Today I wanted to take a time out from organizing, thinking, running around like crazy, overthinking, and planning to really focus in on the JOY of the holidays.

We often get sucked into the stresses of the holidays and forget to sink in to the opportunities for joy, family, celebration, happiness, reminiscing, etc.

Another Saturday, another style of journaling!

We’ve talked a little bit about using Morning Pages and List Journaling to brain dump, but today’s type of journaling is a more organized and specific way to brain dump.

You can use this method for to-do lists, but also studying for tests, learning a new skill or organizing tasks.

Self Love is the name of the game today. I know that the hot trend right now is “Self Care Sunday”, which in my opinion is the same, but different than Self Love.

It’s the weekend! I hope you’re taking some time to meditate, love on yourself, and JOURNAL!

Last weekend we talked about List Journaling, so this weekend I wanted to introduce you to Morning Pages.

I first learned about Morning Pages from a class I took during my Health Coach Certification from Julia Cameron. It is a method of journaling that uses stream of conscious writing. The idea is to wake up and before you do anything else write at least three pages of whatever comes up.

For me, a big part of journaling is to brain dump.

I’m like a computer with way too many windows open on my browser. What happens to your computer when you have too many windows open? It starts to run slower, process slower, glitch out, and make you angry, right?!

I feel that journaling has the effect of closing some of my open windows in order to create optimization.