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SUN MOON OCEAN Journaling

 

Sun Moon Ocean is the newest in my series of free creative content hosted on my YouTube channel.

It's been a bit since I last wrote about my new journaling project, a free, self study, streamable series of videos hosted on my YouTube channel, the most recent of which was published this morning.

Each session introduces a series of prompts, ideas or techniques to enhance your journaling practice. So far we have talked about spilling (the writing, not the coffee sort), manifesting intentions, heightened self-care practices and affirmations to carry along our life journey.

These classes are starting points - you can mirror my example or adapt to better meet your own leanings. They can be done at your own pace, in your own space, alone or with a group. And because I believe that journaling should be accessible to all regardless of financial circumstances, for the foreseeable future these classes will be entirely free (although there is cost related to producing this content so please do consider donating to the cause if you can). 

I still do not have a name for the sessions (send me suggestions!). Once I have a name, I intend to create a group community for sharing pages and discoveries with each other. Meanwhile, I encourage you to reach out to a few friends and coordinate a journaling session, either in person (with warm chocolate chip cookies!) or via zoom (also, with warm chocolate chip cookies!).

JOURNALING EXPERT TIP: Place your brush water on your dominant hand side, and your beverage on your non-dominant side, to avoid dipping your brush in your wine, errr, water.

Here are the lessons to date:

New Moon Gratitude
Manifesting Hope
Soothe
Sun Moon Ocean

I hope these journaling opportunities give you permission to sit with your tools and yourself and make some important discoveries,
With peace, Kim


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