December 31, 2018 self-care-embracing creativity through journaling

Among my goals for this school year was to have better work/life balance.
Among my goals to achieve that for the winter break was to do some journaling, especially with prompts from this book.

So here are two entries the book inspired me to complete.

   

And:
  

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