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Gratidoodles: Creative Gratitude Journaling
The one practice that combines the benefits of gratitude, creative expression, and mindfulness...
AND gives you a visual record of your life
See your life with fresh eyes and reconnect to your creativity. You'll be delighted by what happens!
Gratitude journaling gets boring.
Your perfectionism makes making art more stress-full than stress-relief.
Gratidoodles are the antidote to both.
Because Gratitude + Playful Creativity = Magic
A Gratidoodle Sketchbook Tour
Illustrated Gratitude Journaling or Gratidoodling is a different way to express your thankfulness.
When you Gratidoodle regularly, you'll find you notice things more or differently. You'll ask yourself "how will I doodle this?" and the question itself will unlock different parts of your noticing brain.
And as they collect in your sketchbook, you'll have a visual record of your life. The full sketchbook is not the goal of Gratidoodling, but it is a delightful side effect. Take a look and see what I mean.
For creative people (even the ones who think they "can't draw")
who want to bring more gratitude, more creativity,
and more fun into their lives:
Are you ready to reconnect with your own magic?
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Hi! I'm Tracie
— Gen X Intellectual, Freelance Writer,
and the OG Gratidoodler.
I’ve been making art my entire life. It was always a part of my identity, but often the source of stress.
I was plagued by a perfectionism that became a major disincentive to making art. When I did sit down to draw or paint, I held on so tightly (literally and figuratively), either the art was stilted or I felt stilted making it.
In the Spring of 2022, on a whim, I took an asynchronous course called Illustrated Life Journaling. Illustrated Life Journaling is a practice that pushed back on the preciousness of my too-inhibited comportment toward art: each day’s “journaling” was meant to be done in thirty minutes or less.
Having a regular creative practice that would give me a record of my life and help ease stress, rather than contribute to it? I was in. At the time, I also had a regular gratitude journaling practice.
Combining the two is how Gratidoodling was born.
What's my why? Simply put:
I'm here to reconnect you with your innate creativity. It's been slowly stolen from you through perfectionism, productivity metrics, and a general sense you're not-good-enough.
When you take a little time regularly to feel gratitude and to tap into your own capacity to create, you reconnect with your inner magic. It’s always there, waiting for you.
The world would crush your spark with to-do lists and productivity metrics and the never-ending pressure to look, act, and be perfect. You don’t have to let it.
The science: studies have repeatedly shown that a regular gratitude practice reduces stress, improves sleep, promotes more positive emotions, and can even have physiological benefits. Other researchers have proven that regular creative practice, especially the “loose” drawing of doodling, significantly reduces cortisol, improves mood, and prevents overthinking or anxious rumination. Gratidoodles gives you all of those benefits in just 20 minutes a day!
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