Thank you for all of the kind, supportive comments on my first post! It really motivated me to keep up with my walking and journal goals!

Here are a few recent pages. I had a procedure in the middle so needed some time to recover so haven't been able to keep up daily walks, but did my best!

EXCITING UPDATE: I actually got called in for surgery this coming Tuesday (the estimated wait was November). So it looks like this journal will be how I track my recovery walks vs. tracking walks leading up to surgery.🤞🏼 It works and I can start regaining strength and getting my life back!!

04 Outubro 2026

(naming my journal "moth journal" because of accidental moth/butterfly theme throughout it)

Bonus terrarium notebook pages detailing some of my design processes and thoughts. A vanilla latte tied it all together for me. Plus the sun came out while I walked along the pier ^_^

These are my last entries in this journal, and I’m kinda proud because even though I love journaling, I always get bored halfway through and just forget about it. This is the first time I’ve actually filled one all the way to the last page. :) From 06.08 to 02.10 150 pages of doodling and leaving Instagram helped. 😂

I had my 21th birthday last month and i am getting desperate now. Its getting harder to hope for a friend now. Its like I am getting punished for wanting and not deserving on the other hand.

Pages of today c: 🌹

I'm in between journals at the time and needed a place to put my thoughts or my brain would explode. Thus, The Layover Logs was born! First layover: JFK!

Journal: Random pack of 40(ish) bulk pack of mini Kraft notebooks

Page 1 Ink: Diamine Sepia (couldn't stand how DRY it was so had to switch to the black you see for the rest of the entry)

Page 2 onward: Pilot Prera in CM nib with Hongdian Black ink.

Hi everyone! This is my first post in this sub, and I'm looking for some advice. I started journaling two years ago in September when my anxiety and panic attacks got to the point where I felt like I couldn't even leave the house. I was agoraphobic, and I used to journal every single day and track my progress: what I did that day, whether I went out, who I went out with, what books I read, how work was going, etc.

Thankfully, over time I started to manage my anxiety better and better, and I'm no longer in that mental place. However, I kept journaling every day because it had become part of my nightly routine. And I did that, as I said, for almost two years.

Lately, though, I've started to feel a sort of resistance or laziness towards journaling, and it's been almost a month since I last wrote anything in my journal. At first, I started writing every 2–3 days, then once a week, and now I haven't written anything since the beginning of September.

So my question is: do you have any advice? Should I keep going? Should I take a break? Or maybe try a different form of journaling and move away from doing it daily? I feel like I still love writing, but right now I don't really have any direction or know what I want journaling to look like for me anymore. Thank you!!!

I'm in love with my first journal and it has been a pleasent journey to learn how it works for me 🤎

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly" - G. K. Chesterton.

It feels nice to wake up and have a cup of tea while writing about what's on my mind.It could very easily go wrong focusing on the negatives and venting but I've been told to write in a solution focused way and also qualitative way-such as listing the achievements of the day. And that's working.Do y'all have any tips towards improving mind clutter through journaling?

I used to feel like journaling only counted if it was a full page. Lately the days I write one honest sentence are the ones I actually go back and read months later. The long entries mostly just sit there. Anyone else notice this?

Context:

I got married in 2019 and had my daughter in early summer of 2020.

I was completely independent before being manipulated into getting married at 20 years old to someone I met at 18 years old.

I worked full time before I had my daughter in 2020. I couldn't go back to my previous workplace due to a previous assault there and could only find part-tme work after covid. He was able to do customer service from home and keep his full-time job. But I returned to work 2 months after giving birth so we were both working during this entry.

I had my own bank account before we got married, but I was made to delete it in favor of a "joint marriage account." I didn't have access to any billing accounts until several bills went unpaid, then I only had access to those to ensure they would be paid on time.

I had two children with this man. We finalized the divorce last year in 2025 but have had additional legal proceedings since then as he has not been holding up his end of the agreement. I'm just happy to be out.

I recently finished my b6 journal notebook in just under 2 months and I’m happily settled in my newest one— an A5 notebook 💛

Truthfully I’m so sad to finish the b6 because the paper is just so fountain pen friendly, and I recently started using dip pens and sadly, the A5 notebook doesn’t take that well 😭

But overall I’m so happy to be in a bigger notebook!

I lost my journal with 6 months of entries in it and I'm so upset. I went through the hardest break up of my life in that time and had so many important thoughts in there. I feel like I lost them all over again.

I never was consistent with journaling, but the last 6 months I was incredibly disciplined with it, and now it's all gone... I work at a hotel and sometimes I'll journal on my break, and I left it *somewhere* but nobody has turned it in, and I've looked everywhere.

I'm not sure if I have a question, mostly just needed to say it somewhere. I guess I could ask has anyone else dealt with losing an incredibly important journal?

I think this is the first time I wrote in two pages. Also, my handwriting gradually getting smaller.

I liked writing in cursive more because I don't have to lift my hand too often, anyone like that too?

every now and again a rage page is the only way.
anyone else? as someone who’s journals are generally neat and tidy it feels is good to scribble all over the page and make a mess

I was recently dignosed with a disease that increases my risk of stroke, heart attack, dementia, and physical/cognitive decline. I'm in my 30s and have a preschooler.

I've journaled most of my life, but have never created a legacy journal. I want it to be something she can connect to if something happens to me. I'm not sure what it will look like yet. So I thought people who also love journaling may have good ideas/prompts. Any would be appreciated!

03 de Outubro de 2026 em tons de azul claro

O da esquerda é o diário em que escrevi de finais de Agosto e todo o Setembro. O da direita é o que comecei em Outubro. (Ambos comprados na Amazon ES)

I created a summary grid and space for some reflection but my grid was heartfelt enough that I didn’t need to write anymore. Then I captured the essence of September in the front page of the journal which I call my “happy page.” I want it to be a page when looked upon again in the future, I read what brought me joy that month. Finally, some daily gratitude expressed.