 Like literally you would know that I am a professional YouTuber because of my camera issues. I think I'm literally perched on a jar right now. Anyway, welcome to a new video. Okay, this other way of therapy is one, um, a therapy. This other way of journaling for my mental health and well-being is one I've spoken to my counselor about and I really wanted to try, but I'm going to film it while I'm trying it. I think it's probably going to do very well by me. I have this feeling. So this is more about writing than it is drawing or artwork. You can use one of these journals with the ink blob on it and you can definitely do some drawing on it. What do you see? And I can't say I won't do that because I'm all about the drawing, but the focus needs to be on the writing. So I want you to start out with just, again, a plain ballpoint pen. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Put your piece of plastic in between the pages and click case things bleed through. And you're going to need some sort of a big black marker, whether it's a Sharpie or I have one of these wide copics in my stash. And you're going to need a white pen, a white gel pen, a white paint pen. You could use for the black one, you could use a paint pen. You could use black paint or you could use black masking tape, black washi tape, black tick collage paper. Any of those would be fine. I want you to start out with the big pen or the ballpoint pen. And I want you to write something negative, something that's bothering you. It can be just a few words. It can be a couple of paragraphs. I want you to dig deep and I want you to work through, don't try to work through everything. If you're like me, there's like a million different subjects you could go for, but just pick one. Just one, whatever's on your mind and it doesn't have to be punctuated. It doesn't have to be spelled right because it's not about that. Do your writing first and then we'll get on to the next step. I'm going to do that. I'll be right back. Oh, by the way, the writing doesn't have to be legible or neat. It can be if you want. In the end, it's not going to matter. So there you go. Marks on the page. You can definitely do what I just did and outline them or draw them. Or if you think the marks convey a shape or a form to you, definitely go with that. I see another one right here. In the end, they may not show. So I'm going to put this back up here because I can hold it open. So next I'm going to take my wide black Copic, again, use what you have. And all this is all negative stuff, right? So we're going to do this. I'm letting it go. I'm erasing it from my being. I'm not ready to erase all of it. I'm not quite there yet, but I can let go of most of it. I'm working on it, though, guys. Yeah. Okay, back on that. And this is refillable, by the way. I don't know exactly how to refill it, but anyway. All right, then we're going to take our white gel pen. We've blacked out the negative. We're letting it go. What's something positive you can teach yourself? I used to do something sort of like this in a composition notebook years ago. We called it something different, but anyway. And let's see. I'm not planning any of this, by the way. I'm literally just following my instincts. I'm also not trying to make it be perfect because it's not, again, it's not about that. And consciously I might not know exactly what I'm trying to tell myself with this, but subconsciously I do know. And I usually know when I go back and take a look at it and go, aha. So that's another way of taking these sort of pre-marked inkblot style journals and working through them and doing some sort of self-help art therapy with them. Again, I am not a therapist. This is what I'm doing for me to help myself through my mental health. This is the other one that we did. You should seek out a mental health professional if you're suffering. There is no shame in that, and I will try to find some place to reference down below and if I can't and or you guys have some suggestions for places depending on what country in the world you're in, please give me the link and I'll link it in the video description. Try these. See if they work for you. I'd be interested to see. And I'd be interested to see your videos or pages if you're brave enough to share. And if you're not, and you just want to talk to me about it and share privately, you can do that too. My email address is down below and I'm on Facebook and Instagram and all of that stuff if you guys want to connect with me. Look at the link tree list links down in the video description. That's it for today. Don't forget to stay safe, stay healthy, stay creative, go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys.