Self Acceptance does not mean letting go of who you are. There are always things about ourselves that we are less comfortable with, but they are at their essence, what makes us, ‘us’. Accepting those things and integrating them into our lives instead of hiding them can be a therapeutic release. It is also important to recognize that you don’t need to prescribe to what someone else expects you to be. The Love Story provides both an online journal and an online community of Journal-Artists designed to hold space for you to process the overwhelming flood of suppressed emotions and situations that lead to where you are right now. The beginning of treating emotional challenges is creative expression. Explore how our journaling program will help you process that pain inside the genre of “Journal-Artism,” a writing modality that fuses journaling and journalism with the personal journey. Begin the process of self-acceptance you can begin to free yourself. Reveal, deal, feel, and heal.
Becoming self-aware gives you the power to break toxic habits by catching yourself in the act. Awareness is the first step to increasing emotional intelligence.
Self-respect is earned through watching yourself grow and become more in tune with your soul. Listen to your body and surround yourself with others who care about your human growth.
We all experience a full spectrum of emotions, but knowing how to handle them or knowing what triggers them is key to knowing yourself. Knowing yourself will boost confidence, and confidence is key in accepting yourself.
Try guided meditation to bring down your heart rate and begin to hear and feel what your body is telling you. Giving your time and space to just ‘be’ will provide you with the creative expression you need to lay the foundation to accepting yourself.
To accept yourself you must first see your true self
Explore self understanding shared from others with our archive of over 750+ Journal Entries, designed to activate your subconscious.
Identify your story by exploring over 100+ artist interviews about transforming dismissal and self-loathing into artistic expression.
Are you ready to journal your truth? Download Your Love Story Digital Diary Here.
We are a community of Journal-Artists who have struggled with accepting themselves as they are and prescribing to what someone else wants you to be. We are also working through the process of forgiving ourselves. Be seen, be heard, be a part of. Begin the process of forgiveness on your own timing and pacing. Be among a community of kindred spirits who are hearing, supporting and understanding one another, peer to peer.
Features of Act I
- Peer to peer journaling
- Processing hatred in fiction
- Judgement-free zone
- For us by us, community others working on forgiveness
Testimonials about Journaling in Act One
“You have the ability to just be like, ‘you know, this is my truth and if anybody doesn’t like it that’s fine because as far as they are concerned, everything that I’m saying is not real.’ It’s really helpful to know that people aren’t gonna to know what’s real, what’s not real, with what you write. You can release things and nobody will be the wiser about it.”
“I want to go back and explore. Why did it happen when it happened. …Women often suppress their emotions…we think, ‘if I just swallowed that back, it’ll go away,’ and it’s like ‘Nope! Still here.’ and so I think I’m starting to really figure, I can’t swallow that back. I need to let things out.”
“The point of journaling is to really just look inside and be like, ‘okay, what is this? Why am I feeling it? And what do I do with it?’ And that’s sort of what you have to ask yourself when you are journaling.”
