Visual journaling is a powerful way to explore your inner world—your thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and body sensations. This practice can be especially meaningful when you begin deepening your visual journaling practice through additional forms of expression. This is often referred to as intermodal — moving from one form of expressive arts into another. What Other Modalities Can You Add to Visual Journaling? In addition to visual art, you might explore: Movement or dance Sound and voice...

Many people arrive to therapy sessions realizing they have forgotten much of what happened during the week. When life is busy, it is easy to only remember what occurred in the day or two before the appointment. Important thoughts, emotional reactions, and experiences that happened earlier in the week may be lost. Keeping a visual journal between therapy sessions can be a powerful way to capture those moments.  A journal creates a space where you can express thoughts, feelings, and experiences...

In visual journaling, there is a subtle but powerful shift that can happen when we stop explaining our art. This practice—often described as letting your image speak—invites a deeper way of listening to your art, in other words "witnessing". Witnessing your art means allowing what you’ve created—an image, a collage, a mark on the page—to speak to  you rather than about  you. Instead of analyzing, fixing, or judging what you made, you pause and listen. You notice. You stay curious. You allow...