A Creative Journal is . . .
A book to play in. A place to express yourself visually. Without judgement. A space to reflect, release, reimagine. Gather thoughts, feelings, inspirations. A place to let your mind wander. And your eye wonder.
Shop bought. Hand bound. Reused charity shop finds (aka altered books). Creative journals come in myriad shapes and sizes. It’s what you do with them that matters . . .
☆ Want specifics? Here’s a wee post on creating an art kit.
Reclaim Your Creative Flow
It can be a kind of alchemical container. A cauldron. A cooking pot. Your journal speaks in images. Symbols. Colours. Words. Drop your questions into its pages. Immerse yourself in the ebb and flow of creativity. Watch solutions emerge. And pathways reveal themselves.
☆ How do you get there? What do you do? Good questions — there’s a post to get your juices flowing here.
A Space For You
This is your personal wonderland. Choose your own adventure. Come here for calm. For respite. For pleasure. Use your journal to record memories. Ponder ideas. Celebrate highs. Process lows. To re-member.
☆ Discover more on creative boundaries here . . .
Embrace Wonder
No arty crafty skills required. Just curiosity. A sense of childlike wonder. A willingness to relinquish control. To kill your darlings. Embrace the serendipity in so-called mistakes. Take the scenic route. To follow the breadcrumbs. To connect those dots.
☆ Don’t believe me? Discover more about our innate creative natures here or why drawing skills don’t really matter here.
☆ Inner critic giving you grief? Try this.
Reconnect With & Rediscover Yourself
As avid journaller Sabrina Ward Harrison explains in her book The True + The Questions:
“I journal to understand my life as I am living it. I use my journals as a place to put the things that spill over the edges of my life: photo negatives, scraps of paper, poems I have heard and loved, my sorrows and epiphanies, the true and the questions. My journals have become guideposts for my life.”
