The Power of Pen to Paper Journaling

Going Back To Basics To Uncover The Best of You

Think back to the last time you opened a blank journal, picked up a pen and just started to write. Was it this week’s grocery list? When you took notes in college? Wrote your junior high crush a love note? Or maybe when you penned an epic story of friendship and betrayal based on your 5th grade ex-best friend? That last one was probably just me…

In the last few decades, our day to day written communication has become almost exclusively digital. We send email, we text, we type any long form content on a keyboard, onto a screen, and to be fair we do it all for good reason. Digital writing is quick, efficient and accessible; we NEED to be able to type our words and send them right away. But what about the simple beauty and vital mental care of picking up a pen and writing out those words on paper? Let’s take a look at that.

I started a journaling habit this year in earnest. I’ve written words in notebooks my whole life, hence my current career, but it’s always been sporadic and without real purpose; I was documenting intensely boring days or bemoaning another personally perceived wrong. This year, however, I began to…