This is one of my new favorite ways to release my emotions and thoughts without filtration, then turn them into something beautiful!
Rachel Havocost is a writer and mental health advocate. Junk journaling is sort of like scrapbooking and journaling combined. It allows us to let go of a lot that we're holding on to and then make something beautiful out of it.
Let's talk about junk journaling. Hi, my name is Rachel Havocost. I'm a writer and mental health advocate. And today I want to talk to you about a very crafty, artsy, creative skill slash tool that I am going to start using for my mental health. So if you've heard of junk journaling, amazing. If you haven't, welcome to the club. I just learned about it. So junk journaling is sort of like scrapbooking, sort of like journaling combined. And if you would like, there is a really therapeutic way to go about it.
So my friend was telling me yesterday the way that she junk journals is she opens up a brand new blank journal and she just writes out everything she's feeling or thinking without any filter, without any shame, any, any single thought she's having without worrying about if it's good, bad, ugly, pretty, whatever. And then she finds things like photos, stickers, drawings and puts them all on top of what she's written to make a beautiful collage on top. So all of this emotional, so all of these emotions and these thoughts get to come out of us and they get to go lives somewhere real and then we get to cover them up with something beautiful.
And I think that that's such a wonderful way to have a creative outlet combined with journaling because it allows us to let go of a lot that we're holding on to and then make something beautiful out of it. My therapist also said that scrapbooking in general is a really wonderful therapeutic tool because in times when, at least for myself, when I'm feeling like I don't have anything to wake up for, or life isn't good, or there's nothing, or when I'm just generally feeling depressed or like I haven't lived a life that I really want to, I can look back on these scrapbooks at memories and see all of this joy that used to exist.
So it's a really lovely thing that we get to go back and look at like a photo album in ways, but we created it. And so it's this beautiful thing that we've made that we can also go back and look on and remind ourselves of all the joy and the beauty that's been in our lives. I hope you found this helpful and I will see you next time.
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