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January 14: Journaling as Therapy

Here is mine!



Credits:
Rachel Jefferies | Lynn Grieveson Hear My Voice Learning
Rachel Jefferies | Lynn Grieveson Hear My Voice Questioning (let it teach you word art)

Journaling:
These pictures were taken before I started school at the University of San Diego in the Fall of 1982. I did not want to go to college. I did not want to leave home. I was way too dependent on my Mom and she knew it. She forced me to go to college because she knew I needed it. She did all my entrance paperwork and kept me on the ball to apply. I only did it because she wanted it for me so badly. This day was me seeing where I would be living and acquainting myself with the school. The day finally came and I drove with my parents with a sick stomach and squelching the fear and the tears in my eyes. When they left me, I never felt more desolate in my life up to that time. As time went on and I made friends, I learned to like school and the fun times that were to come. Looking back on that experience, my Mom knew exactly what I needed, and I learned a big lesson: That I could take care of myself, and I was not a little girl anymore. I learned that you need to do things that you don’t want to or don’t think you can do because they are the right thing to do and you will find the strength you need to do them. Looking back now on this experience, going to college was life-changing for me. I grew up there and came home a woman. Soon I would face more adversity, but college helped me grow up to know that I would be okay and that the sun will continue to rise each day.
 

Journaling if you can't read it:
I’m not sure why I’ve just come to the realization that we have a few years left with Hayden at home- but it scares the crap out of me! She is excelling at anything she puts her mind to & I love watching her thrive. I only hope that we’ve given (and can still teach her) enough tools so when she’s on her own, she can soar! And in the meantime, I’m going to cherish every minute we have left with her here at home! §
 
Wonderful challenge and some of the pages are just so wonderful and evocative.
I love 'art' as therapy and recently I have been taking my quilting skills to the next level and I find it so therapeutic. It has helped my anxiety a lot. Journaling is very much the same and I am a physical art journaler and I love the paint messy expressions of my mind!

 
I've made two really heavy layouts this week already, decided to make a happier layout for this challenge.

Translation:
It's always fun to go on a trip. To see new places and experience new things. But what I actually love the most about going on a roadtrip is the tame we spend in the car. When you sit there, in the cae, there's nothing else to do, you just sit where you are. Most of the time, we're happy and excited about what we will do when we get to our destination. At the same time, it's a time of freedom. No demands, no stress. If we get hungry, we stop and eat. If we see something nice along the way, we stop and see. When we are there, together, during a long trip, we have so much time to talk. It can be pure nonsense, but often we get into deep things, both about the two of us, but also about the world. In a way, it's just there in the car, that we are alon, and have time to be together, and talk to eachother.
 
Thank you for thist great challenge, Robin.
I'm not usually the scrapper who puts a lot of journaling on the pages and I always find journaling challenges exhausting for me. It was different with this one. The lack of guidelines (such as a certain number of words, or sharing my innermost thoughts publicly, if I wanted, I could have made it illegible) has set me free. I was able to write from the heart and it felt so good. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for that.
In my journaling I wrote about my father-in-law's dementia and our life with it. It's written in german, my native language.

 
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My journaling was too private but I messaged it to you!
 
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