You're listening to 3 in 30 takeaways for Mom's Episode 157.

How and why to journal even if you are not a journalist.

Welcome to 3 in 30, a podcast for Mom's who want to create more meaning in motherhood.

Each 30-minute episode will feature three doable takeaways for you to try at home with your family this week.

I'm your host Rachel Nielsen. Thank you so much for being here.

It's no secret that I love to journal. If you're part of the 3 in 30 community on Instagram,

then you might have seen a photo I posted recently of me with a tower of storage bins stacked almost as tall as I am,

and every single one of them is filled with journals.

When we moved a few years ago, the friends who came to help us were so confused as they carried in boxes.

Here's another box that's labeled Rachel's journals.

So I may have a bit of a journaling problem, but that is because it has been so helpful to me throughout my life to process my emotions and experiences.

I have to admit though, ever since becoming a mom, I've struggled to consistently make time to journal, even though I know how powerful it is.

I just have very little alone time, and when I do, it feels too hard to try to put my pen to paper and make something coherent come out.

In today's episode, I'm going to be interviewing someone who is possibly even more excited about journaling than I am, which is saying something.

And she's going to give us lots of tips for how we can make journaling a part of our lives and why it is worth the effort.

Before we jump into the interview, I want to remind you that I've created a journal specifically to make it easy and impactful for moms, called Flux of Gold, and it is on sale now.

This journal is a place for you to gather the golden moments in your motherhood, those little simple joys that happen every day, even on the hardest days.

Things like your baby learning how to walk, intimately, toggling around the house with his arms outstretched.

Your soft pillow when you fall into bed at the end of a long day with the kids, or your teenager being unexpectedly kind to a younger sibling.

As moms, we need a place to record these moments so we don't forget them, and as we record them, we will start to notice them as they're happening and gain new gratitude and perspective for our lives.

Go to 3in30podcast.com slashfluxofgold to check out how beautiful these linen bound journals are and how unique the three-year documenting format is.

I love how they turned out and I truly believe every mother needs one of these, and they're on sale this week only as part of my gratitude sale to celebrate the launch of the journal.

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