I hold my breath when I draw....

laughing here....

it is one of those days for me - and by that I mean I have a monstrous neck/headache - that usually means I can't even hope to do anything creative other than drawing in my moleskin sitting quietly with a heating pad on my neck.  I've been to physio this morning so I am hopefully on my way to feeling better in the next day or two. 

so I am sitting here drawing and my head keeps pounding - worse than before I was drawing - and I realise that I hold my breath when I draw.  heh. not exactly the best thing for a headache - so I am attempting to stop that habit.  drawing distracts me from my pain - and it's always good to learn new things.....even if that is learning to breathe while I draw ;)

Honesty.....

      How honest are you in your journaling? Or maybe a better question is - do you let others read your honest entries?

I have chronic whiplash and some days are bad...let's just say it's not pretty.  On those days I can't do much of anything let alone sit at my art table and create.  When I try to create on one of these days - my negativity tends to come out and my journaling usually ends up as more of a bitch session than anything else.

I guess it's as real as it gets.

My journals are essentially open books - I let anyone and everyone read what they would like to.  I am basically quite a private person and anything involving another person I do disguise my writing after getting it out.  Some of my pages have my deep dark thoughts under layers of paint.  Going back months later to try to read them - I find I have forgotten what I've written!!  If that's not good therapy then I don't don't what is!!

A couple of weeks ago I woke with one of my horrible neck/headaches and all I wanted to do was sit at my table and create....this is what I created....

  Journaling is very new to me and I do struggle with pretty much all aspects of it. I would love to hear your thoughts on honesty in journaling....