JournalSpeak has been a big topic on my Substack lately, and I get so many questions about how to do it “right.” And while JS is a very private (and individual) daily practice, I thought it might be helpful to share the trajectory of my writing last night so you can see how, when you trust it to do so, this practice takes you exactly where you need it to.

So I started off detailing my day — how does it feel to be me today? is something I often ask myself. Something had happened that morning that had triggered me, landing me on this idea of being “copied” and what that was bringing up. What I realized is it’s the idea of not being recognized for my ideas that was triggering me. And from there, I ended up in my childhood — I was small, shy, and soft-spoken, and I felt I often would share an idea and then feel steamrolled. Like people were running with my thoughts, but never knowing that they had come from me.

So why am I so bothered when I don’t feel “recognized”? There is obviously a childhood wound there. But the adult version of me has control over that… so maybe it’s because, as a hyper-critical perfectionist, I’m not even fully recognizing/seeing myself?

And that, ultimately, is how you go from simply “complaining” about your day to hitting a root and working through the stuck emotions that are keeping you sick.

Not every day of JS flows perfectly, and sometimes I’m just writing “I don’t want to fcking write right now” — ALLOW FOR IMPERFECTION & EXACTLY WHAT IT NEEDS TO BE.