The Onion Skin Journal

I spend a lot of time wondering how to get back to a previous version of me. A wilder me, who drank coffee at ten pm, and sat up all night writing on the floor in my underwear, admiring the movement of my body, the intensity of my heart. The version that blasted music too loud in my car while going too fast down the highway, feeling the fire of freedom and ache of aloneness like a drug. A version before all the paperwork and responding to emails, and tap here and click that, before the exhaustion of early motherhood.

But what if it’s not about finding the older verisons of ourselves, but discovering the newer ones? Who is this me who lays in awe staring into my baby’s eyes and feels what love unencumbered by the need to be loved feels like for the first time. Or the version of me that feels liberated by breathing through discomfort and not burying it. The version of me that is willing to speak my shames, a little louder, so that those in the back can hear, and step a little closer.

What if the taste of the wildness ahead of us is more and deeper that the previous version of us could hold? What could be more interesting than discovering the undiscovered?

The Black Original Ouroboros Onion Skin Journal🖤

The Original Onion skin Journal. In stock (for now;)

We spend a lifetime trying to love ourselves. People say “love yourself!” to each other all the time. Like it was a choice one could simply make. But as a lot of us know, it’s not that simple. I’ve found that it’s my ego that carries past shames which makes it hard to feel that love for myself at times….but my soul—my soul feels rapture and awe and is wildly and unconditionally in love with the miracle of my heart. Getting to know my soul is the best tool I know for self love.

And that’s one of the reasons I keep a journal. I used to write Dear Diary, and at some point it shifted as a letter to myself. Dear Vanessa. You are the divine unfolding. Witness this miracle of life. Help others. You are exactly where you are meant to be. Love, Vanessa…it’s easy to talk to myself this way, from my higher self. I often bring my higher self problems, and it amazing how we already know our solution, when we speak to ourselves from that place. I hope you try it.

I miss passing folded notes in class.

It is with great pride that I show you guys this mood board created with as inspiration behind The Onion Skin Journals new branding. I wanted something that felt warm and old and contemporary at the same time. Like I was hanging sheer curtains in a warm wind by the ocean in Spain. Like I was walking on cobble stone street past adobe buildings with the scent of fresh earth just after it rained infusing the air. I wanted something that felt like movement, and layers while also feeling grounded. I think we achieved that, do you?

Change is good for the soul😌 Welcome to some of the new look I have been working on with - refining my brand as it grows up and making sure that the brand represents the heart and souls of what we are doing here accurately. More to be revealed…

We have been rolling out new branding slowly. This has been a fulfilling and creative process done with the amazing artist@theboldalchemist I can’t wait to show you more...