Tiffy's Journal

We have a lot of words to describe the process of something coming into out consciousness and then we tag that memory somehow. There are different ways of being aware, and therefore different ways to approach journaling. Noticing Seeing, noting, spotting. The act of something popping into your mind and you mentally marking it. Recording Transcribing reality into the journal from an objective perspective. Documenting Recording and storing a conclusion. Witnessing The goal is

Witnessing is such a beautiful term in journaling. I also use "observe" and "analyzing" but there is a peacefulness to witnessing. Witnessing is outside yourself. You are simply there. You aren't going out your way to make any particular observations, conclusions, or to collect data to analyze. There's no mission associated with witnessing outside of the witnessing itself. It is the present and still part of journaling.

Awareness Noticing what is. Observing thoughts, feelings, and surroundings. 2. Curiosity Asking questions about your awareness. Wondering what else you can do with it. Exploring possibilities. 3. Meta-Awareness Awareness + Curiosity > Meta-Awareness. Realizing that you are aware. Observing your own noticing and reflecting on what you find. 4. Agency / Intentionality Choosing where to focus your attention and how to respond intentionally. Life design. Intentional time. Chosen

This journal is dear to me because it is the one that began my love and intrigue for journaling. The entire reason I started journaling was to keep me from sinking into a place where I believed everything in life was bad. I started really getting into journaling in 2021. I decided I would have a gratitude journal but, I felt too down for gratitude to be accessible so I started with a "what doesn't suck" approach. I would journal about decent weather, acceptable traffic on my

I've been thinking about LYJ and what it is trying to quantify. Funny enough, I don't want to quantify it too much as to not take away from the cultivation of your own system. I don't want people to have my system, but I do want them to understand that journaling is worth acknowledging as its own entity in the same way that we acknowledge meditation, yoga, therapy and other internal health and wellness practices. I also want to point out, it's impossible to fully capture wh

I've went back and read my own entries. I've been thinking about why I am no longer attached to my old journals . I plan on using their pages to create art pieces where I once would have done everything I can to protect them. Why? I know this is a shift for me. You don't just go from being protective over source material to just seeing it as art. Why is it a droste now? Why did it shrink? Why do I feel like I'm a staircase above it? Growth ⇄ Expansion Growth is upward, exp

Love 3/5/26 I can't call the feeling positivity It looks like memories, upcoming and past, with my family and friends. It's understanding that the people that are in life with us right now, all the strangers, are our life partners. They are the people who are living in this current period with us right now... They aren't nobody. They aren't strangers or distant, they are sharing a Now with us. It's not confidence that I feel, it is knowing. This isn't joy that I feel, it is r

Though I do advocate for the forming of your own, unique journaling ventures, I cannot have my own journaling philosophy without a "story" to anchor it in. The philosophy is in the connections between what I learned. The recurring themes that resurface and connect my journals is what my philosophy is based on. No rules, habits or "supposed-tos". I tracked the happenstance that was already governing my journals and acknowledged them as law. Awareness came first. I practiced be

I'm appreciating unfathomable gratitude today. Lately, I've just been thinking. Why does God do what he does for me? Who am I supposed to be? I'm not anybody and I don't deserve it. None of my blessings are worked for. I didn't pull any of them out, I have not extracted a thing yet everything falls in place. I could say I'm a life designer, That I walk in faith and I am rewarded because of that, That I have a "mission" that i'm on or that I'm a "vessel" being used for a great

Arrival is the feeling of "alignment". It is noticing that you are living in accordance with your values. Compare this to living for you goals...

If you're willing to ask about something, that's demonstrating bravery. Usually when we are afraid of something, we want nothing to do with it. We just decide it's threatening and that's it. We get avoidant, rather than inquisitive.

I think about the parallels between journaling and meditation often. I think of meditation as spending time between thoughts, non-judgement of thoughts and feelings, respect of what's happening internally without fighting or arguing with it. That usually looks like sitting quietly, eyes closed, being harmonious, watching thoughts go by. But, that's what I do when I journal, no singing bowl, buckwheat cushion, or "ohms" needed. What mindfulness demonstrates is exactly what my

What you find when you look up "how to journal" advice online is some prompts, some structures, some guidance but journaling is way too personal to be plug-and-play.

A feeling of gratefulness and humility for what's grated without opportunity to earn it.

At times, I feel "out of my body." Not myself, not attuned with life, careless, diverged from my routine. I called it "motivation running out," but that's not accurate. It's existential dissatisfaction. It's what happens I notice my choices have been mismatched with what I know I can be. But what brings me back into it? What makes me satisfied again? I've found the answers, at least in part. I know there's always more to discover. The answer is challenges. When I do something

Story about how stashing journals away symbolizes the de-aggrandizing of fleeting emotions and thoughts, choosing instead to prioritize the more stable personal truths.

Language was here before you Language is one of many expressive vehicles. Language is thought, feeling, and perspective in an expressed form. It plays a role in establishing, changing, informing, and creating our belief systems, and we don't choose how our associations with particular words develop. Language was here before you. It was created by, maintained by, and evolved by all of humanity before you. — Connotation is made possible by cultural consensus. On an individual