Haha I'm glad my fellow virgos understand. Your journals sound fascinating! I love having my journal be a catch all for everything, dreams, artwork, so on, so I think that's a really cool method!

THANK YOU!!! I have no idea why I started but I think they're funny later on, especially without context haha

@@mae_moss YES THEYRE SO FUNNY

Thank you so much! Yeah, it definitely took me a long time to realise I didn't have to be perfect in my journals, and it was kind of the point to not be. I will definitely check out this Talks from the Heart channel, she looks really cool!

Thank you so much Amelia! I was a but worried I was rambling haha but I think I covered everything to do with journaling that is important to me at the moment. I'm glad you liked it!

Thank you so much for your lovely comment! I think this is why journaling is so important, because it constantly asks you to show up to the page, analyse yourself, and try and get better. I'd like to think one day I'll have mastered journaling, but I don't see that ever being the case haha. They'll always be something to learn, which I guess is why we like it so much.

Thank you so much! I really enjoy writing down locations, because like I said it gives context if I'm reading through later, but I think it's also cool to look back and see all of the different locations I've journaled in.

Thank you so much! It's comforting to hear that other people know what I'm talking about haha, I'm glad you like it!

Overall Adventures was such an integral part of my journaling, and a big reason why I started talking about it on youtube as well. I could only hope to make cozy videos like her, so thank you so much for your lovely comment!

Thank you so much Rachel! For the patchwork design I used some knockoff alcohol markers, which would explain the bleeding, but I liked the colours so I was willing to make the sacrifice haha

Thank you so much Fiona, I really appreciate that!

Thank you so much Fifi! Wow, it's incredible that you've been journaling since such a young age - you must have quite a cool collection of journals. I agree about journals being an extension of ourselves, which can make it quite scary and vulnerable at times, but overall quite healing. Happy journaling!

@@mae_moss You said it happy and vulnerable.. when i moved out of my parents at 17, i had a huge garage bag with all my journal, but my dad thought it was real garage! I realised the next day, i didnt have it, but my dad had already thrown in in a container, dont know where. I cried my self out. (If my sentences seems weird, it's because english is not my first language :-) But since then, i kept every thing, i have journals everywhere in my place, im surrended by those lol. Journals, book, writing, is my true passion. After that, its travel ;-) That cost a little bit more, but so worthed😊 I see life like the chapters of a book. Our book. Going through the differents stages of our life, chapters, so many joy, challenge etc, happens, journalling, is like our best friend, that follows us, 24 hours a day. I remember at 9 years old, sad memory, i was coming back home from the library, with my brother, and we saw our little dog, getting out of our parking running to the street, and he got it by a car. That was too much for me, first time i experience sadness and pain lime that. But i remember, i grabbed my journal, and Ho did i cursed, describing the #$%^&* big blue car that hit our dog. So i lost I got it out, and i know, it helped me, not keeping it inside. I could use any "bad words" lol, i wouldnt have never said to a real friend ;-)) Overall, i have all the memories of my life so far, its an incredible treasure, i will always cherish those precious books. Dont ever stop writing🩷🧡❤️

@@FifiJustice-pd8tf Thank you so much for sharing. I'm sorry to hear about your lost journals - I can't imagine losing any of my own. Once I had a dream where I threw all of my journals into the ocean one by one, and then I got so scared of losing them that I dove back in and got them all again. It's scary putting so much of yourself into a book with no certainty of what's going to happen to it. But, as you say, keep writing. I can't quite kick the habit. I'm sorry to hear about your dog as well. It's wonderful that you got it all out in your journal though. I agree with the sentiment that it's a place to put things you wouldn't say to a real friend. I think this makes journaling an excellent tool of properly working through feelings, without having to worry if you're saying it right. I think you will appreciate this quote from Tom Rosenthal's 'Forgets Slowly' "It's all just chapters in the end, Some we receive and some we send, And some are just written really badly."

@@mae_moss 🩷🩷Love this quote🥰🥰🥰🥰 thank you, and have a beautiful day🥰🥰🥰

Thank you so much! I came around to the idea of drawing the book covers because I had seen so many beautiful spreads online where people had printed the book covers out. Unfortunately I don't have a great printer lol so I made do, but I think I prefer drawing them now anyway!

Haha yes I definitely agree, it was a bit of a hike to get to where I filmed this but it was worth it just for the birds

Thank you so much, that is so sweet! I'd never heard of 'plein air' before now, but that is very cute and I greatly appreciate it

Thank you so much! There's definitely a treasure trove of embarrassing stuff back there haha, but it was nice to get back to making a video again

Thank you Monika! I'm a bit obsessed with it

Thank you Elliot!

Haha thank you so much!

Hey Elliot, thank you so much, and thank you for the ideas! I'm looking at doing a journal collection video soon, but a 2023 goals video sounds really cool as well!

Thank you! :)

Thank you so much! 😊