where do you bare your soul?

My journal is my safe place. It holds everything I am. Everything that is truly me.
When I don’t feel safe anywhere else, my journal is there.
A blank page waiting for me. Never judging. Never expecting. Simply there.
And when I need to let it all go and just breathe.
I am there.
And when I need to figure out the jumbles of my mind.
I am there.
I never hold back. Never try to be something or someone I’m not.
The years of journals now fill a chest.
There is a chest full of me.
And it absolutely blows me away.
So much of my life could have been forgotten.
And maybe at times, I wish it had been.
But, it’s there.
My words.
My heart.
Me.
While I love this little world I’ve created here on Le Musings….
I have to be honest, it is not nearly as pure.
Because I know it’s not completely safe.
Nothing will replace my journal….and I pray the day my kids are able to put their own thoughts into words, I can pass on the gift to them as well.
What about you?
Where do you bare your soul?
What gives you that sense of freedom?
© 2009 “Le Musings of Moi”
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  1. I have tons of old journals too. Although, I’ve found that since I’ve started blogging, I don’t write in them nearly as much. It’s like I use all my writing energy up blogging and then don’t have any left to journal…it’s something I’m working on.

  2. I still keep a journal and I’ve had once since about the second grade. I vent some on my blog, but you’re right that is not always the safest place when it comes to something super personal.

  3. Typically, I bare my soul to the Lord…but I do also try to journal. I have several journals, but they don’t take up a whole trunk. I’m trying to keep a pregnancy journal now…but I’m not doing so well, I only have a few entries…hopefully that will pick up in the 2nd half here.

    Good for you…it’s a wonderful release and also helpful to go back and see how far we’ve come!

  4. I’ve kept a journal since 4th grade. I threw away all journals from before I met my husband because they were wrought with things he knew but that I don’t need a reminder of (ex-boyfriends, benders, my very non-Christian past). But I have every journal since. I really especially love to look back and see what I think about my kids, especially right before and after their births. 🙂

  5. Merry Christmas, my sweet friend!!! I’m caught up on all your awesome “musings,” now I just have to talk to you in person!!! Miss you TONS and can’t wait to catch up soon. LOVE YOU and Happy New Year!!!

  6. I’ve always loved journaling..though I don’t know if I’d ever want to pass them down! I get kind of dark and depressing. Blogging began as a journal but soon there were just too many people I know IRL to really let go. I’m kind close though.

    (I LOVE that photo.)

  7. That’s cool that you keep a journal still. I stopped about a year ago. I guess since I started blogging, but really should start a new 1 with the new year.

  8. Blogging is as close as I get. Although when I’m mad, I’ll write the occasional letter bearing all my feelings and then throw it away!

  9. You know, honestly, I’ve never kept a journal. My blog is it. Well, when I was pregnant I did start one for my daughter but it never really took off. I do wish now that I kept one cause I’m the only one who knows who I am, truly knows. No one will ever truly know that and I wish I kept one for my daughter. So she knew who I was growing up. Now, this is why I have kept my blog. I plan to print all my posts and put it in a binder for her when she grows up. I better get on the ball with printing though cause I’m on 303 posts now.

  10. My soul is locked away deep down inside. Although i come off as super blunt and honest, i keep a lot stored away inside my heart. Its my way of protecting myself. As people get to know me better, i let more and more out but very slowly…its takes time to truly know me.

  11. I kept journals for most of my life. It was always a safe place for me too. Now I don’t have one, but my yoga practice has become an excellent outlet for baring my soul and allowing me to feel free. Even though it’s not verbal, it still does the trick. 🙂

    Oh and of course I still blog, but you’re right…there are things that I wouldn’t put online for the world to see.

  12. I kept a few journals when I was younger…don’t really anymore. Guess my blog is my journal!

  13. Mines also in my journal… and stored in my heart… there are some things, I just can not write down.

  14. I don’t journal. I probably never will. I think I’ll live on through the pictures I take.

  15. I think I should start writing in a journal. I think I fear someone will find it… but I think it might be therapeutic. Healthy. Healing.

    I am going to do it.

    Thank you for ONCE AGAIN inspiring me!

  16. Deep down in my heart and in my mind. I can’t find the time to even blog these days, let alone write. I think its fabulous that you do!

    Miss you lady!

  17. i write it in a my blog but i dont post it 😀

  18. I kept (and I mean kept for over 30 years) journals as a tween and teen.

    I really thought that blogging was the new ‘journal’ – but it really isn’t private.

  19. I just started a separate blog this week that is totally private. You are right public blogging isn’t true most of the time. You hold back so that people don’t judge you. At least I felt like that sometimes.

  20. I love to journal, although I havent in quite some time. I think you inspired me to start again.

    Some times I blog because I feel I should… out of obligation to my readers.. but most of the time it is my outlet. My journal. Yet, there is no outlet like writing on a clean sheet of paper in my journal. Refreshing and free.

  21. I used to journal all the time-and my faer was that someone would find it-and judge. He did-and it was ugly. Now when I feel the urge to write those things down I do & then destroy them. I mourn the days of being able to be completely free to write what I feel or experience… How many memories I’ve lost.

  22. I used to write in journals but found this wonderful thing called a Blog and I really like typing instead of writing with a pen. Some people don’t like the things I write or how I write but I didn’t start it for them I started it to relieve me….:) xoxo

  23. I bear my soul to my good friends on the phone. I just never got into the habit of writing them down because I think my mom or dad when I was younger would have found them! So – It is blog, or phone for me..;)

  24. I bear my soul to my good friends on the phone. I just never got into the habit of writing them down because I think my mom or dad when I was younger would have found them! So – It is blog, or phone for me..;)

  25. I bear my soul to my good friends on the phone. I just never got into the habit of writing them down because I think my mom or dad when I was younger would have found them! So – It is blog, or phone for me..;)

  26. There is NOTHING like pen/pencil on paper. The thoughts and feelings literally flowing out onto the paper…so organic and healing. I love writing in my journal too. It’s def my safe place as well! xo

  27. I kind of wish I hadn’t abandoned my diaries as a teenager! Maybe it’s time to take up the habit again. : )

  28. I love the way you wrote this. I pour out my soul to the ears and hearts of my closest friends. My blog is also a place, but I am careful about what I share there.

  29. i never had a journal but when i feel really really bad i always had the need to let it out on paper. now i sort of do it on my blog. some people might think it’s crazy to open up like that in a place anybody can access but it has been so rewarding!

  30. Ummmm…the mall?

  31. i’m right there with you on the journal bandwagon….i was just reading through an old one a few days ago…so crazy how life changed so quickly…i don’t even remember the girl who wrote those pages all those years ago!