I always do a “currently” page at the beginning of every journal, I enjoy going back later and seeing what I was into at the moment. Great way to get over the first page scariness.
I absolutely loved seeing your process. I still use your method of making an index. Sometimes, as a part of breaking in a new notebook, I like to dye random pages in it using tea or coffee, it makes it feel less daunting to me. Also I don't know if this counts as a suggestion, but I think it'd be lovely to hear you talk about the books you've read so far this year or some fall recommendations if you're feeling up to it! Hope you have a wonderful day!
I’m going through something pretty intense that I am kicking myself for not journaling about from the beginning. Thanks for sharing that journaling doesn’t have to start at the beginning or end of a life event. I needed this!
yes!! sometimes I ''fall behind" in writing about what's going on in my life, and even though It's nice to have things in chronological order, I still try to not keep myself from writing about what's going on in the current moment because I know I'll be bummed to have missed writing about that stuff later! this happened to me now... I still have stuff to journal about from this summer but I'm still writing about things going on now. Even if my summer entries are "late" I'll still appreciate them AND appreciate having the entries from when I was "behind" in writing about them... does that make sense?
@@itsabelletime perfect sense! I think that’s awesome that you can push yourself to keep writing no matter what. It can definitely be difficult to do if it’s not already a steady practice. And when you do write about the good summer memories, they’ll be extra special entires because you may be writing from a nostalgic point of view.
I have gotten into the habit of putting a picture of myself at the start of the journal. I just print a selfie with my sprocket. It captures hair growth, mood of the moment, type of glasses I wear, and just what I look like at the start of the journal. When I look back at older journals I read what I wrote and see that young face and it brings me a lot of love and patience for past me.
I have never felt intimidated when starting a new journal. I just put the day of the week, the date, time & start writing. Maybe I continue what I was writing about in the journal I just finished. ....but not always. I have journaled for 45 1/2 years.
I remember how a few years back you inspired me to start writing (happened to have a difficult loss happen RIGHT after I found your channel). I've been writing on and off since! This video is a lovely peek into your process, and I'm so happy you're back. Thank you for doing what you do - and for being you.
I had put journaling down for a while and then picked it back up this summer, trying to sort out some heavy life stuff. You reappeared only a couple of weeks after I did. ❤️ So glad to see you back. Your encouragement is invaluable. Also, I love my Lamy too!!!
I still get giddy when I see you’ve posted!! I remember a video of yours where you mentioned that your brain resets in September with the start of the school year. I just finished my first week of my senior year of college and that idea has been really resonating with me over the last few days. Also, you should check out Sharon Olds’s poetry! She describes womanhood and experiences through different stages of life so beautifully, and she also uses a good bit of nature imagery/really evocative imagery in general.
I'm so glad you're back Tina!! Missed your videos so much, for some reason I thought I wouldn't be able to find your channel again and I wasn't expecting new uploads after three years lol welcome back!
Great Video. Very inspiring. My catalog suggestion is what you are already doing, washi tape. That is how I catalog my pages. As for the poem…wow what a great fit. As you read that it was perfect and what you had just got done talking about. I am about to start a new journal. I have new journal phobia so when I am about 20 pages away, I buy the new journal and then about 10 pages away I start the process of trying to write in the first page. It NEVER happens. LOL I always start on the 5th page. I used to start on the 3rd and found that I never had room for my information and the index. I indexed at the end for a very long time until I saw someone index in the front and that blew my mind. I had never heard of such a thing. I love learning new things. Thanks for sharing!
I am SO happy you're back filming! You have completely re-sparked my interest in journaling again!!! It's been a couple of years since I actually journaled and I've forgotten how much I missed it. Going to start TODAY!!! Thanks for the inspiration and welcome back! xoxo Joanne
It is so comforting to me . . . to hear words that reflect my feelings . . . to realize that others share in my thoughts! I am entirely similar to your “number” plan . . . I love to use a stencil, as well, a sense of order . . . ahhh. Thank you for sharing!
I do the same quote thing on the first page! (Or inside cover) It's either from a book or a song lyric that's resonated with me. I tend to decide on them *before* starting the journal... in an ideal situation, I'd look back on the finished journal and add in a quote that best encapsulates my life during that time... but I'm always thinking multiple steps ahead!!!
I’m so happy to hear that you’re a big reader! So am I! There’s almost always that correlation, isn’t there? Writers are usually also readers. Mary Oliver’s Devotions was the first book of poetry I ever read. Though I like to write things akin to poetry, I actually really dislike reading it - UNTIL I discovered Mary Oliver. My soul fell for hers and now I devour anything by her! I grew up about an hour and a half from where she grew up, so I feel even more of a connection to her.
Beautiful reading of beautiful words! Such an inspiration! I have missed you, so glad you’re back!! I am also a uniform color ink girl through out my journals!!
It's so good to have you back! ❤️ I found your channel about 2 years ago when i was considering keeping a journal for the first time and your videos inspired me so much that i went for it and haven't stopped since then. And then, a few months ago i was diagnosed with generalized anxiety and again i found your video about keeping an anxiety journal and it's helped me so much, so thank you. I'd love to see a video of you talking about the benefits of using paper instead of digital tools to journal, write to do lists, work-related stuff (also your teacher's notebook idea helped me A TON cuz I'm also a teacher hahaa) and why you still use paper instead of apps, researches that prove writing by hand is better than typing... Stuff like this :))
At the moment, I have a journal going, a school bujo, and a real life planner and yet in each of them I always skip the first few pages LOL It's so nice to hear your voice!! Keep on spreading your beautiful creative fire!
I would be super interested in monthly reading wrap-up videos from you if that's something you'd like to do. When my last journal was coming to the end, I went and picked out a new notebook and then every few pages I painted with a pastel matte acrylic paint. By the time that was done, the notebook was real broke in, let me tell you. But I really enjoy those painted pages because they feel like a great spot to highlight a quote or mantra, or to set goals. They just feel like a moment to take a breath and write really big feature words that are big to me at the moment.
I love your videos! You're really the most inspiring person that does journaling I have found ove rate years, I always come back your your videos haha! I would love to see an updated journal collection since you have changed set ups and stuff over the years, it would be super cool to see!
I am so glad your back! I look forward to your video's. You are real, which I love!! Yes you have helped me to know that there is no wrong way to journal, I use to journal alot when I was younger, but now I don't but need to start up again, it's like a knawing in my spirit to do it again. I have found that sometimes my journal is my best friend, it doesn't judge me. Oh and the word you were looking for, for your stickers are transparent. Ha! Ha! I love green too! Take care! Thank you for being back!!! :0)
Thank you for this. I'm about to start a new journal and these extra ideas are very inspiring. I'd be interested in knowing what you're reading or your favourite books. I'll definitely be picking up that Mary Oliver book, it sounds beautiful. So happy to see you posting again.
I have a royal blue pocket size Leuchtturm1917 that I am going to be starting when my new Travelers Notebook comes. I ordered a pocket size Avalon Express Cascade from Chic Sparrow. It is a gorgeous tropical ocean green color in a soft leather. I cant wait to get it.
Girl! I learned from you to break in a new journal by touching all the pages and now it’s something I always do! It feels like a sacred bonding ritual. And that green, swoon. Mary Oliver is one of my favorites (yet her Devotion book is actually one of my least favorite pieces she’s written).. her poem The Summer Day inspired my whole wild sexy life mission. LOL. I would so love to hear more about your reading practice/books. Your videos feel like breath to me!
So glad that you're back. Feels like forever. You were the reason i started journaling 4 years ago! Thank you for this video, ive always had a hard time switching to a new journal. My favorite videos of yours to watch were your year journal collection flip throughs, do you plan on finishing those? If not thats fine, so glad to have you back
Hi Tina! Do you still keep a bullet journal or another planner? If you still do, please make a video about it. P.s your comeback to utube helped me through post-covid recovery. Greetings from Russia
Each step of your new journal process is like a magical ritual! I love the physical connection to each page, and the serendipity of the quote (which was so perfect!). Also in older videos it wasn’t a Tina journal unless it had a pocket of love letters in the back. I’m curious if you still do that, or if that belongs to the past? 💚
I wonder if that’s a good sign! A sign that the love and happiness in your life is more tangible now and doesn’t need to be sought and captured on paper 💚
yay!! I'm actually just about to transition out my summer journal now that the school year has started :) my next one is going to be one I got at my colleges bookstore for school spirit!
How lovely to learn of your passion for reading 📚! I too am a voracious reader and Mary Oliver's writing ✍ made its way into my life roughly a decade ago. Her poetry is quite special to me. I was devastated when she passed away. I will never forget reading an interview she had given in which she was asked "What is your favorite word?" Her response: "Mirth." I felt that was a rather unique choice. I certainly feel mirthful watching this channel. A few suggestions from a lover of poetry: Galway Kinnell, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and Amanda Gorman! I often include resonant, moving poems that speak to my soul at the moment on the very beginning page of a new journal. Most recently, the poem "As Ever" by Joanne Kyger. Its last stanza is particularly arresting. I have a feeling you will find it to be brimming with meaning 💚
Thank you for the suggestions! Do you know where I can find As Ever by itself? I googled it but I can only see her collection - not the individual poem
@@OverallAdventures I realize this response is quite delayed. My sincere apologies. I am not sure why Kyger's poems seem harder to read now online as they were not that way before. 🤔 I saved an excerpt from "As Ever" and it reads: Time of wonder on how it goes together And pausing to see The same landscape only changed by progression of time. Waiting to be moved by the impulses of heaven. To have the chance funnel descend Into the grassy bird lit day. And so much talk of the heart And the breath is nothing if not practiced in This helter skelter In this wondering wound. So much sorrow winds around me ridiculously. This sweet refuge Of home won't give up, is compounded of hard objects, of floating mind, shelter, walls. Tin hearted memories, chemicals. We fight incredibly through a hideous mish mash of inheritance, forgiving for deeper stamina. That we go on, the world always goes on, breaking us with its changes until our form, exhausted, runs true.
I use a label maker on the outside/inside of my notebooks to number them, and on the inside I use a label for the day I started and ended, along with a color-coded smaller label to number which journal of that year it is. I also write the year in a color-coded sharpie on the top and bottom outside pages, so I can tell when I look at a journal which year it’s from, without having to open it up to see. 💜
Oufff watching this video is challenging because now all I want to do is start a new journal, but I have probably 150 pages left of my current one! 😅 I love the army green color! I’m also used to A5 notebooks, but that pocket size looks less intimidating… I think I might give it a try! Thank you again for your videos!! 🙏
I got a new journal one time when I was hanging out with my friends and I had them draw or write whatever they wanted limited to the first two pages, it was a great way to start a new journal and a fun thing to do. So if you really can't start a new journal have someone start it for you!
I just recently discovered your channel and absolutely love it!!!! I have been journaling since I was in elementary school (I'm now in my late 40s, but let's not dwell on that!). Have you made any videos about books on journaling? I have tons of books on journaling, although most are currently in storage as I'm living abroad right now. I would love to exchange thoughts on books we journalers have found most inspiring (or not), in in what ways.
I DNF’d a journal today and it felt so freeing. It was a huge journal and I don’t write consistently so its first entry was in summer 2019. filling it up felt like a chore so i started a new journal and feel much freer.
I loved this video! You inspired me to purchase a copy of the Mary Oliver book. Also, LOVE your earrings! Where are they from? I love the idea of using the first blank page by writing a quote or a poem or something like that. Ready to try it when my new journal arrives!
I really like the idea of using an index and filling one journal after the next instead of using multiple at once. I think I will extract bits that fall under a certain topic and put them in another journal at the end, in order to have somewhere to see all development on that topic. I personally have the patience and time to do that, and really like having all writing of one topic in one place.
I’m so glad I came upon your video today! I love your intentionality and thoughtfulness. It’s a great reminder to create and enjoy beauty in our lives. Would you mind letting me know where I can find Rocco (?) journals??
Here is the website of the store I used to get them from in Qatar - but I'm not sure how it would work with shipping! www.jarir.com/sa-en/shopby?brand=239206&cat=4&ptyp=81325
Do you ever use thinner books? Like pocket moleskine cahiers and field notes? I like the pocket size but I go through them in a week or so. 😆 Also, are you doing Nanowrimo this year?
I have a few field notes notebooks but I also go through them wayyy too quickly and don't love stapled journals! I definitely go through pocket size books wayy faster but I'm craving a more compact size lately - spent most of my life in A5 and even bigger but I'm loving the compact/travel size of a pocket! More to come on this topic
@@OverallAdventures Lovely :) I like stapled and stitched ones, even in A5. With pocket I've just found that I need to carry a couple more in my suitcase, if I'm going on a trip. xD I used to follow your channel and I'm happy you're back and doing well.
Writing in a new notebook always overwhelmed me so I decided that I was going to start my journaling habit by writing in a notebook that already had stuff in it. I’m now a month into journaling and I’m really happy that I started but kinda regretting it coz now my journal collection is going to have notes in at the start
I tried only writing on the right page of my journal, about 300 pages so far. When I reached the end of the journal, I flipped it around and continued writing on the right page. It's confusing to look at. still, I date each entry.
What are your thoughts on the roco brand because I live in the middle east so it’s everywhere I’m thinking of trying it out is it good with fountain pens?
You are adorable! I just found you and then subscribed. Your voice is so soothing. Love hearing you as it feels like i am sitting here with you and we are conversing You journal alot, since this says your journal is in the #70s, i assume you journal daily. What do you think about to write? Do you write in the AM or PM? Do you use prompts? Do you just write about what you did during the day? What keeps you journaling? I tend to journal when i have deep thoughts but it isnt daily and id like to write each day. . Maybe you have another video on this. Ill keep looking
Whenever I try to open up to my journal (writing honest thoughts) I feel like I can’t write it down, it feels so intimidating and I always stop. And then no writing for months. I don’t know If I am scared of somebody reading and misunderstanding it or else.. Could you give me some tips? Have you ever dealt with this before?
Yes! It's Roco - here's the website, but I'm not sure what it is like with international shipping :) www.jarir.com/sa-en/shopby?brand=239206&cat=4&ptyp=81325
Here's the link to the Roco brand on Amazon - but this notebook was purchased in Qatar (Jarir bookstore) so maybe that will help! www.amazon.sa/-/en/Roco/b/ref=bl_dp_s_web_18132010031?ie=UTF8&node=18132010031&field-lbr_brands_browse-bin=Roco
Yes! Here's the website www.jarir.com/sa-en/shopby?brand=239206&cat=4&ptyp=81325 **but it's based in Qatar and I have nooo idea how to order outside of the Middle East
