a note

4/29/2018–There are a ton of journaling resources on this website. If you have suggestions for any way I can support you on your journaling journey with additional content please let me know.

And to be clear, let’s get deep and stay there. I’m not a bullet or art journaler (my journaling style is essayist/stream of conscious) but I believe those can also be meaningful ways of telling when the THOUGHT feeding onto the journaling pages is rich. Hence #thinkingteastainedwoman. We can’t journey soulfully if our minds are muddled, contaminated, scattered, frustrated; zoned out or drugged up by fantasy, insecurity, entertainment, anxiety, or fear. Before we write, we have been thinking. (2022 note: Ngiyacabanga means “I have been thinking” in Xhosa. In Wolof it’s “Magui xhalaat”.)

Call out the abnormalities in your mind so when you pick up your pen everything that lands on that page belongs there so that whenever you set out you’re “doing” according to the truth living in your mind. It’s not just about you. Not just about now. This is your mandate. This is your power.