Life can be overwhelming, but mindfulness is a powerful tool that can help us get grounded and gather the courage to face whatever comes. Drawing mandalas is one physical way to practice mindfulness that works especially well for people (like me!) who get distracted during mindfulness practices. In this article, you will learn what mindfulness …

Today, I’ll introduce you to a bullet journal layout called Mood Mandala that combines mood tracking with artistic expression and mindfulness. For some bullet journalers, trackers and to-do lists can get too boring to keep our practice fun. Adding an intricately drawn mood tracker can be a solution In this article, I’ll show you: a …

Feeling ready to throw caution to the wind and howl at the moon? Maybe it’s the lunar cycle! Many highly sensitive and intuitive people believe their moods, creativity, and hormones cycle with the lunar calendar. Today, I’m sharing with you a lunar calendar bullet journal layout that can perk up your bullet journal spread and …

This packing list bullet journal layout is easy to create and so much fun to fill out! To fail-proof your next trip and bring back only wonderful memories, today I’m sharing a layout for a bullet journal packing list that will take away your trip-prepping woes. In this article, you’ll find: In most of my …

Bullet journaling in the summer is a powerful way to stay organized, productive, and moving towards your goals. Many bullet journalers abandon the habit for the warm months, but this runs the risk of a permanent ending. In this article, you’ll learn why (and how) bullet journaling through the summer can improve your break. Summer …

Tracking your emotions on paper may seem a vague idea, but it is actually achievable. Today, I will introduce you to a layout called “Year in Pixels” so you can easily start assessing your life perspectives and improve your positivity all year round. Sometime in 2016, I asked myself these questions: “How can you track …

Sometimes I wonder how, when I was younger, I didn’t understand how stressful and complicated life would be when I got older. Perhaps it’s a generational divide, and feeling overwhelmed is a normal condition in our current world filled with social media, capitalism, and various other large and small disasters. We text more than we …

  Questions about my choice of note-taking and bullet journal supplies top my Frequently Asked Questions, so  I want to take a moment to give my readers a run-down of the supplies I keep on hand every time I note take and bullet journal.  Go ahead and skip to the bottom for paper recommendations for …

Toward the end of my first year in graduate school, the year I discovered I had a knack for making pretty notes and elaborate bullet journal pages, I found myself often repeating the same few layouts, techniques, and lettering styles in my notes. As I noticed this tendency to repeat, I suspected the habit was …

As I journal about mindfulness and take notes in almost any psychology class, drawings of the brain are relevant. For the first few years as a psychology major, I seemed to always draw brains a little differently each time, sometimes more like clouds than brains. I knew I needed to develop a way to have …