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Journalling 101 - Claim Your Creative Space

June 26, 2022 Helen Davis
Collage Woman Reaching Up

Your Creative Journal Is For You . . .

We’ve learned to see creativity as something elitist. I’m not creative. I can’t draw. Or write meaningful things. All this and more may bubble to the surface when considering creative journalling. Worse still — who’ll see this meandering (sometimes deeply revealing) mess?

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In Journalling 101 Tags creative journal, visual journal, art journal, creative space, boundaries, rituals, criticism, NASA, art kit, safe place, sharing, inner critic

Journalling 101 - Why Perfectionism Has No Place In Your Journal

June 26, 2022 Helen Davis
Mixed media altered book spread with fire

On Perfectionism, Mess & Mistakes

Creative journalling is a process. A journey. An exploration. A kind of adventure. Requiring us to let go and let live. There will be ebbs. There will be flows. There will be mistakes. There may be blobs. Dribbles. Scrawls which make your skin crawl . . .

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In Journalling 101 Tags creative journal, creativity, inner critic, perfectionism, Danielle Laporte, Anne Lamott, Marcus Aurelius, shame, mistake

Journalling 101 - Do I Have to Be Creative to Journal?

June 26, 2022 Helen Davis
Mixed media Rorschach surrealist woman crying portrait

But I’m Not Creative!

Creativity is a loaded word. A much misunderstood word. Haunted by ghosts of art teachers past. Weighted with words uttered by well-meaning parents concerning arty crafty things being airy fairy things . . .

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In Journalling 101 Tags creativity, visual journal, creative journal, wonder, NASA, creative flow, curiosity, judgement, criticism, inner critic
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