watching this video while eating my lukewarm deli salad and stimming with my deck of cards has been the highlight of my day. i also hit a curb on my way home from work today. this is all going in my journal.
My old therapist once told me that i should have an outlet for my thoughts and feelings and i told her i had my journal, my paintings, my art and she said “no, i mean.. friends” and i was like “wtf, girlie”
I would understand if you wanted to expand your social circle or social skills even, but to advocate to use people as "a outlet for" your thoughts and feelings is basically using people as a sponge rather than human beings. Obviously people bond by word vomiting and gossiping about their life but I don't understand why your therapist would advocate to have friends as to use them as a outlet for your thoughts and feelings.
@@Elena-Studio i think maybe you took it in a wrong way. i think what the therapist meant is having people to talk to is better than being cacooned in your room/space/bubble and just doing things on your own. if you have friends for years, you venting your problems doesn't make them sponges coz they'll do the same with you abt their problems. it gets naturally reciprocated. and obviously i don't think the therapist told them to give up on hobbies but prioritise people.
@@thatqueeroverthere8807 i agree. and i think it's a bit extreme to say that this advice immediately encourages you to "use other people as sponges". true friends will share your sadness and joys with you, you can trust them and you can lean on them. that said. i hope you guys end up finding healing regardless of what form you choose your outlet to be. i do both -- art, journaling, notebooks and talking to friends -- and its helping a lot for me. we'll make it through this!
genuinely for a second thought you were going to read your journal out loud to the internet and I was like omg ur so fucking brave, I was strapped in and scared. aside from that, im one of the people who has a hard time journaling because I can never write as fast as my thoughts come in and a lot of the stuff I write in moments like that never make sense when reading them back. junk journaling is my go to tho, receipts, a leaf, flower, stickers, it’s a way for me to get a glimpse at my days through items that are often seen as trash
Imagine how mad I was when I was crossing the Canadian border and our car got searched. The officer grabbed my journal and stood there reading my journal for 10 mins imagine the rage I was in
WHAT 😭 HN they were just being nosy asf what would they need to read it for???
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i used to only journal when i was going through awful shit so when i look at my high school journals it’s all terrorist attacks - zayn leaving 1d - my crush being in love with my bestie - and on and on with no coherence or sense of scale lmfao. now i daily journal, i do a morning brain dump where i talk abt the day before and do a little to do list of what im hoping i get done. was supposed to go to the tailor today but im not biking under that kind of rain. my actual favourite way to journal tho is voice notes, i have a 30mn voice note i recorded right before i turned 25 that makes me cry everytime i listen to it. it’s weird because i don’t feel like how i used to feel so it’s like listening to an actor say really hard things in this super emotional ways… sometimes i don’t recognize my past self. that’s the freakiest thing with journaling it’s like a trace of who you used to be. and in a more nebulous way there’s a 12 year old archive of everything i used to love online and that’s weird as well. whats a digital footprint again…don’t know! we leave traces of us all the time, youtube is def a beautiful outlet for that
It was embarrassing because I was all sad about a guy in my journal and the tsa man asked “who’s this??” pointing to the name of the guy in my journal and I said just some guy I had been seeing.I didn’t know if I should have refused to answer I was scared. And he was like oh okay.I have no idea if he was just being nosy or if he wanted to accuse me of something but I was so scared I had study books to learn Arabic and French too and he asked what languages they were and looked through them a little too but he mostly just stood there and read at least 2/3 of my journal in the additional screening section and then sent me on my way idk if this is a common thing that happens when they “randomly select” people for screening
journaling has always been something i gravitated towards when i was young too, i always had this incessant need to document things for the sake of memory because even then i was scared that one day i would lose my memory and forget who i am LOL... after my sparse entries, i usually try to write all the things i'm into at the time (like, a written form of my media of the day/week LOL) so when i eventually go back and revisit old entries, i'll be like woahh i was obsessed with this bjork song or woahh i tried my favorite drink for the very first time on this day
i barely journal throughout my life bcs i've been forever traumatized by my primary school bullies stealing my journal and read it out to everyone lmao. but hey i might start my journal again this year
Noooo way same!!!! In my case it was a bully and a guy who had a crush on me (🙄) teaming up??? That was wild and probably won't happen again but I'm scared to start journaling now 💀
i used to think i didn't know "how" to journal until i realized that you can do whatever you want in a journal because it's yours LMAO i've been journaling since high school ("journaling" but like in a i-only-do-it-when-something-happens-to-me kind of way but also i end up not writing when TOO much happens because i get overwhelmed and then i also forget asdjlkfakw + i only use one journal for thoughts AND scrapbooking/memento-keeping so i feel that self-inflicted pressure to make nice spreads?? idk) and it's just a lot of fun..... i also have a lot of small notebooks because i saw a video that said to bring one wherever you go to jot down just all the thoughts that pop into your head and i thought that was so smart except i also just forget that i have a tiny notebook in my bag 😅i also totally understand how u feel re: not wanting ur journal to be just Sad™ thoughts, which is why i kind of also stop myself sometimes from writing just because i'm not feeling particularly happy or whatever.... (and i also dislike lined journals like get those away from me) side note: does anyone else write in their journals like someone's gonna read it? i probably shouldn't because it keeps me from saying EVERYTHING i want to say but i always feel like it's gonna turn into the next diary of anne frank for some reason and you were right about both steve and joe (blue's clues) anyway yes more journal content! idk what u wanna share but i just like consuming content abt journals esp from creators i admire!!
in full total 100% support of writing as if someone's gonna read it... suddenly i am a writer going through manuscripts for my memoir... U never know babe
The next diary of Anne Frank LMAO yes I've always acted the same way, in fact I think I started journaling in earnest in fifth grade after reading that book
Omg the part about writing for an audience is real. I had this really pretty book and I used to write about my day but it was very unrealistic and very refined and not at all authentic, I used to write about the good stuff that happened in the day and would go on and on about it, It was so tiring. I think I was trying to encapsulate the bloggers at the time. Then the extreme opposite happened I tried to be super authentic, tried expressing everything that came into my mind, no filter, just rambling about how bad my life is, how bad I am, and it negatively started to affect. Sort of like overcompensating. But I personally think the rambling one is better than the first one. So now, I've got two journals - one is a small exercise book, it's not very pretty, one thing I've noticed, the prettier a book is, the more unrealistic expectations I have with it to not 'ruin' it. So in this book, I mainly rant about my life. It's very personal and subjective I usually write when I'm going through bad days, an emotional outlet kind of thing. The other one is a large notebook, a spiral one. Which I write about life in a more objective way, I think. The main point with this one was to be consistent.
I used to journal so much and had different notebooks for different reasons but now i do more of a common place/junk journal thing where lists, notes, ideas and diary entries go into one book. kinda messy but stops any perfectionist procrastination
im a writer but i am never able to get through a journal, im too anxious for this. it feels as tho my feelings or organized thoughts are made up and i am designing it to make feelings look pretty. even if i know nobody will ever see. so you really are right when you say a womans sanity is revealed through her journals. mine date back to when i started writing and its mostly poster cutouts, receipts and pasted images mostly drawings. i also have a food journal of detailed food pictures that i draw from scratch along w its recipes my mum made for me with those particular items.
can we get a room tour I can't stop looking at your wall, and your purse video was so fun! I used to keep journals, but I got very paranoid that someone would read it since I moved out and now live with room mates. so I burned all my journals at my friends house lol. I dont have any secrets, its just really embarrassing lol
been stuck in a rut with journaling bc i feel like theres not much going on in my life as of right now and felt like it would be a lot of the same thing☹ this vid is a little push for me to get writing regardless♥︎love your vids! totally relating to wanting to make my journals more positive bc i feel like all of them are filled with super negative stuff lol
re-reading my journal made spiral bc i convinced myself through these entries i'm not as multifaceted as i think and only give space/capacity to negative feelings (nawt true obv)
@JESYCU Yes I agree & I'm stubborn so even if you gave guidelines I wouldn't take them. Everyone should make their own rules. But like... I still ♡ the content. Hearing others' approaches & philosophies to how they create something or engage with something. It just feels like we're doing our own thing, together ♡ & It feels motivating & inspiring ✨️ Or may spark my own idea. It's just fun 😸
I absolutely loved this video. I always want my journals to be perfect. Each time I get a new journal, I think carefully about how I want to structure it and I develop this idea that in ten years, I'll have half a dozen identical journals sitting on my shelf, each used perfectly, with pages that are worn but not TOO worn. That's unrealistic! I need to just spit it all out and JOURNAL. I think I'm gonna try this "several journal" thing--it's what I've been leaning to naturally for years now. Not one hour after watching this video did I stumble upon the most adorable little journal in a shop down the street! Yes, I bought it. No, I'm not waiting until I'm done with my current journal to start writing in it! Go on, girl, be messy! Much love! Keep it up!!
this is the first video of yours i’ve watched and i can honestly say that i absolutely loved it and love the parts of you that you share with us, i even giggled at some of your remarks. thank you :3
I had the exact opposite experience. When I was in highschool I was journalling pretty consistently but towards senior year I became depressed and it felt so pointless to journal. It really sucks bc all these years later and still when I try to write something down there’s the voice in my head saying it’s pointless, that I have nothing noteworthy to say. It doesn’t help much that there’s not a lot going on in my life either 😅 but this is a great video I think I’ll try to write something down before I go to sleep. 🫶🏼🫶🏼
when i was younger every few years i would throw out any journal i had from when i was younger because it was cringe and i felt embarrassed and now that i'm older i have a small sense of regret because that's memories of me and a version of me i won't remember. anyway i keep all of them now.
yay new vid, missed you!! i want to journal but there is this big fear of someone reading through my journal entries so i feel like i can't be completely honest. i know at least two family members snoop through my stuff so being vulnerable on paper makes me want to jump off cliff. not even writing in another language can help i fear.
i fear this is true.... when i was younger and found out one of my family members went through my journal (with a key and padlock) i was devastated and didn't write a single thing that could be seen as incriminating until i was turned 18 and moved away for college and had complete privacy of all my belongings. the things invasion of privacy can do to the psyche! i hope you're drawn to write soon!
loveloveLOVEE your videos so much 🫂 i feel so similar to you in a way but at the same time i think you're the coolest person i could ever aspire to be like 😔💗 MWAH love this video topic sm!
this video couldn't have come at a better time,, like girl how did u know i have 10 journals that all need different specific uses i was just trying to sort?! thank u for this
started journaling last month and i truly depend on it now. i think i used to struggle with it because i only wrote about my day rather than my thoughts and there was a pressure to consistently fill the pages everyday which just made me not want to do it but now i just yap about everything i can think of and it’s the one place where i feel like i can be as insane as i want
I have an ex who both physically assaulted me and read my journal on multiple occasions. The physical abuse was more traumatic, but him reading my journal was so much more of a violation. I felt no obligation to treat him as a fellow human after that. And I didn't. Anyway. Thank you for sharing 💜🙏
I’m so glad your video has popped into my feed. I love the way you speak & how you utilize your journals in different ways. You’ve inspired me to get a Travel Journal for the (few) times I do. SUBCRIBEDDDDD
had this vid in my watch later, finally sat down n watched it and i think I'm in love with u and ur content??? ur voice is so soothing and you articulate yourself so well
A few months ago I started journaling and it changed my life completely. I could write the most atrocious thing and no one would ever know it lol, also i love your voice, it's very soothing. Kisses from Italy
jes! where the hell have you been loca?? 😅 but on a real note - i did an unhinged thing where i caught up on months of journaling by typing out what i had recorded in bullet points, printed it, & pasted it in my journal. when i tell you i made sure those word docs were deleted from every trace of my icloud & computer….bc no one is gonna catch me slipping lol
oh i totally get this - im still backlogged on journal entries from earlier this year and was debating just typing and pasting everything bc I CANTTTT TRANSCRIBE it all
I’ve been journaling for years and still continue to do so but I remember deliberately stopping a few months back because all my entries were negative and filled with hateful self talk. I’m totally for venting in journals but I decided for myself not to write when I’m in a bad mood or going through a bad experience because it made me spiral more into it. Now, I journal regularly and mostly about the little things in life that bring me joy…this way I’m more actively appreciative of what I have and less prone to pessimism :)
also on topic my adhd self can't deal with one journal only...as Im writing Im looking at 7 different journals and that's just the stuff I use on the daily hahahah
ive been putting off going back to journaling for soooo long (even when my therapist recommended it 😭) but this video pushed me to start again !! love ur videos jess keep it up 🫂
Loved when you showed the floral journal and my thought was: omg it’s so cute. Then you start saying you really don’t like the design lol. I’m a flower girly through and through 💐💐💐
that’s actually nice that you had a journal when you were working corporate! do you think you could make a video about how you kept yourself organized/systems you would use? I’m just entering the ✨working world✨and I’m already feeling overwhelmed 😭 any advice would be great!!!!
I love this video. Writing/journaling literally is the key to my sanity. The period of my life where depression was the worst i never picked up my journal. I held onto everything and my mental health plummeted. Now I have like 4 journals lol all dotted or grid paper because I can’t be restricted. 😂 I have one for brain dumps I literally vomit of paper throughout my day. It keeps my head clear. I use it soon as I wake up, throughout the day, and before bed. If I’m spiraling and my thoughts are faster than I can write I’ll type them out in a google doc or the Notion App. I even have a little notebook I carry in my purse.
Girl I'm a college art student and your "art" journal is so beautiful. I've been trying to start an "art" journal where I just express myself visually. But it's so hard not to have it turned into a sketchbook for me. If that makes sense. Like i wanna allow myself to not try to be perfect at my art but instead let my emotions flow alot more with no planning and "journal" visually. This may look ugly or off but it'd also really nice because then you're not worrying about the outcome or making "art" but more about the process of expressing visually. Anyways, your journaling is beautiful.
I love your videos so much! I feel like we share the same brain also I would love to hear more about journaling from you if you want to post more of those videos!
when i was 10 i had a cute little journal with a lock (trust issues even back then!!) and i got mad at my dad and couldnt say shit to him cuz he would beat my ass so i wrote like ten pages of pure unadulterated rage and my older brothers broke the cheap ass lock and showed my dad everything i wrote so i still got my ass beat so ive been writing my feelings on paper then ripping it and throwing it out ever since but this year i will buy myself a journal #healing #sorryforthetraumadump
Journaling can help convey the thoughts I wish I can say verbally. What better what to express them then with random doodles and 16-pages filled with straight up yapping?
Purse me and journal me are the opposite person. My purse makes me look like a well organized and adjusted person who has their shit together, my journal makes me look like I should be in jail or a mental hospital
was that enya's scream tho hahahs my journal and planner is fused for cheaper approach bc hobonichi techo is already pricey for me. this year i persevered! the back pages are for big feelings while the weekly are for short paragraphs or ideas! used to have normal sized notebooks as my journal but its too much
I want to actually start a journal where I can just put the most depressing thoughts that come into my mind (that sadly come more often than not) because I write it in my Google Docs app or Notes app. Sometimes I get scared someone is reading all that while trying to find the perfect algorithm for me and crying in the process. But notebook are so uncomfortable, I'm left-handed so every time I try to write in a notebook it's so uncomfortable I just stop and continue in my notes app... I don't know what to do.
Lately I’ve been having a hard time with journaling, I feel like someone is gonna read it and start yelling me and asking me abt the logic behind my most negative emotions 💀💀
Honestly, I'd rather write dream journals than personal journals(now this is just my opinion), because I find it scary if someone were to stumble upon my journal and freely read it without my permission. With a dream journal, I'm okay with anyone reading it because it's not real life scenarios. And in doing so, they might just be inspired.
watching this video while eating my lukewarm deli salad and stimming with my deck of cards has been the highlight of my day. i also hit a curb on my way home from work today. this is all going in my journal.
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My old therapist once told me that i should have an outlet for my thoughts and feelings and i told her i had my journal, my paintings, my art and she said “no, i mean.. friends” and i was like “wtf, girlie”
nooooooo........ that's what my journal is for
I would understand if you wanted to expand your social circle or social skills even, but to advocate to use people as "a outlet for" your thoughts and feelings is basically using people as a sponge rather than human beings. Obviously people bond by word vomiting and gossiping about their life but I don't understand why your therapist would advocate to have friends as to use them as a outlet for your thoughts and feelings.
as a psych student… that’s a bad therapist
@@Elena-Studio i think maybe you took it in a wrong way. i think what the therapist meant is having people to talk to is better than being cacooned in your room/space/bubble and just doing things on your own. if you have friends for years, you venting your problems doesn't make them sponges coz they'll do the same with you abt their problems. it gets naturally reciprocated. and obviously i don't think the therapist told them to give up on hobbies but prioritise people.
@@thatqueeroverthere8807 i agree. and i think it's a bit extreme to say that this advice immediately encourages you to "use other people as sponges". true friends will share your sadness and joys with you, you can trust them and you can lean on them. that said. i hope you guys end up finding healing regardless of what form you choose your outlet to be. i do both -- art, journaling, notebooks and talking to friends -- and its helping a lot for me. we'll make it through this!
genuinely for a second thought you were going to read your journal out loud to the internet and I was like omg ur so fucking brave, I was strapped in and scared. aside from that, im one of the people who has a hard time journaling because I can never write as fast as my thoughts come in and a lot of the stuff I write in moments like that never make sense when reading them back. junk journaling is my go to tho, receipts, a leaf, flower, stickers, it’s a way for me to get a glimpse at my days through items that are often seen as trash
FUCKKKKKKKKK NEEEEEOOOOOOO i would never
also can u hurry up and move to nyc so we can junk journal together
@@JESYCU i’m tryingggg i swear, this job market is dookie😔
I'm like that too, so I write on my phone way more often
@@sageaandnotes app save me!
Imagine how mad I was when I was crossing the Canadian border and our car got searched. The officer grabbed my journal and stood there reading my journal for 10 mins imagine the rage I was in
ppl have been commenting on the authorities going through their things and reading their journals LIKE WHAT THIS SHOUOD BE ILLEGAL
WHAT 😭 HN they were just being nosy asf what would they need to read it for???
i used to only journal when i was going through awful shit so when i look at my high school journals it’s all terrorist attacks - zayn leaving 1d - my crush being in love with my bestie - and on and on with no coherence or sense of scale lmfao. now i daily journal, i do a morning brain dump where i talk abt the day before and do a little to do list of what im hoping i get done. was supposed to go to the tailor today but im not biking under that kind of rain. my actual favourite way to journal tho is voice notes, i have a 30mn voice note i recorded right before i turned 25 that makes me cry everytime i listen to it. it’s weird because i don’t feel like how i used to feel so it’s like listening to an actor say really hard things in this super emotional ways… sometimes i don’t recognize my past self. that’s the freakiest thing with journaling it’s like a trace of who you used to be. and in a more nebulous way there’s a 12 year old archive of everything i used to love online and that’s weird as well. whats a digital footprint again…don’t know! we leave traces of us all the time, youtube is def a beautiful outlet for that
agree with everything u said (as always) i feel like u glossed over ur crush being in love with ur bestie but we will revisit
As a (former?) 1D person - how are you holding up?
I stopped bringing my journal when traveling because TSA stopped me once and read my journal 😭😭
oh my god?! 😭
It was embarrassing because I was all sad about a guy in my journal and the tsa man asked “who’s this??” pointing to the name of the guy in my journal and I said just some guy I had been seeing.I didn’t know if I should have refused to answer I was scared. And he was like oh okay.I have no idea if he was just being nosy or if he wanted to accuse me of something but I was so scared I had study books to learn Arabic and French too and he asked what languages they were and looked through them a little too but he mostly just stood there and read at least 2/3 of my journal in the additional screening section and then sent me on my way idk if this is a common thing that happens when they “randomly select” people for screening
nahhhh 😭 thats dastardly
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I’m sorry but HOW CAN YOU BE THIS BEAUTIFUL ??
blushing... stop stop stop this is so unprofessional of me
journaling has always been something i gravitated towards when i was young too, i always had this incessant need to document things for the sake of memory because even then i was scared that one day i would lose my memory and forget who i am LOL... after my sparse entries, i usually try to write all the things i'm into at the time (like, a written form of my media of the day/week LOL) so when i eventually go back and revisit old entries, i'll be like woahh i was obsessed with this bjork song or woahh i tried my favorite drink for the very first time on this day
another fav method of mine 🙂↕️
i barely journal throughout my life bcs i've been forever traumatized by my primary school bullies stealing my journal and read it out to everyone lmao. but hey i might start my journal again this year
oh how profoundly sad that makes me 😭 bullies are the worst and i hope you're drawn to write soon my love
Noooo way same!!!! In my case it was a bully and a guy who had a crush on me (🙄) teaming up??? That was wild and probably won't happen again but I'm scared to start journaling now 💀
The part about trying to not only go to the journal when sad is sooo real.
i used to think i didn't know "how" to journal until i realized that you can do whatever you want in a journal because it's yours LMAO i've been journaling since high school ("journaling" but like in a i-only-do-it-when-something-happens-to-me kind of way but also i end up not writing when TOO much happens because i get overwhelmed and then i also forget asdjlkfakw + i only use one journal for thoughts AND scrapbooking/memento-keeping so i feel that self-inflicted pressure to make nice spreads?? idk) and it's just a lot of fun..... i also have a lot of small notebooks because i saw a video that said to bring one wherever you go to jot down just all the thoughts that pop into your head and i thought that was so smart except i also just forget that i have a tiny notebook in my bag 😅i also totally understand how u feel re: not wanting ur journal to be just Sad™ thoughts, which is why i kind of also stop myself sometimes from writing just because i'm not feeling particularly happy or whatever.... (and i also dislike lined journals like get those away from me)
side note: does anyone else write in their journals like someone's gonna read it? i probably shouldn't because it keeps me from saying EVERYTHING i want to say but i always feel like it's gonna turn into the next diary of anne frank for some reason
and you were right about both steve and joe (blue's clues)
anyway yes more journal content! idk what u wanna share but i just like consuming content abt journals esp from creators i admire!!
in full total 100% support of writing as if someone's gonna read it... suddenly i am a writer going through manuscripts for my memoir... U never know babe
The next diary of Anne Frank LMAO yes I've always acted the same way, in fact I think I started journaling in earnest in fifth grade after reading that book
Omg the part about writing for an audience is real. I had this really pretty book and I used to write about my day but it was very unrealistic and very refined and not at all authentic, I used to write about the good stuff that happened in the day and would go on and on about it, It was so tiring. I think I was trying to encapsulate the bloggers at the time. Then the extreme opposite happened I tried to be super authentic, tried expressing everything that came into my mind, no filter, just rambling about how bad my life is, how bad I am, and it negatively started to affect. Sort of like overcompensating. But I personally think the rambling one is better than the first one.
So now, I've got two journals - one is a small exercise book, it's not very pretty, one thing I've noticed, the prettier a book is, the more unrealistic expectations I have with it to not 'ruin' it. So in this book, I mainly rant about my life. It's very personal and subjective I usually write when I'm going through bad days, an emotional outlet kind of thing.
The other one is a large notebook, a spiral one. Which I write about life in a more objective way, I think. The main point with this one was to be consistent.
the well timed honk after "very extroverted until" made my boba shoot out my nose I wish that was a lie so like thank u for capturing that, truly.
I used to journal so much and had different notebooks for different reasons but now i do more of a common place/junk journal thing where lists, notes, ideas and diary entries go into one book. kinda messy but stops any perfectionist procrastination
love that
im a writer but i am never able to get through a journal, im too anxious for this. it feels as tho my feelings or organized thoughts are made up and i am designing it to make feelings look pretty. even if i know nobody will ever see. so you really are right when you say a womans sanity is revealed through her journals. mine date back to when i started writing and its mostly poster cutouts, receipts and pasted images mostly drawings. i also have a food journal of detailed food pictures that i draw from scratch along w its recipes my mum made for me with those particular items.
can we get a room tour I can't stop looking at your wall, and your purse video was so fun!
I used to keep journals, but I got very paranoid that someone would read it since I moved out and now live with room mates. so I burned all my journals at my friends house lol. I dont have any secrets, its just really embarrassing lol
burned? 😭😭😭
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being a woman is having multiple journals and multiple drinks at all times❤️
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started journaling today because of this vid and lives were changed
I LOVE your voice, it‘s so calming and smooth you should do audio books
the ultimate side quest
this is so true. you are beautiful and I could listen to you talk for hours (I would draw you in my journal for sure)
please you saying your first journal is giving kafka i cannot i love u
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Babez wake-up, new jesycu vid is out
Im also an avid journaler and ooo ur inspiring me to try organizing my journals in new ways 🙏🏾
been stuck in a rut with journaling bc i feel like theres not much going on in my life as of right now and felt like it would be a lot of the same thing☹ this vid is a little push for me to get writing regardless♥︎love your vids!
totally relating to wanting to make my journals more positive bc i feel like all of them are filled with super negative stuff lol
re-reading my journal made spiral bc i convinced myself through these entries i'm not as multifaceted as i think and only give space/capacity to negative feelings (nawt true obv)
this was so interesting to watch! i love seeing people's journal collections!
inspired me to start journaling again loool haven’t done it since i was like 9! now i’m 23 and it feels good ahhh 🤭❤️
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Yes more on journaling! Doesn't have to be prompts, but your own approach to journaling and any guidelines based on that!
no rules baby!!
@JESYCU Yes I agree & I'm stubborn so even if you gave guidelines I wouldn't take them. Everyone should make their own rules. But like... I still ♡ the content. Hearing others' approaches & philosophies to how they create something or engage with something. It just feels like we're doing our own thing, together ♡ & It feels motivating & inspiring ✨️ Or may spark my own idea. It's just fun 😸
I absolutely loved this video. I always want my journals to be perfect. Each time I get a new journal, I think carefully about how I want to structure it and I develop this idea that in ten years, I'll have half a dozen identical journals sitting on my shelf, each used perfectly, with pages that are worn but not TOO worn. That's unrealistic! I need to just spit it all out and JOURNAL. I think I'm gonna try this "several journal" thing--it's what I've been leaning to naturally for years now. Not one hour after watching this video did I stumble upon the most adorable little journal in a shop down the street! Yes, I bought it. No, I'm not waiting until I'm done with my current journal to start writing in it! Go on, girl, be messy!
Much love! Keep it up!!
Hiii, I just found your channel and it is such a nice space wow😭 finals week is ending me and this video was such a cosy thing watch
this is the first video of yours i’ve watched and i can honestly say that i absolutely loved it and love the parts of you that you share with us, i even giggled at some of your remarks. thank you :3
thank u for watching!!!
I had the exact opposite experience. When I was in highschool I was journalling pretty consistently but towards senior year I became depressed and it felt so pointless to journal. It really sucks bc all these years later and still when I try to write something down there’s the voice in my head saying it’s pointless, that I have nothing noteworthy to say. It doesn’t help much that there’s not a lot going on in my life either 😅 but this is a great video I think I’ll try to write something down before I go to sleep. 🫶🏼🫶🏼
write about absolutely anything. i think once you start, your brain gains a lot more momentum. hope u write soon :)
when i was younger every few years i would throw out any journal i had from when i was younger because it was cringe and i felt embarrassed and now that i'm older i have a small sense of regret because that's memories of me and a version of me i won't remember. anyway i keep all of them now.
yay new vid, missed you!! i want to journal but there is this big fear of someone reading through my journal entries so i feel like i can't be completely honest. i know at least two family members snoop through my stuff so being vulnerable on paper makes me want to jump off cliff. not even writing in another language can help i fear.
i fear this is true.... when i was younger and found out one of my family members went through my journal (with a key and padlock) i was devastated and didn't write a single thing that could be seen as incriminating until i was turned 18 and moved away for college and had complete privacy of all my belongings. the things invasion of privacy can do to the psyche! i hope you're drawn to write soon!
finally someone that matches my crazy, the stack of journals is meeeee
loveloveLOVEE your videos so much 🫂 i feel so similar to you in a way but at the same time i think you're the coolest person i could ever aspire to be like 😔💗 MWAH love this video topic sm!
mwah thank u for watching
OMG U BORROW CUTE STATIONARY TOO!!!! TWINEMMMM🤞👯♀️
Loving your vibe !!!
this video couldn't have come at a better time,, like girl how did u know i have 10 journals that all need different specific uses i was just trying to sort?! thank u for this
started journaling last month and i truly depend on it now. i think i used to struggle with it because i only wrote about my day rather than my thoughts and there was a pressure to consistently fill the pages everyday which just made me not want to do it but now i just yap about everything i can think of and it’s the one place where i feel like i can be as insane as i want
I have an ex who both physically assaulted me and read my journal on multiple occasions.
The physical abuse was more traumatic, but him reading my journal was so much more of a violation. I felt no obligation to treat him as a fellow human after that. And I didn't.
Anyway. Thank you for sharing 💜🙏
Your journals are so cute! I love how you decorated the black moleskine, it's lovely! :)
Sia i feel the same way about line notebooks 😂
I’m so glad your video has popped into my feed. I love the way you speak & how you utilize your journals in different ways. You’ve inspired me to get a Travel Journal for the (few) times I do. SUBCRIBEDDDDD
yipeeeeee i am so glad
had this vid in my watch later, finally sat down n watched it and i think I'm in love with u and ur content??? ur voice is so soothing and you articulate yourself so well
thank you!! v glad i made a good first impression
Obsessed with you lowkey 😟🤭 your vibe and honesty is so refreshing on here! Love your vids and humor
4 seconds in and i know i’m gonna stay here for long.
A few months ago I started journaling and it changed my life completely. I could write the most atrocious thing and no one would ever know it lol, also i love your voice, it's very soothing. Kisses from Italy
i write the most henouis hateful things to release that energy and close my journal and no one ever knows
jes! where the hell have you been loca?? 😅 but on a real note - i did an unhinged thing where i caught up on months of journaling by typing out what i had recorded in bullet points, printed it, & pasted it in my journal. when i tell you i made sure those word docs were deleted from every trace of my icloud & computer….bc no one is gonna catch me slipping lol
oh i totally get this - im still backlogged on journal entries from earlier this year and was debating just typing and pasting everything bc I CANTTTT TRANSCRIBE it all
@@JESYCU the arthritis acts up immediately 😭 typing is the way to go!
I’ve been journaling for years and still continue to do so but I remember deliberately stopping a few months back because all my entries were negative and filled with hateful self talk. I’m totally for venting in journals but I decided for myself not to write when I’m in a bad mood or going through a bad experience because it made me spiral more into it. Now, I journal regularly and mostly about the little things in life that bring me joy…this way I’m more actively appreciative of what I have and less prone to pessimism :)
100000% for adopting this habit. idk why i found it so necessary to journal when i'm sad, it was ultimately very counterintuitive
bless the upload, I was tweaking and convinced it was because I hadn’t seen any new videos from you
time has been so mystifying lately i thought it had been 10 days max since my last video come to find out it was over three weeks :0
off topic your tone of voice is incredible
also on topic my adhd self can't deal with one journal only...as Im writing Im looking at 7 different journals and that's just the stuff I use on the daily hahahah
ive been putting off going back to journaling for soooo long (even when my therapist recommended it 😭) but this video pushed me to start again !! love ur videos jess keep it up 🫂
thank u!!!! glad to hear u start writing again
Loved when you showed the floral journal and my thought was: omg it’s so cute. Then you start saying you really don’t like the design lol. I’m a flower girly through and through 💐💐💐
that’s actually nice that you had a journal when you were working corporate! do you think you could make a video about how you kept yourself organized/systems you would use? I’m just entering the ✨working world✨and I’m already feeling overwhelmed 😭 any advice would be great!!!!
I don’t think you’ll ever understand how much I love your videos………. They scratch an ITCH in my BRAAAAINNNNN
You can go through my purse, but nobody can ever look at my journal. They are so wild, nobody needs to know those things about me. 😂
if u were in a saw trap and that mf said he'd free you if he could go through your phone or journal which are u choosing
You are the talent !
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I love this video. Writing/journaling literally is the key to my sanity. The period of my life where depression was the worst i never picked up my journal. I held onto everything and my mental health plummeted. Now I have like 4 journals lol all dotted or grid paper because I can’t be restricted. 😂 I have one for brain dumps I literally vomit of paper throughout my day. It keeps my head clear. I use it soon as I wake up, throughout the day, and before bed. If I’m spiraling and my thoughts are faster than I can write I’ll type them out in a google doc or the Notion App. I even have a little notebook I carry in my purse.
amen...i'm writing literally every part of the day
girl i fuck with your vibes HEAVILY
Finaly someone I dont mind listen to in vlogs hahaah I loved the kitten card on the cover :)
ur so pretty what
girl the way i was listening to this before bed abt to fall asleep and the screaming audio kicked in
OMGGG i'm sorry
Damn now I wanna read ur journal
it is spooky in there i would not advise
my favourite UA-camr posted ayayayayayayaay
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Girl I'm a college art student and your "art" journal is so beautiful. I've been trying to start an "art" journal where I just express myself visually. But it's so hard not to have it turned into a sketchbook for me. If that makes sense.
Like i wanna allow myself to not try to be perfect at my art but instead let my emotions flow alot more with no planning and "journal" visually. This may look ugly or off but it'd also really nice because then you're not worrying about the outcome or making "art" but more about the process of expressing visually. Anyways, your journaling is beautiful.
i agree!! it's really difficult to let the process of expression take over and put expectations or perfection to the side
I only just started this video but you have the most beautiful voice i've ever heard
thank u!
Girl~~~ subscribed the minute u mentioned blue's clues 😂😂😂
loved this ten out of ten, getting my journals stolen was the worst thing that ever happened to me tho
that would ruin my year
girl you're so funny omgg. the video is perfect! watching from Brazil ❤
brazil!! thank u for watching
Title is sooooo real 😭
love the thumbnail!!
Started journaling again when I got pregnant because I thought I would probably die.
I love your videos so much! I feel like we share the same brain also I would love to hear more about journaling from you if you want to post more of those videos!
tysm :) absolutely can do
needed this
'i'm talking about a woman here, a woman, i'm not talking about anything else than a woman' and the crowd cheered, girl i love you!!!!!
u get me ;)
obsessed
You have such a beautiful voice
thank u!
I can't even write much because of the thoughts, like, THOSE. So... 😊
real
Okayy lipgloss 😍😍😍
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0:58 me every day about everything
ahhh I love your voice
thank u!!
when i was 10 i had a cute little journal with a lock (trust issues even back then!!) and i got mad at my dad and couldnt say shit to him cuz he would beat my ass so i wrote like ten pages of pure unadulterated rage and my older brothers broke the cheap ass lock and showed my dad everything i wrote so i still got my ass beat so ive been writing my feelings on paper then ripping it and throwing it out ever since but this year i will buy myself a journal #healing #sorryforthetraumadump
same thing happened 2 me bae #dontworry #mymomreadmyjournalandchasistedmeforhavingacrush #iwas9
Journaling can help convey the thoughts I wish I can say verbally. What better what to express them then with random doodles and 16-pages filled with straight up yapping?
i think this exact sentence should be in the bible
Purse me and journal me are the opposite person. My purse makes me look like a well organized and adjusted person who has their shit together, my journal makes me look like I should be in jail or a mental hospital
interesting... purse me and journal me are both a god awful mess
im so happy i found your channel a bit ago, your videos just hit right
glad ur here :0
Thanks for the video
was that enya's scream tho hahahs my journal and planner is fused for cheaper approach bc hobonichi techo is already pricey for me. this year i persevered! the back pages are for big feelings while the weekly are for short paragraphs or ideas! used to have normal sized notebooks as my journal but its too much
i love the idea of compartmentalizing and having different areas in the same journal
subscribed when you brought up borrowing :D
#borrowing #is #bad
I want to actually start a journal where I can just put the most depressing thoughts that come into my mind (that sadly come more often than not) because I write it in my Google Docs app or Notes app. Sometimes I get scared someone is reading all that while trying to find the perfect algorithm for me and crying in the process. But notebook are so uncomfortable, I'm left-handed so every time I try to write in a notebook it's so uncomfortable I just stop and continue in my notes app... I don't know what to do.
same. idk i feel too ashamed to put it on paper i cant stop thinking the possibility that people going to found and read it its so scary
awesome
Looks like i found a cool channel...I'll cook pasta tomorrow and devour your content while eating peace🤞
does anyone know the brand/type the content calendar is? i really like the format, and look of it!
im sat
Lately I’ve been having a hard time with journaling, I feel like someone is gonna read it and start yelling me and asking me abt the logic behind my most negative emotions 💀💀
very real
love u
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jesycu substack thank you god for this blessed meal
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Honestly, I'd rather write dream journals than personal journals(now this is just my opinion), because I find it scary if someone were to stumble upon my journal and freely read it without my permission. With a dream journal, I'm okay with anyone reading it because it's not real life scenarios. And in doing so, they might just be inspired.
a dream journal...... what is that i am so intrigued
@@JESYCU it’s a journal to write about all your dreams in detail, if you can remember that is. So I usually keep one beside my bedside table
GIRL what is that thing blinking black and green on ur wallll??? im sorry im just so intrigued
it's a keychain that says "i hate work" hahahaha