Art Journaling for Wellbeing
6th July 2025
A Creative Path to Inner Calm
Feeling stuck, stressed, or in need of a low-stakes creative outlet? Art journaling offers a grounded and expressive way to reconnect with yourself.
A Parisian holiday journal
Mixed media art journal spread exploring movement, memory, and a Paris sense of place through collage and poetic text
Blending drawing, painting, collage, and writing, art journaling becomes a space to explore the inner world. It isn't about creating something polished or perfect. Rather, it becomes a container—a place to give shape to thoughts and emotions, to release stress, and to make meaning from what’s been felt but not yet spoken.
Art journaling holds space for strong emotions, supports reflection, and invites moments of insight. It encourages a rhythm of pausing, noticing, and expressing that can settle the nervous system and promote psychological flexibility. Some pages might be vivid and layered, others spare and contemplative—what matters is the process, not the product.
The Mini Guide to Art Journaling for Wellbeing introduces ways to begin or deepen a personal practice. It offers practical suggestions, accessible prompts, and creative pathways for using art journaling to support mental and emotional health.
Whether you're seeking clarity, cultivating self-compassion, or simply making room to be with what is—this practice invites presence.
Explore More
The Mini Guide to Art Journaling for Wellbeing sits alongside a curated selection of resources from around the web. When you click through, you’ll find inspiring videos, articles, and creative prompts from artists, therapists, and educators who explore journaling and creativity in different ways. Whether you're looking for techniques, ideas, or insight into the power of creative expression, there's plenty to explore.
Want to explore this further in a supportive, creative space?
Take a look at my art workshops — designed to support wellbeing through process-based artmaking, no experience needed.
Art journaling as a reflective practice exploring emotion, movement, and place through abstract visual language.