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Part 3A: Take a behind-the-scenes peek at Olwen's visual journals.
Welcome to Part 3 of this visual journaling series!
Actually, this is Part 3A. It was becoming too large so I needed to split it into two sections. 3B will be sent out later this week.
Thank you for your patience while I roll these parts out to you. The last few months/year has been… intense.
Intense is an insignificant word for what I’ve been navigating, but I don’t have the capacity to share more about it at the moment. Just know I’m doing what I can to be ok, and so that the people, places and things I care about will hopefully be ok, too. But it’s required me to get really quiet so I could focus and recover (which is ongoing).
And I thought while I’m dealing with what I’m dealing with, perhaps sharing a creative practice that still helps me get through this thing called life, might help you incase life is also intense for you, too.
Part four will be about interpreting the fun messes you’ve made and I’ll leave you with some final thoughts and prompts. But before we dive into Part 3A, let’s review how we got here.
In Part 1: What is visual journaling?, we discussed the rules, when to do it, how it can save a life, and how boundaries make it better. Part 1 is the foundation of my creative practice.
In Part 2: What you need to visual journal and how to begin, we discussed all things supplies, how to get over your fear of the blank page, making backgrounds to get you started, how to batch your work to save time, and some prompts for you to try. There’s videos with instructions and a meditation to help you dive into making fun messes.
In Part 3A, you’ll find a few pages from my visual journals shared below. Accompanying each one is a story about how it was made and/or what it means to me and/or what inspired it into being and/or how it's helped me. You’ll also find a few prompts at the end, but Part 3B will include even more prompts, and a music playlist.
Below, you’ll see pages that even though they were created with minimal supplies, they shifted something inside me for the better.
When people choose to share their creations in one of my group settings, I always share the following guidelines:
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