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7 Common Mistakes in Journaling for Self Care

Do you journal for self care? Keeping a journal is an excellent way to take time for yourself, and is ubiquitous in modern self care advice. I’ve been journaling off and on for my entire life, and I’ve discovered a few things that ... aren't awesome ... when I’m...

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You Can Do Hard Things

A life worth living and learning from includes hard things. A life that is beautiful and full includes hard things; in all reality our lives wouldn’t be worth much at all if they didn’t include hard things. However, far to often I think we bury the hard things. And we...

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Questival

A few months ago, my brother in law told us about this crazy thing called Questival. It was too late to participate in their city, but Questival was coming to Seattle and he thought we might be interested. We’re crazy enough people that this sounded like exactly our...

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Art Journal Prompts

EDIT: This prompt journey has been archived! You can browse our available prompt journeys here. We're getting all crafty at TextMyJournal lately. (No joke - I actually made window seats last week. WINDOW seats!) In the midst of all this craftiness, we've been...

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Journaling Self Love

Today I have something extraordinary to share with you all. It’s something incredibly close to my heart and completely life changing. Talk about a dramatic hook, huh? Well, I won’t keep you guessing any longer. I want to talk about the radical notion of self love....

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The Gratitude Game

Are you gearing up for Thanksgiving? So are we. All the food has been purchased and our biggest debate is which pie we'll eat first. (We plan it in advance - it's that serious.) We've been exploring ways to express gratitude and found so many great examples. Here's a...

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Journaling to change

Children learn languages in an amazing way. They seem to absorb it and then one day just start popping out words. If you have children of your own, it's not very easy to note small changes. It's a little easier to pick up on big changes - like when kids learn to say...

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TMJ founder “texts” her journal

Recently, I had someone look me square in the eye and ask me if I used TextMyJournal like I hope others will. I sure do. I'm a little unconventional about it - I use a Google Voice number since I'm usually near my computer when I want my text prompts to come. However,...

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Buzzfeed tries out Journaling

Have you seen this? BuzzFeed had four people journal for 10 minutes a day for a month. The results were less than thrilling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=322&v=AKWZd6dXMYc The journaling was lacking direction, forcing a time constraint, and felt "like...

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July Updates

Happy summer everyone! I hope you're enjoying everything summer has to offer. We're busy working on making improvements here at TextMyJournal. You'll notice that you're now able to download pictures, video, and audio you've texted in as part of your journal. We're...

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June Updates

It's been a busy few months at TextMyJournal. Thanks to everyone who has been so patient throughout the beta testing phase! We're cleaning up a few issues we've found because of your help. There aren't enough words to thank you enough. Your feedback has been...

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What to expect – The Texts

Signing up for a new service is always a little intimidating, especially when you have no idea what to expect. To help clear up any confusion, we'll be offering a series of posts to help explain what to expect from TextMyJournal! What to expect - The Texts Step 1:...

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