Roots and Branches

I love using vision journaling as a tangible and imaginative way to find clarity around the future I want and to identify how to get from where I am to where I want to go.

If you’ve worked with me 1:1 or in my group spaces, you’ve probably encountered this practice at least in passing.

If you haven’t tried it, or haven’t tried it in a while, it can be a very fun, playful, low stakes way to engage with big moments or to approach decisions. In other words, to describe the life you want to see so you can start to build it.

I’ve made you this free guide so you can start to explore, or deepen your practice with, vision journaling. 

Below you’ll find:

When I use vision journaling:

And why I especially use it for high-stakes or fork-in-the-road moments in my life: Think a meeting about a book deal, a keynote presentation, or starting to look for a house.

Time and again, vision journaling has been a key element for navigating these moments successfully, reducing my anxiety, and helping me to actually experience outcomes beyond anything I could have imagined. 

But I also use it to help me articulate how I want my creative practice to feel and function day to day, which is equally important. 

What a vision journal even is:

In particular, why the way we write and how we speak about what we want is an important part of this work.

How to build a monthly vision journal, plus a year’s worth of journaling prompts:

So you can start this practice even if you aren’t sure what you want to journal about first.