Flecks Of Gold Journal: Grey

This Journal is STUNNING! I love the color and the quality!

Even I can do this- and I stink at journaling. As someone who struggles with anxiety, I am EXCELLENT at catastrophizing and seeing the negative. This journal is helping me FOCUS on seeing what is going WELL in my life and with my children. It is shining lights on where I and and am finding JOY in my motherhood. It's small, doable, short, concise, and focused.

I have always loved capturing memories. Especially in writing form. When my oldest son was a baby I bought a “Mom’s One Line A Day Journal” that is similar in concept to Rachel’s and loved it but was wanting more. When I came across Rachel’s it was such a perfect fit and had the missing pieces I didn’t even know I was missing until I tried it out.
Not only is it a way for me to track memories, it is also a way to see my own improvements and progression as person, as a mother and as a family. It’s cool to look back and see the progression we’ve made throughout the years. Rachel has created different topics for each month which are truly inspiring and help keep me improving, checking in with myself and growing as a family. Writing these moments down helps me realize things don’t stay stagnant. The hard times will come and go which helps me savor the golden moments and focus my energy on those. My favorite thing is that I can write a lot or a little. It doesn’t matter.

I bought a journal as a gift for my sister's birthday and one for my sister-in-law who was battling cancer. When my sister opened her Flecks of Gold Journal, she laughed because her mother-in-law had also given her one. So she gifted it right back to me! In a round about way, it has become one of the greatest gifts I didn't plan to give myself. Flecks of Gold has been the first journal I've been able to keep up (nearly every day for a full year!) Even when life got busy, I was able to capture one or two lines of the magical moments I want to treasure forever. The journal is my treasure box. Every day, I find myself looking for the golden treasure throughout the day so that I can write about it. And whatever we focus on magnifies, so I'm experiencing more and more golden moments! It's more than a journal, it's a magic wand! I write in my journal and watch for more magic to happen in my life.

At the time, I was struggling with the day-to-day “stuff” of motherhood, and it seemed like the perfect thing to help me gain some perspective. I also wanted to have something special to pass on to my son (and hopefully another child) in the future. Before—especially during the pandemic—I really really struggled to see beyond the mundane, difficult, frustrating parts of motherhood. I felt completely overwhelmed with it all. Now, even on the hardest days, I consciously look for a fleck of gold, and no matter what, it’s always there, even if it seems so tiny and insignificant. Right now, since I’m in my second year, my favorite thing is looking back at the previous year when I write!