De-clutter
I am short on time to write this week. I'm getting ready to fly to Wisconsin to visit my birthfamily again!
This will be my second trip out there. I'm so excited! I thought I would show one of the very first pages I ever did in my art journal.  I did this two years ago, in June 2010, around the time I started my birthfamily search. Making that decision was one of the most difficult, scary, and rewarding I have ever made. But first I had to get rid of all of the bad thoughts, negative voices that kept creeping into my head. 
This page reflects that time period. I enjoy art journaling not only because it is an actual record of a certain time in your life, but also the release it gives. Ahh, clean swept, clutter free.
Just doing whatever you feel like doing on the page, whatever you feel like writing, just throwing it on there. No rules. No boundaries. It's your own.
You transfer the junk from your head onto the page and help to free your mind. 
That is what art and writing do for me.