Journaling: 1.Creating Your New Earth
I have used journaling for decades to help me frame a new download or see some drama or trauma in its true light.
As Mia says, “It’s really a transference of energy from within your body to a page”, and I agree.
Getting it outside of your body where you can look at it and organize it- really analyze it’s origins and what it is there to help you see about your life, your experiences, makes journaling a great tool for your SELF CARE KIT.
Not to mention how many adorable journals you can find at book stores or even spend time making super personal ones from scratch- that’s another section of this tool in the form of ART THERAPY!
Back in 2020 just as the world we all knew was fast becoming unrecognizable, I was doing some deep work on changing my life and transforming my perspective.
I was having a difficult time in my job and with my boss.
I was really feeling down on myself and believing I was less than, believing I was not good enough to be a successful interior designer- really struggling with my confidence.
Even though I had been in the realm of “awareness” for years at this point, I was pretty down and lost in the Abandoned Child archetype.
Like ALL OF US, I flow back and forth between the positive and the negative, Highs and Lows of everyday life, caught betwixt and between the polarity of being human on this polarized earthly plane.
It is in these low times I turn to journaling.
I love finding old journals and reading through all the sorrow and troublesome times I survived and following the discoveries I made along the way that opened my heart and mind to the new path before me.
Sometimes I’m stunned at the clarity I found and the beautiful way I was able to express my journey- privately and for myself and my Highest Self.
This is the first entry of some of these nuggets I find hidden in my journals that I want to start sharing with you.
For those who are on a rocky or poorly lit path at the moment, I offer these insights and discoveries as a lamp from a fellow traveler.
(This is a mantra for you to use and share whenever and wherever it helps the most.)
-Sometime in 2020-
“The time is now for change and enlightenment.
For awakening my highest potentials that have been buried and hidden beneath years and a lifetime of forgotten power and magnificence.
The time for all of my beauty and talent and abundance to come forth from the dusty old unkempt cupboard and shine in this New Earth I am creating.
It is time now, to be who I am meant to be, to accept the gifts and the abundance that is out there for me, with my name on it.
And to release fully- without hesitation, the old ways and dysfunctions I’ve let bind me and keep me tied down in the lower realms of this human experience. (victimhood)
I’m done with the old and I’m in the new and amazing ME for the rest of my time here.
I will use my gifts to teach people every chance I get. “
May your light shine through the shadows
May your days be filled with joy and gratitude
For gratitude is the key to compassion.
Much love- Stephanie
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