Journaling as a tool to self-expansion

Sharing my favorite journaling techniques and letting you inside my personal diary. It's going to be a juicy one!

Writing this issue I realized journaling is the longest habit I have managed to keep in life. I started carrying a diary with me when I was around 10 years old. Of course back then I didn’t even know journaling was a thing. I just remember that I was inspired to start writing in a diary and doing scrapbook-like journaling after seeing movies like Mean Girls or Clueless.

Pairing words with drawings with cutouts from magazines, tons of glitter, and stickers was one of my favorite activities growing up. One of the first forms of self-expression, with no desired outcomes or pressure to make anything perfect. Those pages were just for me and no one else. Looking back I feel so much love for little Flor who was starting to explore her creative side with the tools available around her. I asked my mom back at home to send over scans of the covers of some of my childhood and teenage year journals. Tears full of nostalgia almost rolled down my face.

Oldest diary, thanks Mom for not putting these in the trash! Circa 2008