04/02/2026
If you’ve been itching to (re)start journaling, this is such a lovely place to start. Come join us! 📝
If I had a dollar for every student who has looked at me with a mix of longing and shame and said, “I wish I journaled more regularly,” I could retire to a cottage on a lake and buy only the fancy journals with the ribbon bookmarks.
The point is this: the guilt about not journaling enough is practically universal among women who care about their inner lives.
We buy the beautiful notebook. We intend to write every morning. We miss a day, then a week, then three months, and now the notebook sits on the nightstand, decorated with dusty bunnies we should name.
Then we start to believe that the problem is us—our discipline, our follow‑through, even a lack of self-value.
The White Horse: Here’s what I’ve learned after all these years of teaching and writing and, yes, still occasionally ignoring a perfectly good notebook: the problem isn’t our commitment. The problem is trying to do it alone.
Neurologically, women’s brains are wired for connection in ways we’re only beginning to fully understand.
Oxytocin—the bonding hormone—is amplified by estrogen, so when women share, make eye contact, or sit in trusted community, their brains reward them with a cascade of calm. Cortisol drops. The nervous system settles. What *feels* good is actually healing.
Join our Women's Journaling Community today - journal together with women who get it - and feel better.
Read more and register now: https://www.holisticjournaling.ca/morningtides
Hope to see you tomorrow!
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