Journaling has always been a go-to thing with me, where I have loved to write my heart and soul out, really express myself. Lately, it hasn’t hit the same, words are forced and it’s like I have fallen out with the written words at times. Then switch flicks and it all flows out.

Lately, I felt you need to just take breaks here and there with journaling, like with everything you do in your life. Too much isn’t great. You are overwhelmed and feel under pressure to write, not for yourself,  but because it is expected of you to produce something.  To me, that isn’t creative flow at all. It should be organic, free-flowing. 

I go through ebbs and lows where I  can journal up a storm, but it should never be a chore. Lately, I have been doing the living my life thing suggested by another journaling person said they did. Because let’s face it, you can not write and journal if you aren’t living a life out in the world. Sometimes I find I need to get outside my head, and out into the larger world itself.

This approach has worked really well, and then I find myself actually picking up my journal to play in, because I  do love to document my life and the things that bring me joy and are part of my life. But if you go through the motions, journaling becomes another thing on your to-do list, something else to dread doing, when it should be freeing not a chore.

Here is to 2026 new journaling journey.

Adieu for now Kitty-kat xox