth. Our strength lays in our heart where we are connected to all and we can get through anything thing and sharing our truths and compassion and empathy for each other is most amazing Thank you for sharing your truths with us and insights you are a blessing and beautiful dear
Thank you too for sharing, we are a big circle of love xxxxxxxxx big hugs xxxx
I'm thankful for you Wendy! This video is like the one that led me to you in the first place in March of 2020. I got sent home to work from the dining room table and life changed! had to learn how to teach on Zoom without the IT department but had the best garden we ever had, and started Art Journaling! Something I hadn't done in 10 years!
Aww Tracy thank you so much xxxxx ARt Journaling Queen now!!! xxxxxxxx
What a lovely idea Wendy! And you are so fortunate to have a loving partner to take these beautiful photos of you and your process and feelings during these past couple of crazy years. Living alone with no photographic record of my journey will make this idea impossible ☹ I will visit one of my (close to home) favorite trees💚🌳 tonight and ponder with the huge grand dame and see what other ideas may percolate into possibilities for an art journal.🤔 Thank you for shining your bright light with me today!💫🌞💖🙋♀️ Sending much Aloha across the miles to you dear heart!💫💖🌺💫
Try not to worry and just use what you have. NO need to have ourselves in the pics it's a memory so lots of ways to put that on the page... just simply writing is enough... and thank you too for keeping me company xxxx much Aloha to you too XXxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I feel your heart from this long distance xxx
@@theunexpectedgypsy thank you dear heart💖...you are a Love! 🥰🥰🌺
Thank you, this is a lovely idea, a great way to connect to your inner child ❤️
Yes! Right? xxxxxx Thank you xxx
I've been feeling very low due to what is going on in the world right now, but your videos give me great comfort 💕
I know, I feel you! But there is always something to be grateful for and being at peace spreads.... Hold on tight, the sun is coming!!!
Just time itself is such an abstract concept and experience, even before you pile emotions and memory on top of it! Human-ing is a full time job.
It sure is!!! xxxxx
So inspiring, Wendy. Thank you!
oh good, thank you too!! xx
Thank you Wendy for this video!! Never thought to put photos in my journal!! I'm still dealing with alot of grief from the loss of family members and I think this could help tremendously!!❤ I also love that movie The Holiday and bought copies of it years ago to a few of my female family members!!❤❤❤ Thank you for everything you share and do in these videos!! It helps so much on so many different levels!!!❤❤❤ sending lots of light and warmth your way!!!❤❤❤
Soft hugs for grief processing Pamela xxxxx much love and light your way too!! xxxxxxxxx
Love it. ❤️
It really did help you, I would not have guessed the day started with you not feeling that well!
Oh my I was soooo grumpy!!! hahahhaha!!!!
St David's Day tomorrow. So I am going to buy some Dafodils and be greatful for them brightening my day and space. They are so cheerful!
Oh yes, yellow daffs! xxxxxxx
I just thought about to begin with life writing, autobiographical writing. But I didn't know how to start. And than... along came this video! Thank you for your inspiration just in the right time again. I will chose some fotos, print, collage and start to write. Have a good sunday ❤️
Serendipity to the max, how wonderful Emma xxxxxx YOu too, have a great week!! xxx
Dear Wendy, thank you for reminding me that I am supposed to be the leading lady in my own life story! And I love the movie ‘The Holiday’ as well. I have only recently discovered your channel and I now feel like I have met and made a new friend. Thank you for your honesty and creativity. ☺️🌟🌸💕
I know right!!! I love that reminder in the film myself!!! Thank you for keeping me company in the online world of friends here on TH-cam! It's a very special place to me!! A circle of love!!! xxxxx
You are such an inspiration. I love your approach to life and journalling videos.
Thanks so much xxxx
I love your “magic” ♥️
TY Tracey xxxxx
Oh my word! Yes PTSD. Thank you so much for giving me something to hang onto! Many 🤗
When you said that you can carry your happy place with you, wherever you go, it reminded me of a poem I read recently by Roger Robinson - A Portable Paradise.
I shall have to look that one up Jayne thank you xxx
Wendy...thanks again for sharing your time and your wisdom! Love ya' Hugs from Texas.
Helloooo in Texas and thank you xxx
Your videos make me happy as usual...
well, thank you and your comment makes me sooo happy too!!
Thank you for this beautiful video Wendy - you have given me much food for thought. I have been thinking about writing recently, after coming across some diaries I wrote as a young teenager. I think journaling with photographs and snippets of words could be very healing 🙏🏻🌻
Much love to you x
Yes, happy journaling Willow xxxxxx much love back to you too xxx
I love this idea about using photos in journaling! This gets me going and now I will sift thru my photos online. I can think of so many ways to use them like telling a story, seeing my hairdo changes over a long time (and there were so many, Wendy--haha. Some were absolutely atrocious, and others were a little cute.) My whole life I have wanted looong hair, but have always gone and done it, THAT,--the haircut. Sure I've had it long-er, but never looong, really long. And for me, that's what I am doing. I've got more to go to get to the place I'd like to be, but it's just about past the longest I've ever had it.
Not really sure why I have sabotaged my efforts so many times (well, a couple of cuts were due to a bad perm), but somehow I got past the hard parts this time--that not so great in between length and such--maybe it took making a pact with my husband's cousin to let our hair grow, no ifs ands or buts! Both of us have been growing hair for 4 yrs now. I LOVE your hair, Wendy. So long and beautiful (as you are). Don't believe I've met anyone on YT as open and honest and relevant as you are. Just what the doctor ordered😘. It sounds silly to me as I read over what I've written, yet I believe there is some thread there that has been leading me to cut my hair numerous times when I had wanted to grow it longer. I'm going to think on it and try to get to the bottom of it. You've sorted through your last two years or more and it's helped you quite a lot. I will try to do a similar thing using pictures and other memorabilia I tend to save all of my ephemera from events or trips, and so I have items to trigger those memories. Now I'm excited to discover feelings, memories, and people from my pics. Thank you so much for unlocking yet another whole, meaningful way of self discovery and growth. You're positively Lovely my friend. XOXOJANE
Awww a timeline of your hair!! I love this!! May it grow long and magical!!! xxx much loves xxx
I worked on my bullet journal as I watched this, getting March set up. I have surgery coming up, so I now need to go to to creative journal and process that a bit. Who knew you could tear a rotator cuff just by reaching for a headset? Sheesh.
Ouch! May you heal up fast adn easy xxxxx much love and journal away! xxx
Great photo of You and James ❤️ such a Lovely Couple
Love you videos they really help me thank you x
خیلی واسم جالب بود من مثل شما قبلا با عکس ودفترهایم همین کارو کردم خیلی قشنگه کارشماهم مرسی بسیارزیبا
it is indeed! xxxx
If you can't write then don't worry - I have found that sometimes adding a coloured border or a "feeling" word nicely decorated to start me off - really works well as then there is no blank paper which can freeze alot of people. I have also used newspaper, magazine pages etc to just start me off or not journal that day just decorate the page and explain you couldn't write today (now you're writing lol)
Totally agree! xxx And some lovely ideas! xxxxx
Thank you wonderful friend.. Greetings from South Africa.. Going into winter here🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Snuggle down and journal for winter... xxxx much loves x
I've never heard of that "selfie" journalling exercise before Wendy - I'm going to give it a whirl.... selfie healing ? perhaps heehee... thanks for helping us all keep our lights shining bright. XXX
Enjoy your journaling!! Xxxxxxx Much loves xxxx
@@theunexpectedgypsy thank you. Julie xxxxx
When stuck for words to open my journal writing I start with ''I am open to this New Day'' or, '' I thank The Universe for all my Blessings''. I'm usually off like a greyhound then and could go on and on . . . a ''waffle'' . . . hahaha! Thank you for the video.
Lovely!!! xxxx Happy journal waffle!!! tee hee! x
@@theunexpectedgypsy Big ol' love t'you!!! XXX
The flowers on the linden tree smell so good.
Oh lovely!!! xxxx
Thanks for your reply, much appreciated.
Welcome Deirdre!! xxxxx I'm a day late really but love reading all the comments in here!!!! xxx thank you for leaving one!! xxx