Hi, I’m Carolina. I’m journaling from a small, shared room that somehow holds a whole world—my husband, our daughter, and me. I’m a writer, a new mom, and someone rediscovering faith one quiet moment at a time. I came here hoping to reconnect with parts of myself that got buried under survival mode.
Healing, right now, looks like slowness. Not transformation overnight, but gentle nudges back to center. It’s the moment I choose grace over guilt. It’s finishing a cup of coffee while my daughter naps. It’s writing again—even if just a single, shaky line.
Something small bringing me joy? The sun streaming in like a quiet affirmation that I’m still here. That’s enough for now.
Carolina, I can definitely relate. I remember beginning my Substack literally from moments of desperately needing healing and slowness. It's what helped me with Postpartum and what's helping me heal now.
Hi I’m Minyon. I am journaling from Georgia. I saw this post on threads yesterday and it took me to 11:20pm 5/1/2025 to decide to participate. I just paused to catch my daughter from falling off my bed, she’s learning to crawl and has no situational awareness lol but she is the best thing that has ever happened to me. Don’t really know why I started crying when I haven’t even wrote anything yet, but I know I have to heal for her so I can make sure my cuts don’t bleed on her. I have a lot to unpack and I’m not even sure what I have buried deep, but it’s heavy and I feel it the most thinking about my daughter. I am hoping I can learn something new about myself and grow past the unspoken trauma. Happy to be here and see other women here to heal those parts of ourselves that we don’t show the rest of the world. Right now healing is a very foreign object to me that I wish to learn more about.
Minyon I'm so happy you're here. Parenthood is a beautiful, sacred, tender, journey. I shared a video on threads and one thing I didn't share is that as I wrote about my sons, I cried. Motherhood has been so healing to me. It's tough but it's allowed me to really work on breaking cycles of trauma so I won't ever have to hand them to my kids. It's also taught me to rest and show up for myself. I'm so glad you're here. I hope this journey brings you so much healing.
Hi! I'm Teronda, from Virginia. I've been here since before The Artist's Way book club. I stayed for the message and tone. And gardening (in pots) has brought me a bit of joy lately. I wake up every morning, make a cup of coffee and walk outside to check on my blossoming babies. Well, everything's green right now. LOL And that's a good thing.
I am so happy that I saw your post on threads because this is exactly what I needed to find myself after a few months of struggle. I want to commit to this challenge for this beautiful month of May before I turn 18!! Lately something that has been bringing joy into my life are the sunny days, I feel more motivated and inspired🤍
Love this and shared my answer to this prompt in my most recent note! Enjoying reconnecting to my writing that’s not academic or to be graded! Thank you for the challenge!
I’m here from Threads! This post pulled me. I haven’t written anything since I was a teen. Now that I’ve exited survival mode. I now want to FULLY explore my GOD given talent.
One thing that bring me joy is burning lavender incense as soon as I wake up & throughout the day. It REALLY calms me and makes my days feel smooth.
Yes here for a good dose of lavender. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm so glad you are out of survival mode and making room to just be and tend your inner garden.
Hi! I'm Jazmin, journaling from Spartanburg County, SC. I love journaling and getting back into writing, and I immediately had to join after seeing this via Threads. Currently, my song on repeat is Defying Gravity from WICKED, which made me get back into cycling due to Cyclebar having a WICKED theme ride lol. Mornings start by taking care of myself to be the best version of me for my son & for me. I've stopped taking care of myself, and it's time.
Jazmin thank you for being here and sharing space. Wow I may have to take a listen because I need to get my body moving. So happy to aww you're showing up for yourself.
Ish from Boston :) healing is a heavy word for me right now. Today’s prompt led to pages on pages of reflection of what healing even means in this season I am just learning to navigate. It spilled into my therapist appointment and I was confronted with my tendency to sweep my pain and grief under the rug to protect the emotions of others or to protect the image of strength I hold deep in my core. My conclusion is that right now healing just means listening. Listening to myself and the emotions or heaviness my body is carrying. Healing is being gentle to those emotions and understanding they are trying to teach me and guide me, not punish me or destroy me.
Hey Ishhhh! So good to see you here sharing space. I completely understand and empathize deeply with where you are as I'm there too. Listening is such an essential part of making room for healing. I hope you are being gentle with yourself as you listen. I hope you're making space for grace as you feel the tender parts. Sending mucho amor to you.
I love journaling, collecting journals, & cool pens to write with. It’s a goal of mine to learn calligraphy so I can make my thoughts even cooler to look back on. Recently I’ve allowed life’s demands to drag me out of one my most healthy habits. I’m here to get back into it on the daily! Thank you for creating this space! 💜 I’m very glad to be among likeminded souls.
Diamond you're at the right place. I actually teach calligraphy. I'm hoping to do an online sesh again once I gather my bearings. So happy you're here.
hey and good morning 🤍 thanks for this space! it’s been a while since I’ve journaled in pen (I love audio journaling) so this is just what I needed to return to it.
what’s healing me rn is having fun with community. enjoying concerts and movies that with loved ones and being fully immersed in the stories told 👏🏾
hey, im grateful to be writing and also super thankful for the founder of all of this it's great work and highly appreciate! I've been feeling glad lately for s'mores !! I found out I'm great at making those and just that has rewire little by little my empowerment
Daniela welcome y bienvenidos. I am so grateful ya'll showed interest because now I don't have to do it alone. I love s'mores. Yum just the taste of chocolate and marshmallow sounds so good today.
I’m joining you after seeing your post on Threads just yesterday. I joined on a whim. I’m finding joy in the spring weather - and looking around to name all the things that are still good.
Laura welcome! I am so happy you found your way here and that you are taking part in this experience. Yes to the Spring weather, I was recently in the DMV area and the Spring there is just glorious. Thank you for being here! Welcome.
Morning! I'm journaling from Georgia! I'm joining this challenge after I saw your post on Threads last night and this is right on time as I said earlier this week I wanted to get back to jounraling. I started making candles a month ago and it gives me a little joy as I navigate grief.
I’m Sherrell from Baltimore MD. I have been journaling for a while & I love having prompts. A small thing that has been bringing me joy is a beautiful tea I’ve been drinking. Healing right now looks like not accepting discomfort caused by others. Instead of holding it in, now, I tell the person. 🙏
Hi, I’m Carolina. I’m journaling from a small, shared room that somehow holds a whole world—my husband, our daughter, and me. I’m a writer, a new mom, and someone rediscovering faith one quiet moment at a time. I came here hoping to reconnect with parts of myself that got buried under survival mode.
Healing, right now, looks like slowness. Not transformation overnight, but gentle nudges back to center. It’s the moment I choose grace over guilt. It’s finishing a cup of coffee while my daughter naps. It’s writing again—even if just a single, shaky line.
Something small bringing me joy? The sun streaming in like a quiet affirmation that I’m still here. That’s enough for now.
Carolina, I can definitely relate. I remember beginning my Substack literally from moments of desperately needing healing and slowness. It's what helped me with Postpartum and what's helping me heal now.
Hi I’m Minyon. I am journaling from Georgia. I saw this post on threads yesterday and it took me to 11:20pm 5/1/2025 to decide to participate. I just paused to catch my daughter from falling off my bed, she’s learning to crawl and has no situational awareness lol but she is the best thing that has ever happened to me. Don’t really know why I started crying when I haven’t even wrote anything yet, but I know I have to heal for her so I can make sure my cuts don’t bleed on her. I have a lot to unpack and I’m not even sure what I have buried deep, but it’s heavy and I feel it the most thinking about my daughter. I am hoping I can learn something new about myself and grow past the unspoken trauma. Happy to be here and see other women here to heal those parts of ourselves that we don’t show the rest of the world. Right now healing is a very foreign object to me that I wish to learn more about.
Minyon I'm so happy you're here. Parenthood is a beautiful, sacred, tender, journey. I shared a video on threads and one thing I didn't share is that as I wrote about my sons, I cried. Motherhood has been so healing to me. It's tough but it's allowed me to really work on breaking cycles of trauma so I won't ever have to hand them to my kids. It's also taught me to rest and show up for myself. I'm so glad you're here. I hope this journey brings you so much healing.
Hi! I'm Teronda, from Virginia. I've been here since before The Artist's Way book club. I stayed for the message and tone. And gardening (in pots) has brought me a bit of joy lately. I wake up every morning, make a cup of coffee and walk outside to check on my blossoming babies. Well, everything's green right now. LOL And that's a good thing.
Teronda thank you for being here. Phew I need a re-do on Artist Way! Thank you for staying and sharing space. Green is always good haha.
I am so happy that I saw your post on threads because this is exactly what I needed to find myself after a few months of struggle. I want to commit to this challenge for this beautiful month of May before I turn 18!! Lately something that has been bringing joy into my life are the sunny days, I feel more motivated and inspired🤍
Mar so good to have you here. And before you turn 18 you're choosing to show up for yourself! That's beautiful!
Love this and shared my answer to this prompt in my most recent note! Enjoying reconnecting to my writing that’s not academic or to be graded! Thank you for the challenge!
Also took a peek at your notes. So beautiful. That needs to be a post!
Thanks for reading and the encouragement to make it a post! I thought about it, but you’re right it might need more space to breathe.
Thank you for being here Dr. Mercedes!
I’m here from Threads! This post pulled me. I haven’t written anything since I was a teen. Now that I’ve exited survival mode. I now want to FULLY explore my GOD given talent.
One thing that bring me joy is burning lavender incense as soon as I wake up & throughout the day. It REALLY calms me and makes my days feel smooth.
Yes here for a good dose of lavender. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm so glad you are out of survival mode and making room to just be and tend your inner garden.
Hi! I’m Vida from the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. 39yo woman who is navigating life and rediscovering who I am through God’s lens.
Something small that’s bringing me joy right now are the small reminders of the good in routine and slow breaths.
Vida thank you for joining us! Yes slow breaths are everything right now.
Hi! I'm Jazmin, journaling from Spartanburg County, SC. I love journaling and getting back into writing, and I immediately had to join after seeing this via Threads. Currently, my song on repeat is Defying Gravity from WICKED, which made me get back into cycling due to Cyclebar having a WICKED theme ride lol. Mornings start by taking care of myself to be the best version of me for my son & for me. I've stopped taking care of myself, and it's time.
Jazmin thank you for being here and sharing space. Wow I may have to take a listen because I need to get my body moving. So happy to aww you're showing up for yourself.
Ish from Boston :) healing is a heavy word for me right now. Today’s prompt led to pages on pages of reflection of what healing even means in this season I am just learning to navigate. It spilled into my therapist appointment and I was confronted with my tendency to sweep my pain and grief under the rug to protect the emotions of others or to protect the image of strength I hold deep in my core. My conclusion is that right now healing just means listening. Listening to myself and the emotions or heaviness my body is carrying. Healing is being gentle to those emotions and understanding they are trying to teach me and guide me, not punish me or destroy me.
Hey Ishhhh! So good to see you here sharing space. I completely understand and empathize deeply with where you are as I'm there too. Listening is such an essential part of making room for healing. I hope you are being gentle with yourself as you listen. I hope you're making space for grace as you feel the tender parts. Sending mucho amor to you.
Hey everyone!
I love journaling, collecting journals, & cool pens to write with. It’s a goal of mine to learn calligraphy so I can make my thoughts even cooler to look back on. Recently I’ve allowed life’s demands to drag me out of one my most healthy habits. I’m here to get back into it on the daily! Thank you for creating this space! 💜 I’m very glad to be among likeminded souls.
Diamond you're at the right place. I actually teach calligraphy. I'm hoping to do an online sesh again once I gather my bearings. So happy you're here.
hey and good morning 🤍 thanks for this space! it’s been a while since I’ve journaled in pen (I love audio journaling) so this is just what I needed to return to it.
what’s healing me rn is having fun with community. enjoying concerts and movies that with loved ones and being fully immersed in the stories told 👏🏾
Hey LaVonna. So good to have you. here! Yes I've been telling myself to hit the movies soon!
hey, im grateful to be writing and also super thankful for the founder of all of this it's great work and highly appreciate! I've been feeling glad lately for s'mores !! I found out I'm great at making those and just that has rewire little by little my empowerment
Daniela welcome y bienvenidos. I am so grateful ya'll showed interest because now I don't have to do it alone. I love s'mores. Yum just the taste of chocolate and marshmallow sounds so good today.
I’m joining you after seeing your post on Threads just yesterday. I joined on a whim. I’m finding joy in the spring weather - and looking around to name all the things that are still good.
Laura welcome! I am so happy you found your way here and that you are taking part in this experience. Yes to the Spring weather, I was recently in the DMV area and the Spring there is just glorious. Thank you for being here! Welcome.
Thanks for holding space and for creating i&i 🫀
Yes! You're welcome!
Morning! I'm journaling from Georgia! I'm joining this challenge after I saw your post on Threads last night and this is right on time as I said earlier this week I wanted to get back to jounraling. I started making candles a month ago and it gives me a little joy as I navigate grief.
Hey Tareasha thank you for joining us! Yes to candles, Maybe light one up when it's time for writing. I'm glad you have an outlet for your grief.
I’m Sherrell from Baltimore MD. I have been journaling for a while & I love having prompts. A small thing that has been bringing me joy is a beautiful tea I’ve been drinking. Healing right now looks like not accepting discomfort caused by others. Instead of holding it in, now, I tell the person. 🙏