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The non-illustrated stack of daily journals I’m

The non-illustrated stack of daily journals I’m checking into.

I finally have successfully created a journaling and (gentle) tracking habit that integrates with my life. It’s aligning so beautifully.

At the beginning of the day I word vomit my brain onto paper (or if you prefer elegance, I allow the breathings of my heart to flutter onto the page). this is the fabric covered Stalogy.

As soon as I get to work I open the Papertess daily planner and map the day.

After T has put our son to bed, I sit on the couch with a fluffy blanket and log my day in the weeks and the A6 Hobonichi.

The 5 Year journal is left out next to the couch for writing bits of my son into.

The TN is carried around for whipping out a notebook rather than my phone.

Beautifully seamless and a day filled with paper and words rather than scrolling 🖤 working for me in this season.

These are the journals I spent every single day in

These are the journals I spent every single day in January in.

Bottom to top:
Elliot’s 5 Year journal (Hobonichi A5) with the memories I’m keeping for him

Daily planner (@papertessdesigns) for work and processing.

Written journal (Stalogy B6) that I word vomit into, whose insides are never allowed to see the light of day.

Health planner (Hobo Weeks) for planning, uh, health.

Quantified Life (Hobo A6) for daily tracking and logging and it’s the biggest surprise how much I have adored this.

Passport TN for writing absolute nonsense in, but it has a pigeon pin on it so things are grand.

There is a topic I've been exploring in my art jou

There is a topic I've been exploring in my art journal for seven years now. It hasn't been an easy topic to explore, but I knew that it was very much needed and I continued.

I've wandered off the journey, wandered back to it. It hasn't looked remotely similar at each stage, but this constant returning is what has grown my heart.

Over the years I've seen a very small handful of other creatives exploring the topic too. It's something that requires courage and vulnerability in equal measures. A layer of kindness, and another entire layer of brave when you share pieces of it.

The topic is my (your) body.

The first time the idea came to create a class for this, I immediately shut it down. I knew that this is powerful but creating a class about the human body would probably mean I'd have to share my own body in some form, and eeeeek.

The idea didn't leave, though. As much as I tried to push it out, it stayed on through the years.

Finally, back in 2021, Brave Caylee put it on the calendar for 2023. I'd have time to prepare, I'd have time to make sure my body was perfect.

The universe laughed at my plans, and 2022 was the roughest year for my body yet. I went through a life-altering surgery, which has forever changed my body. Through this, I gave up on the Perfect Body and in doing so, I was able to find so much more. My body became a thing of awe, not because of what it looked like, but because of its own healing. The journey of exploring my own body as art had so much more meaning to it.

And so I'm here, showing up in 2023, being reminded of the value in sharing in the messy middle. The beauty in the imperfect. My inner critic, the loud fear within me is yelling, but I'm ignoring them and letting you know that Body of Art is now open for enrollment through @getmessyartjournal .

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