Just because you're having a bad day..or an entire s-t-r-e-t-c-h of bad days doesn't mean you should drop your pens and paints and run.
Don't stop journaling just because times are good...or, times are bad. I've talked to journal keepers all over that tell me that either they wouldn't dream of putting anything "happy" in their journal or conversely, people who prefer not to belly-ache much on the page.
Ask yourself, what is your journal for? Does your journal adequately represent you if you if you lean toward only one emotion?
Do your stormy times scare you so much that you're afraid to explore them?
Do you think that writing or creating art in celebration of happiness makes you unauthentic, or appear silly?
Embrace all that you feel on the page. Your resulting journal will be a three-dimensional representation of the real you.
Journal prompt: In writing or art, explore a particularly bad day in the coming week. It can be a day in the past or something that happened recently. Don't worry, no one has to see it. Only you and I will know it's been a very bad day.





