My Top 10 Favorite Creative Journal Spreads! Happy Planner Flip Through & Journaling Tips
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Thank you for sharing. I decided to minimize my journal for 2024 and miss my Classic Planner but your Journal Spreads have given me the inspiration I needed to start decorating my Classic notebook. I love the blue & green girls spread. Thanks again - Beatriz
That was so funny. I heard the squeaks and turned around and looked at my dog because I thought it was him. He looked at me like “what?! I’m not making that noise.” lol. I love animals and their expressions.
I love your spreads! Thanks for the inspiration. Also, I appreciate your vulnerability. It helps to know that I’m not alone.
Thanks for showing up and showing real life. Makes you so relatable. Definitely encourages me to journal as it’s such a great way to process feelings. I had no idea about your son. I’m so extremely sorry 😢. You have really been through it and are in my prayers. I know God put you in this position to help others through grief with creativity and lots of laughs at you and bumble and squeaking toys. Keep your beautiful head up. You have no idea how much joy you being us! Wonderful things will happen for you… just wait and see.
Oh Mary Ellen, you’ve been through so much loss and trauma! What a resilient woman you are! 💜 Creative journaling has become my favourite thing in planning so I absolutely loved this video! Thanks for sharing your spreads with us. Creativity can help with grief so much. Yes you absolutely just learn to live with grief, it really never does go away. The birthday sunshine spread is my favourite!
I’d love more creative journaling content. I love your style and find your creativity so inspiring. 🩷
I'm starting creative journaling because of you. Thank you for being so honest and vulnerable enough to share what you are going through. I like that you state that you don't always get to plan or journal and that's okay. That's life. Sending you love and healing as you continue on your journey with grief and this thing we call life. ✨✨
Wow! This is such a powerful, inspiring and interesting use of a planner. Gorgeous! So cool.
Praying for God's peace and comfort in your life 🙏. Grief is so very hard. Thank you for sharing your journey and beautiful journals. It inspires and helps others through their journey's.
I love all your after the pen spreads! The ones you call messy... I really LOVE them. So creative!
I love LOVE that recovery girls one.
YOU HAVE CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT MY JOURNAL. I want to try it your way in April! Yours is so creative and meaningful.
Literally can never pick a favorite of yours, they are all so unique and creative!!!🌟
I think my most favorite is the one with the photo realistic girls and butterflies.
My two oldest (grown) kid’s dad died in 2021 and we are all grieving it pretty hard. Going on year three come July. I’m so sorry for your loss. 💔
I’m just starting journaling. I’ve done it here and there in the past as well but this is the first time I’ve done it for longer than a week and I love this! Thank you for showing them!
I started creative journaling because of you. So thank you!!!
Sending you much love and prayers as you continue to navigate your personal grief journey.
Any beginner videos for creative journals would be great. Yours look fabulous. I'm going through something that Journaling about it would help me release the anxiety and fear. I'll look up the Playlist you mentioned.💖😊
I recently broke off a toxic 25 year relationship and I too am lost. Even when it’s the right thing to do it’s hard to figure what to do next. I have all the right stuff but continue to put off starting my 2024 journals. I keep asking myself what the heck is wrong with me?? So I get it. Keep looking at the spreads you love and you will get inspired, I am sure of it!
There is nothing wrong with you! Even if you ended the relationship you still have so much to process. My 23 year marriage ended 5 years ago and it has taken me five long years to finally be in a place where I feel like I’m beginning to find my way back to the person I was before narcissistic abuse derailed me for over two decades. It’s enough that you want to journal right now! I will say it really does help. I had three journals on the go for a long time. A gratitude journal, a rage journal, and a brain dump journal. It’s baby steps. One sentence, three things to be grateful for each day, and rage away when you need to. Now I have one journal and all the rage is gone. You will get there. Maybe not right away, maybe in waves, but you will get there, I promise to you and everyone else reading this comment going through it. You can do it! Love, stranger on the internet!
@@juliagoolia72 thanks for taking the time to give such a thoughtful reply. I’m just so mad at myself for wasting so much of my life. At this point it’s probably my last relationship so I am definitely feeling the bitterness. Hoping to get to the indifference stage before it eats me away. I’ve journaled my whole life so I know the benefits I just can’t seem to make it happen. Your 3 journal approach sounds like the perfect solution. Thanks again…
I'm a total pastel girl too! Something about those colors makes me feel happier. I loved the self care in early February, and the one in December is adorable! The fact that you're so open about your life, that you don't always work in your planer...it makes me feel better about myself. Your videos give me so much inspiration Mary Ellen! Sending you big, squishy hugs!! 💝💝💝
Thanks so much for sharing Mary Ellen💜I don't journal, but I bet it would be really cathartic, but unfortunately I don't have the time. I like to use what little time I do seem to have to work on my planner. 😉💜
I don’t journal because I don’t seem to have much going on in my life (sadly 😂), so there doesn’t seem like there is anything to write, but I love your spreads and will take them as inspiration in my planner ❤️
I struggle with journaling and sometimes I won’t because I don’t have a page decorated. Creative journaling looks fun. I would like to try to incorporate some junk journaling into it also
I love these spreads, even the ones that a bit gloomy bc it’s a great avenue to heal & put things into perspective somehow. I really need to go back to creative journaling soon …it has help in the past but I’m so stressed lately that I’ve only done daily sketches to still be creative without the pen sort of speak. Thank God for therapy, without it I will be so lost & it helps cope during the month but next month is going to be tough…we’ll see how that goes. 🦋💎🙏🏻🩵🙏🏻💎🦋
I’ve been journaling for a very long time but just switched to a more creative style about 9 months ago and I love it. That said I’m not creative or artsy at all so these videos do help give me ideas. TFS I wish you peace and healing
Thank you so much for your spreads!!!. You give me so much encouragement.
Hello Maryellen... That was fun! I love Flip Throughs. They are all really beautiful spreads. I love the LLP Self Care spread. Those colors. Hugs❤
I loved them all, but that last one with the butterflies was extra. Super loved it!!
When pages get hard to turn I just re-punch them to get rid of the little tiny bits of paper that are causing the problem. It really helps. I just remove the bottom piece and turn the punch over so I can see through the holes to line it up.
I like all the spreads in this video, but I really love the April/May 2022 and the blue and green one with the girls in Sept. of 2023!!
love your journaling! these are amazing!
Your creativity is always amazing to me. I know my own spreads have improved over the last few years, but I always see something you've done that seems so unique. My favorite (I think) was the blue and green from the fall, but many were fabulous. Sending you positive thoughts as you navigate the difficult times in your life. 🌺🌸☘
You inspired me to use creative journaling to manage my thoughts and feelings (weather it be happy, sad or anything in between) So far it has been a great tool. Being able to see how others handle grief and how they cope and manage because I too, am still trying to navigate the sudden passing of my father. Thank you for being so open and honest. It helps people more than you even know.
You are my favorite ever! Lots of hugs for you during these hard times.. I am currently dealing with cutting off family members who aren’t healthy in my life. It hurts.. but your videos motivate me to keep going & remind me that it’s okay to not be okay. Keep your head up Mary Ellen, you got this 🫶🏻❤️🩹
I’m sorry for your loss. Be encouraged
Can’t pick a fav! You have inspired me to try this (although am not creative). Grieving never ends; it’s the intensity that varies. Of late, mine has been intense & so my planner has been beyond happy colors & millions of butterflies.
I love them all! ❤
My prayers of healing to you and sorry on your son. My condolences to you and family. Amen 🙏 beautiful pages ❤️
ALL THE VIDEOS :)
I love the last one. I like that it’s so different I might try to do something similar. Thanks for inspiring me.
I love them all!!! There are bits and pieces of all them that stand out. I want to start journaling but don't know where/how to start.
Before you started I thought my favourite would definitely be that pastel LLP one with the large daisies from Love Yourself but that final spread was so different I loved that one too. I must have missed that video or maybe it wasn’t shown. Thanks for sharing. I’m always interested in which you like the best.
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Can you share where you bought the girl silhouette/nature girls in April 2022? I bought the recovery sticker book after I watched this video and they are not in there. Thank you.
My son passed away on the 5th of February 2024
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Feeling inspired by her new spread layout techniques. I've lost touch with my creativity my cats passed and now I'm also in the process of grieving my grandmother whose been in a stroke induced coma for the past 2 weeks... so Ive been struggling creatively. But its been a therapeutic experience being a part of the planner community that Mary Ellen PWB introduced me too. Now I feel the creative juices flowing again and I'm glad I didn't give up. Grateful for souls like Mary Ellen who utilizes her gifts in a way that someone like me can connect too and that helps me to process tough times too 😊 so thank you ME for your courage and transparency and glad to be part of the planner community ❤ @planningwithebony