The Journaling Muse

The Journaling Muse – Issue #48 Beginning the Year by Listening 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, I don’t begin a new year with big declarations.I return to a few simple rituals I’ve followed for years, because they work. I take time to think the past year through.I write down the thirty best...

The Journaling Muse – Issue #47 The Quiet Magic of December (Inside: A Moment, A Wish, A Plan) A soft space to reflect, reconnect, and create with feeling. Hi, Dear Reader, Last night, I sat in the Opera Krakowska watching The Nutcracker — something I used to do every December with my son.In Budapest, we went year after year until he finally said, “Not anymore, Mom.” This performance began differently — not a lavish Christmas house, but a ship moving gently on an open ocean.The music was the...

The Journaling Muse – Issue #46 The Quiet Glow 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, Recently, whenever I tried to touch something light, uplifting, or magical, I found myself swallowed by crowds instead. On the last warm November day, we drove toward Ojcow hoping for a peaceful walk, only to...

The Journaling Muse – Issue #45 A Soft Return to Yourself 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, I’ll be honest:I don’t like this time of year. The darkness, the cold, the long stretch until spring — it all feels heavy to me. December carries its own glow, but once it fades, winter can feel endless....

The Journaling Muse – Issue #43 Where Is Your Light Hiding? 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, This morning, while exercising, I listened to Mel Robbins interview Mark Nepo, and one line stopped me completely: “The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms, and the bee comes.” We spend so...

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...