The Journaling Muse

The Journaling Muse – Issue #42 Riding the Current: Flowing with Resistance and Restlessness A soft space to reflect, reconnect, and create with feeling. My intention is to help you slow down and soothe your nervous system — through colour, texture, and expressive journaling that speaks gently to your inner world. Dear Reader, As the year speeds toward its close, I feel the familiar pull, the world begins to spin faster, and part of me still tries to find stillness inside it. But the truth...

The Journaling Muse – Issue #41: When Resistance Speaks, Listen Softly A soft space to reflect, reconnect, and create with feeling. My intention is to help you slow down and soothe your nervous system — through colour, texture, and expressive journaling that speaks gently to your inner world. Dear Reader As the holidays approach, I find myself facing resistance again. Every time I plan to share or sell my paintings, a familiar voice shows up.Suddenly, the photos aren’t ready, the website...

The Journaling Muse – Issue #40 The Bottleneck and the Breakthrough A soft space to reflect, reconnect, and create with feeling.My intention is to help you slow down and soothe your nervous system — through colour, texture, and expressive journaling that speaks gently to your inner world. Dear Reader, Imagine a glass bottle filled with light.Life, ideas, and possibilities flow through it—but only as fast as the narrowest point allows. That narrow place is our bottleneck.It’s where desire and...

The Journaling Muse – Issue #39 Patterns That Hold Us A soft space to reflect, reconnect, and create with feeling. Dear Reader, There are places where I feel my energy contract, as if the air itself remembers an old story about who I should be. Each time I return there, the familiar roles wait—dutiful, careful, quiet. Each time I leave, I breathe a little easier, remembering that freedom is also a geography of the heart. It isn’t the place itself that holds me;it’s the pattern—the invisible...

The Journaling Muse – Issue #38 The Shadows We Carry A soft space to reflect, reconnect, and create with feeling. Personal Reflection Lately, I’ve been trying to live from my dream-life self—the version of me that Dr. Joe Dispenza describes, already whole, peaceful, and free. But sometimes I slip back into old patterns. A headline, a twinge of pain, or a wave of fear from the world around me pulls me off course. Suddenly I’m doubting, reacting, or losing patience with my body’s slow healing....

The Journaling Muse – Issue #37 Where do you want to begin? A soft space to reflect, reconnect, and create with feeling.My intention is to help you slow down and soothe your nervous system — through colour, texture, and expressive journaling that speaks gently to your inner world. Hi, Dear Reader, The beginning of October feels like opening a fresh page. Summer has slipped behind us and we’re standing at the quiet edge of a new season. It’s the perfect time to ask: where do I want to begin...

The Journaling Muse – Issue #36 Equinox Light and Shadow A soft space to reflect, reconnect, and create with feeling. Hi, Dear Reader, Last Sunday, the Moon slid silently between us and the Sun, a celestial moment of awe and temporary shadow. 🌙The very next day, the Earth held its breath at the Equinox. ☀️ A holy pause indeed. This is a moment of balance, not only between day and night in the sky, but also within us. The eclipse reminded us to let go, to allow old habits, fears, or stories to...

The Journaling Muse – Issue #35 Unease of Change A soft space to reflect, reconnect, and create with feeling. Hi, Dear Reader, Restlessness has many flavors. Before a competition, before jumping into the water, it can feel electric, charged with adrenaline. But there’s another kind: heavier, slower, stretched across weeks. That’s the one I feel now. I’m finishing the last details of remodeling our old house into an eco-home, the garage, the garden, the paperwork. Years of choices, effort, and...

The Journaling Muse – Issue #34 Who Do You Choose to Be A soft space to reflect, reconnect, and create with feeling. My intention is to help you slow down and soothe your nervous system — through colour, texture, and expressive journaling that speaks gently to your inner world. Hi, Dear Reader, Years ago, I was a workaholic. I worked in Corporate Finance as a managing director of a brokerage company on the securities market, moving from project to project without pause. My life was spent in...