What if your beliefs aren't true?
8 days ago â˘Â 2 min readThe Journaling Muse â Issue #21 From Limiting Beliefs to Empowering Affirmations A soft space to reflect, reconnect, and create with feeling. Dear Reader, Iâve been painting for over a decadeâyet for years, I hesitated to call myself an artist. Why? Because deep down, I carried quiet but powerful beliefs about what it means to be one. Maybe youâve felt this tooâuncertain whether youâre âallowedâ to claim a title, a dream, or a truth that feels real inside but fragile in the world outside....
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15 days ago â˘Â 2 min readThe Journaling Muse â Issue #20 Where the Light Finds You A soft space to reflect, reconnect, and create with feeling. My intention is to help you slow down and soothe your nervous system â through colour, texture, and expressive journaling that speaks gently to your inner world. Reflection: The Return of Light After months of muted skies and quiet introspection, I find myself energised by brightness. Whether itâs the golden hour shimmering on KryspinĂłw Lake or the soft morning glow in...
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29 days ago â˘Â 2 min readThe Journaling Muse â Issue #18 When the World Feels Too Loud A soft space to reflect, reconnect, and create with feeling. My intention is to help you slow down and soothe your nervous system â through colour, texture, and expressive journaling that speaks gently to your inner world. Not long ago, I stood in a gallery in Warsaw, watching Andrea Fraserâs short films. One piece showed the flood of mass tourism through sacred spaces â crowds moving shoulder to shoulder, guided by headsets, eyes...
READ POSTCreate your next chapter from the inside out
about 1 month ago â˘Â 2 min readThe Journaling Muse â Issue #16: Your Inner Seasons A soft space to reflect, reconnect, and create with feeling. Dear Reader, There are seasons in natureâand seasons within us. Lately, Iâve found myself in a quiet kind of spring. Not the bright bloom of instant change, but something deeper: a shift in the soil. A re-rooting. For the past two weeks, Iâve been immersed in Dr. Joe Dispenzaâs meditationsâsoftly but steadily transforming. His work invites us to become aware of unconscious habits,...
READ POSTWhat if you treated yourself like someone you love?
about 2 months ago â˘Â 2 min readThe Journaling Muse â Issue #15 Creativity as a Core Practice of Self-Love A soft space to reflect, reconnect, and create with feeling.My mission is simple:to help you slow down, explore your inner world, and unlock your creativity through color, texture, and gentle self-expression. Dear Reader, How often do we cruelly judge ourselvesâwithout even noticing? We rush through our days, pushing through tiredness, ignoring thirst, and silencing small aches.We prioritize everyone else's needs, and...
READ POSTFeeling stuck? Start here.
about 2 months ago â˘Â 2 min readThe Journaling MuseâIssue #14 Unlocking Your Creative PotentialA soft space to reflect, reconnect, and create with feeling.My mission is simple: to help you slow down, explore your inner world, and unlock your creativity through color, texture, and gentle self-expression. Dear Reader, Creative blocks are a part of every journeyâgentle or intense, long or fleeting. They whisper things like:âYou donât have time.ââYouâre not good enough.ââThis doesnât matter.â But hereâs the quiet truth:You...
READ POSTWhat if play is exactly what you need this Easter? - Happy Easter!
2 months ago â˘Â 2 min read⨠Welcome to The Journaling Muse â Issue #13 The Power of Play A soft space to reflect, reconnect, and create with feeling.My mission is simple: to help you slow down, explore your inner world, and unlock your creativity through colour and gentle self-expression. Dear Reader Thereâs a moment in creative life when something shifts:You stop trying to get it rightâand start letting it be fun. This week, I want to invite you back to that place. The one that doesnât care about technique, outcome,...
READ POSTWhy I always had paint on my forehead?
2 months ago â˘Â 1 min readThe Journal Muse #12: Permission to Be Messy Let go of perfection. Invite in freedom. Dear Reader, When I first started painting in an art studio, I was always the one with paint on my forehead, on my fingertips, even in my hair. I looked around and saw others somehow staying clean and composed. So I tried to stay tidy tooâmore focused, more contained. But the moment I dipped into the flow, I forgot everything. Even my coffee sat untouched, cooling beside me. It turns out, mess is my...
READ POSTWhere joy goes, creativity follows
3 months ago â˘Â 2 min readThe Journal Muse #11: A Date With Your Creative Self Reconnect with your inner artist through joy, curiosity, and a little time just for you. Dear Reader, Sometimes, unlocking your creativity doesnât happen on the pageâit happens when youâre walking in the woods with no destination. Or buying a ridiculous stuffed animal just because it made you smile. Or sitting in a cafĂŠ with a book and nowhere else to be. This week, I want to invite you to something gentle, powerful, and possibly a little...
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