Okay so I don’t remember if I mentioned this already but you know it’s tumblr the majority of my followers don’t see all my posts anyway so who cares!?
I wanted to share that recently I gave a big FUCK YOU to all my journals and decided to condense them into one book. So my personal journal, my devotional journal, my shadow work journal, and my grimoire are now all in one journal!
The reasoning behind this is that
My brain could not handle the amount of journals. Too overwhelming and obnoxious
Pretty much everything with me overlaps and bleeds into each other; my mundane life, my magical life, my shadow, and my spiritual life. It’s all my life so why not have it all in one place?
This might sound weird but I’ve always wanted a book to bond with. A book where you felt that YOU could be clearly found between the pages. A book that truly records your life in your own words.
It’s important to note that this book is mainly for all my thoughts, feelings, observations, theories, ideas, etc. I have a binder now that is for actual information, research, and workings. I’ve found, for me at least, it was better for the separation of books to be between research and inner thoughts not between subjects.
Since I made the shift which really wasn’t that long ago I’ve found myself writing a TON more. It’s nice bc there’s less thought to it. I don’t have to think “wait is this a devotional journal thought or a personal journal thought?” which as I pointed out is especially tricky for me given everything tends to overlap. So now I just grab my one journal and write whatever the fuck I want without worrying. It’s so much less stressful!
And having my research contained to one binder is also a huge weight lifted off of me bc I don’t have to worry about making anything “perfect”. The whole binder is designed to be just jotting information I come across. I don’t have to think about making it pretty or protecting my journal entries. It’s a lot more functional and leaves way less room for my perfectionism to be its bitchy self.
So yeah I’m really excited bc it seems like I’ve FINALLY found a system that works for me and I wanted to share in case this may work for someone else. It’s not a system that gets mentioned really at all and it took me THIS long to think of it! I’d rather you all not have to go through the ridiculously annoying journey I went on just to end up here, with one book and one binder. Tbh if I wasn’t so happy to finally have a working system for myself I’d probably be really mad! 🤣
