Get To the Root with Rachel Logan

Hello Cadre. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Happy Wednesday. I hope you are well. I'm going to give you some time to come on in. I am Rachel Logan your get to the root counselor. I'm so excited to be with you today. So come on in, grab some paper and pencil. As we are talking today about the power of journaling. All month long we're talking about the power of journaling. So I'll give you a few minutes to hop on in, gather yourselves. Hello T. Brown. Thank you for joining. Thank you for joining. This week we are talking about the power of journaling.

So while we're waiting for more people to hop on, I am curious to know. Hello Robert, Curious to know, do you journal regularly? Do you allow time to journal? So let me know, is that a yes or no? If you like to journal, is it something you do regularly? Every once in a while I'm curious, I'm curious of how people reflect. So come on in, gather yourself. Get your paper and pencil. I have mine. Gather your thoughts for a quick pop in about the power of journaling. So T. Brown and Robert, where are you from?

I am in Illinois. So not Chicago. I'm in the South. I live closer to Missouri. So where are you guys from? And right now it is very cold. The ice is still icing outside. It is. It is something outside. So you said. I don't but want to start. Okay, cool. Yes, this is a good place to start. I have a really, really great juicy question to kind of prompt you today. So just stay tuned. Stay tuned. Okay. Welcome from the va. Welcome. That's pretty cool. How's the weather there? I haven't been tracking how everyone else is doing.

I've been tracking California in the southern states. So yeah, I hope you guys are well over there. Robert, where are you from? So as we are getting ourselves together, we're going to talk about the power of journaling and I'm going to get started here in one second. But just reflecting on if you like to journal, where do you start? We're going to talk about it today and if you get a chance, T. Brown, get a check out last week's call where we talk about how journaling is like. Let me rephrase it.

Journaling is like the messy junk drawer that we all have in our house. If you got a junk drawer, give me a heart. I have two of them and they're side by side. It's kind of funny, but it's Journaling is like opening up that junk drawer and taking everything out and deciding what you're gonna put back into the drawer and what you're gonna let go of. So it's literally decluttering. It's literally decluttering your thoughts, it's decluttering that your mind. That's how I like to look at journaling.

Because you know, sometimes our thoughts are like going a mile per, well 100 miles per hour and we gotta slow down and declutter and separate the things. We're gonna like keep and let go to things as junk. That's how I like to look at journaling. Yeah. Okay, well, let's get started, you guys. Journaling. We're talking about the power of journaling. Journaling is, is a magical way to release, release the tension, release your worries, release your thoughts. And I want us to think about our journal prompting for today.

I am a Christian, so I mix faith with evidence based practices and promote healing that way. And so you will hear T. Brown and anyone else who joins, we are gonna pull in scriptures to kind of help us connect the two. Okay, so journaling is like cleaning out our junk drawer or our messy closet that I am still working on. Okay. I have a closet that needs some tender love and care. And so we're working on it. And so just like with our thoughts, we have to work on, on our thoughts daily. Okay, so cleaning out that junk drawer, I mean sometimes you can designate like an hour or two to like get everything out and sorted, but sometimes it's bit by bit.

And like when we are working on our mental health or we're working on our self esteem or really holding into our identity, it's day by day. It's like habit stacking. It's like saving your coins. It's something that you do over time. And so the one way that I've noticed that's been really powerful for me and for my clients is to pause daily, like giving yourself allotted time to think and to release. Because when you think about a T. Brown and Robert, we consume so much all day long and sometimes we have the moment to process it and sometimes we don't.

And when we don't, it just kind of stores up. It's like that next thing we added to our junk drawer. And then before we know, it's kind of hard to open, it's hard to close. And for our emotions, what that looks like is like attitude, anger, tiredness, just feeling annoyed. And so we have a responsibility and obligation to release daily. So I just want to invite you in and to begin this practice of that you set aside time 10 minutes a day. Maybe it's every other day, maybe it's once a week. But regardless, you allow yourself to release.

Okay, give me a heart if you feel like, hey, sometimes I have so much in my mind and I do need to release. Yeah, send me some hearts if that's you. Sometimes life gets heavy. Sometimes life is exciting and you want to like, remember the moment, but sometimes you need to release. And. And so that's the power of journaling. So as we are thinking about journaling, yes, we are decluttering. Yes, we are taking time to process our thoughts. I was also thinking about how we need to process our destinies.

We all have a destiny, every single one of us. We have something that we're sent here to do. And it's not just one thing. It's multiple things. We are multifaceted. And so we have multiple things we have to do. And we gotta process that. So I have a really, really good question for you today. A really good journal prompting. Alright, so get your paper and pen out and I want you to write down this question. I have a couple. You ready? When was a time you felt you were doing exactly what you were created to do?

Hello, Kay Keller. We are processing and journaling today and I just gave you guys a question. So if you have your paper and pencil. K. Keller, jot this down and process this now or later. When was a time you felt you were doing exactly what you were created to do? When was the last time you felt like you were really walking in your purpose and destiny? And our purpose and destiny may or may not be on like the stage. Maybe our purpose and destiny is taking care of our families or our parents, being a part of an organization or a group and serving.

Maybe your purpose is being a teacher and helping kids learn how to read and grow. Maybe your purpose is helping our community in some kind of way. Maybe your purpose is being a doctor or lawyer. Maybe your purpose is being a student right now and growing and learning, getting a degree. But I want you to sit back and reflect. When was the time you felt like you were doing exactly what you were created to do? And as you journal, be gentle. Be gentle. Be gentle with your words. Be gentle with yourself.

No comparison, no judgment. We simply acknowledging the last time we felt like we were doing exactly what we're created to do. And if you find yourself wondering, well, I don't know what I'm created to do. I don't know what my purpose is. Well, good. This is a good time to journal and sit back and think about all the all your interests and hobbies and likes, what are you finding yourself gravitating? The power of journaling helps you to really make it clear who you are. Sometimes the world can tell you who you ought to be, but I'm here to tell you no.

You get to determine who you are. You define you. And you can do that through journaling. So I leave you with this question and with a scripture. When was the time you felt like you were doing exactly what you were created to do? When we share, we add value. So I'll share. I believe I am created to encourage people. So when I'm here on Cadre or if I'm online or on my YouTube channel, I feel fulfilled and I feel like I'm doing what I'm created to do to empower and encourage people. And I can do that in multiple ways.

I can do that just by being gentle and nice to my son and my daughter. When I'm out and about at the grocery store and I help someone and. Or I encourage them or I give them a compliment and they feel good and not feel good. I'm fulfilling purpose. So it can be grand, it can be small, it can be right in the middle. But think about it. Recall a moment when you felt like a puzzle piece fit perfectly into God's big plan for you. Recall that memory. Recall that feeling, that sensation, that excitement, and find yourself doing it all over again.

That's the simple question I have for you today. That's the power of journaling. Because at the end, there will be a sense of clarity that maybe wasn't there before. And that's what we seek. We all seek clarity. We all want a greater understanding of ourselves or about our situation or about the world and life around us. So I encourage you, if you get something from it, post. Send me a message. Post on our communities if journaling has been delightful for you. If you find yourself T. Brown Kay Keller journaling and you realize, like, hey, I'm discovering something new, post it.

Share with someone. When you share, you add value. When you share, you add value. So journal recall. And if you can't, you say to yourself, this is my time to design and begin to design the plans and ideas that's been circulating in your mind. They're worth paying attention to. Your thoughts are worth paying attention to. Your ideas are worth paying attention to. All right, good people. It's been a joy and a delight to be with you today, to pause to get to the root. And today we're getting to the root of our destiny and thoughts and plans and desires.

So I hope you guys have an amazing Wednesday. This is a great and wonderful day. Just remember that the plans of the Lord for you are good and sent to you to prosper, not to harm you, as From Scripture, Jeremiah 29 and 11. All right, good people, I'll see you next week. Bye.