The art of journaling

Recently I was clearing out some of my old things and I stumbled across my old journal. Now I've only ever had one journal in my life and its full from the start to the end of art and words from the heart. I started my journal at a particularly hard time in my life, I started it because when my mental health was at its all time low I generally felt like I had no one to talk to about it so I wrote down how I felt in the A5 pages. Most of the time the pages would be full of endless talks to myself about what my true feelings were or sometimes I would just use a few words to describe how I truly felt. I felt like my journal was my own councillor as it helped me to get all of my thoughts out.

One day I decided to send off a scan of one of my drawings in my journal to an art blog I was obsessed with called 'messy heads' to my surprise they actually posted the image on their blog. I didn't feel like my journal was a secret anymore but I was completely fine with that I. So yeah I feel like everyone should own a journal at some point whether its for odd messages to yourself or whether you feel like writing your life story in it, use them to store your mind. Now as I look back at my journal I see pages of a young girl who is incredibly lost and wants to find herself and uses her creative mindset to point her in the right direction.