Take a Tour of 30-Plus Years of Journals! | My Journaling Practice Part 1 

This was fun! I admire your perseverance as a child and teen; I tried journaling for years but could never seem to keep up a consistent writing habit. 2022 was the first year that I filled a page-per-day notebook and I’m so glad it has finally “stuck”! Would love to see more journaling content from you.

OMG those Costco four-packs 😂 A throwback!!!! I had the very same ones. Gave them out as party favors one year. Thank you for sharing 💜

You've been journalling for as long as I've been alive, and I cannot describe the admiration I felt watching this video. I felt butterflies in my stomach, believe it or not! Thank you so much for sharing this!! I don't have _individual_ journals to look back on, but my husband and I did write a few journals that we exchanged back and forth when we were teens. We were entirely too cheesy though... Lol

This was great, I always enjoy seeing journals. You have such a lot of them and in so many different formats. What a wonderful record to have. (I can't wait for part two!)

Aw! We are the same age 💚 I’m trying to imagine what it would be like to have journalled from 12 years old. I got rid of my kid diaries a long time ago, because they embarrassed me so much 🤦‍♀️ I use Canon Ivy pics in my journals too 💚

Loved this so hard! Tori Amos stickers: YAS👏🏻 Can't wait for part 2 💜💚🖤

I absolutely loved this! Loved that you titled the volumes, that you’ve kept them since you were 12, the nerdiness, Tori Amos. Just ❤. This makes me want to pull out my memory boxes from storage where the journals and diaries from my youth live. Did you ever have a live journal back in the day?

Yes please to the nerdy pen thoughts! I am ALWAYS down to talk about stationary. I have also been journaling on and off since my very early teens (I wonder if it is an introvert thing 😊). I haven’t done any kind of regular free form journaling for a while but I really want you get back to it this year and this was so inspiring. I am so jealous that you have all your journals to look back on. I am considering buying a little printer for printing photos for my bullet journal, will have to have a look at the canon ivy.

PENSSSS!! Yes a pen video please please please! (peepin' the twsbi diamond 580...dying to know what ink you've got in there....haha pun!) What a fun wander down memory road....journals in the 90's and the 2000's were really something else, viscerally remembering the extremely breakable lock on the front of the diaries. I love that you've kept them all to look back on (omg the floppies!) I had a habit of what I now would call ritually burning them a year or so after they were complete. But I was a pretty angry or maybe more emotional kid, so knowing it was best to release that schtuff back into the universe was something I caught on to pretty early. This was so fun! Thanks so much for sharing Sarah and I can't wait till part II. xx

Great video. I’m looking forward to part 2. I’m locked in the “I don’t journal” closet - shameful! (a collective gasp from the whole tarot tuber community). It just feels like homework to me, and I’m more of a visual learner. I did buy a tarot planner this year (writual society) - I’m a bit lax with daily draws, but I have done a year ahead, and the month ahead spread. They may be fun to look back on, I suppose. Your years of journaling practice is very impressive! ☺️🌅🌿

Wow -- it's amazing you have access to all those journals --- keys to your life. In my most recent move I discovered a folder under a drawer lining with a bunch of stuff I'd written in my wild youth. I was surprised to find out I apparently was reading tarot in the late '70s and early '80s. I don't remember it at all.

Love this video! I laughed out loud when you said yes debate camp!!!! Love that so much. Yes, it’s really wonderful to have a beautiful journal with high quality paper and a lovely pen to write with, but honestly I find I can journal just fine with my spiral bound journal and Bic pen (has to be medium point cannot write with fine point!!! And I buy the pack with multiple color choices!!!) I also volumize journals, but by the year. So Volume I 2023 then Volume II etc. I can’t believe you have ALL of your journals from your whole life!!! That is so impressive!!!! I’m truly afraid to start using fountain pens…. I absolutely do not need another thing to get addicted to!!!! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

I'm here for nerdy pen musings, please. I'm at the beginning of my fountain pen journey, so far so romantic. Thanks for sharing your journal journey. 30 yrs. Have you re-read any of them?

This was so fun to watch! I’ve similarly experimented with different types of journals over decades but not even as close to disciplined as you were with completing them before moving on to the next. LOL 😂 I have a lot of journals half finished. I also had a huge gap where I didn’t journal anymore and looking back wish I did. 😢 I’ve now adopted something simpler with less pressure for journaling… I have a flat laying 8 1/2 by 11 calendar with just enough equal space for all 7 days of the week. Sometimes I journal personal stuff and sometimes I put in sticker pictures to mark the day if I don’t have time to journal and sometimes put in a reading if it fits but after sticking with it for 6 months I’ve taken another break. I wish I could journal every day of my life. I still have some waiting to be filled. Do you notice as you get older hands cramping while writing and writing slower? I’ve noticed which makes it extra difficult to journal. Looking forward to seeing more!

Thank you so much for sharing your journal collection ! ❤️ The sheer amount of insights you must have is out of this world 🙂 I'm in a similar situation. Not so much for insights but unusual meanings for cards, a bit like an out of the box dictionary. If I may ask, how do you actually put to use what you wrote down ? My feeling is that there's so much I don't remember and might be useful but rereading 24 copybooks is not feasible at this point in my life ...