Welcome to The Sacred Pen
I started writing when I was 15. It started with poems and songs in spiral notebooks. By my mid high
years I began writing my life as I was experiencing it, moving on to feelings. Yuck, you might say-feelings? Yes, feelings and I began dumping them onto the paper in no sorted or organized manner and with no goal. I don't think I ever resolved anything during those years of journal writing, but it did help to manage my emotions. As the years moved on I began to work in more sophisticate, beautiful journals and not only was I expressing feelings, but I was trying to learn how to move through them and live a more fulfilled life. I also used journals to reflect on my goals and how I might make them a reality. My writing expanded into endless accounts of my life and I began realizing how that one small practice was changing my life. I am so passionate about this practice and it brings me so much joy I found myself wanting to create my own journals. Journals that I would love to use. And so it began, and here I am.
years I began writing my life as I was experiencing it, moving on to feelings. Yuck, you might say-feelings? Yes, feelings and I began dumping them onto the paper in no sorted or organized manner and with no goal. I don't think I ever resolved anything during those years of journal writing, but it did help to manage my emotions. As the years moved on I began to work in more sophisticate, beautiful journals and not only was I expressing feelings, but I was trying to learn how to move through them and live a more fulfilled life. I also used journals to reflect on my goals and how I might make them a reality. My writing expanded into endless accounts of my life and I began realizing how that one small practice was changing my life. I am so passionate about this practice and it brings me so much joy I found myself wanting to create my own journals. Journals that I would love to use. And so it began, and here I am.
Why I Journal?
When I write my words, thoughts and felling onto the page, my heart releases . It is the place to be authentic, true and aware. As I move through sadness and grief, the raw, unfiltered feelings can take shape. Never to you have to worry about having questionable thoughts or explorations It is your heartbeat. When grief is fully explored, it emerges as joy.
One might say, "I don't like to write." You need to write all the more. Not wanting to write is not wanting to feel. Not wanting to feel is not wanting to change. Without change there is no freedom.
One might say, "I don't like to write." You need to write all the more. Not wanting to write is not wanting to feel. Not wanting to feel is not wanting to change. Without change there is no freedom.
Why should you journal?There are many ways to journal, song lyrics, poems, narratives, napkin-writing at the local diner, and mental journaling-stopping each day to reflect on the events of your day. No one is required to journal in any form, unless you crave freedom and change from your present circumstances. I would not be writing this so passionately if journaling had not saved my life. It was from journaling that I wrote my first book, Losing My Breath, from loss to transformation. But it didn't stop there. Journaling brought me life in so many way.
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FREEDOM
A journal is the place to release yourself from the thoughts that keep you captive, the ruminating of the mind. Leave it her, in your journal.
HEALING
Grief, sadness. We try to figure out how to be appropriate and socially acceptable in our times of loss. Your journal is the place to be totally inappropriate, to have your own experience.
HEALTH
We hold onto so many hidden emotions. Emotions we often don't even recognize are there. Unresolved emotions, thoughts and feelings infest our body, manifesting in may types of illness.
BETTER RELATIONSHIPS
Write before you react. Dissect your feelings. Dump your honest feelings. The right fro the perspective of the other person-then go talk.
WORK
Writing will create better job conditions for yourself. When your co-worker does that thing that infuriates you, but you know a quick reaction will lead to an uncomfortable, or even toxic, work environment. Write first, dump it onto the pages of your journal. Write out your experience, write the experience of the other person. Look through their window. Take a deep dive into why you were so triggered by the situation. Was it respect, crossing your boundaries, a comment that made you feel unworthy. Get it out.
POEMS AND SONGS
Is there song inside you? Is it easier to write poetry rather than a long narrative? Carry your journal with you. Jot down the inspiration that stirs inside your soul.
BECOMING FEARLESS
This is my thing. I have pages in journals dedicated to becoming a courageous warrior. I wish I could say it was a one-stop journal entry, but I revisit it often and it is like a friend that moves me from paralysis to freedom.
MESSAGES
Messages are all around us. Help is available to us at all times, but we often don't seek it or access this wisdom. Whatever name you give to your divine helpers, your journal is the place to ask your questions. When help comes, you have a place to record your experience.
EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Is there that one thing that you are intrigued by, but your collection of notes is less than helpful. Get it organized in a journal. I am presently learning about how to use wild plants as medicine and survival. After listening to podcasts and reading and jotting down notes on random pieces of paper, I decided to create the Plant Journal. Now I have a place to record and draw what I learn and it's all together in one place.
YOUR AUTHENTIC FABRIC
Do you live your life according to what's relevant to everyone else? Do you truly know what the fibers and threads of your own make-up are? Start right everything that lights you up...and doesn't. What is it that you need to move through life with authenticity and vitality. What is your gift to yourself and to the world. Find your treasure. You may say, "yes, I really want to know that, but I'm not sure who I really am. You may want to grab your journal and take the BURIED TREASURE class offered on this website, .
CREATIVITY
A journal is the place to release yourself from the thoughts that keep you captive, the ruminating of the mind. Leave it her, in your journal.
HEALING
Grief, sadness. We try to figure out how to be appropriate and socially acceptable in our times of loss. Your journal is the place to be totally inappropriate, to have your own experience.
HEALTH
We hold onto so many hidden emotions. Emotions we often don't even recognize are there. Unresolved emotions, thoughts and feelings infest our body, manifesting in may types of illness.
BETTER RELATIONSHIPS
Write before you react. Dissect your feelings. Dump your honest feelings. The right fro the perspective of the other person-then go talk.
WORK
Writing will create better job conditions for yourself. When your co-worker does that thing that infuriates you, but you know a quick reaction will lead to an uncomfortable, or even toxic, work environment. Write first, dump it onto the pages of your journal. Write out your experience, write the experience of the other person. Look through their window. Take a deep dive into why you were so triggered by the situation. Was it respect, crossing your boundaries, a comment that made you feel unworthy. Get it out.
POEMS AND SONGS
Is there song inside you? Is it easier to write poetry rather than a long narrative? Carry your journal with you. Jot down the inspiration that stirs inside your soul.
BECOMING FEARLESS
This is my thing. I have pages in journals dedicated to becoming a courageous warrior. I wish I could say it was a one-stop journal entry, but I revisit it often and it is like a friend that moves me from paralysis to freedom.
MESSAGES
Messages are all around us. Help is available to us at all times, but we often don't seek it or access this wisdom. Whatever name you give to your divine helpers, your journal is the place to ask your questions. When help comes, you have a place to record your experience.
EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Is there that one thing that you are intrigued by, but your collection of notes is less than helpful. Get it organized in a journal. I am presently learning about how to use wild plants as medicine and survival. After listening to podcasts and reading and jotting down notes on random pieces of paper, I decided to create the Plant Journal. Now I have a place to record and draw what I learn and it's all together in one place.
YOUR AUTHENTIC FABRIC
Do you live your life according to what's relevant to everyone else? Do you truly know what the fibers and threads of your own make-up are? Start right everything that lights you up...and doesn't. What is it that you need to move through life with authenticity and vitality. What is your gift to yourself and to the world. Find your treasure. You may say, "yes, I really want to know that, but I'm not sure who I really am. You may want to grab your journal and take the BURIED TREASURE class offered on this website, .
CREATIVITY
