Welcome to A Lovely Life
On online gratitude journal
Let me tell you a story
I went through a bout of depression in middle school fueled by hormones and life rapidly changing around me.
Like other angsty pre-teens that came before me, I painted my room gray, started listening to 90s grunge, and even experimented with cutting myself, though I quickly decided that would definitively not help me feel better.
Also like other pre-teen girls, I loved teen magazines and making collages.
One day, in an effort to feel better, I pulled out scissors and a bin of colorful pens and started making the gratitude journal in the picture above. I cut out pictures from magazines to match the text on the page.
The result was a little silly, but lo and behold, it worked. I slowly started to feel better.
Every day I could flip through the pages and be reminded of all the things that made me want to continue living.
What is A Lovely Life
A Lovely Life is an online gratitude journal. Every Monday, I write about something new that I’m grateful for, because we can all use a little pick-me-up at the beginning of the week, can’t we?
Some weeks the entries might be as small and silly as my middle school gratitude journal, while other weeks they might be serious.
The purpose is to help me stay grateful for everything beautiful in life.
Welcome!
