Jan. 3, 2022 — The Inkandescent Spotlight is on:Alina Liao, founder of Zenit — the life-changing journal company

Monday, January 3, 2022: Happy New Year, dear Inkandescent family! We are thrilled to be starting off 2022 with new magazine issues, more podcasts and video interviews, and a new book publishing website that we’ll be telling you about in the Mondays to come.

We are also launching a little Monday Morning Magic, which we hope will bring inspiration to your week. This week’s wisdom comes from our cover girl of the January-February 2022 issue of Inkandescent Women magazine, Alina Liao, founder of the radical wellness journal company Zenit. We know you’ll love her journey as much as we do, and invite you to take a mini-retreat with her today. Read more: inkandescentwomen.com.

Alina’s Magic: In the spring of 2019, I was working through loss, depression, and trauma. The therapist and coach I was working with recommended I start to write in a journal. Just journal, right? It seemed so simple. But even though I had long known journaling would be good for me I had always struggled to do it. I’d open my journal, stare at the blank page staring back at me, and give up. So there my blank journals sat, collecting dust.

But one day, I thought of a few prompts specific to what I was working on: “What serves me today?” “How am I honoring my wants?” “What am I learning?” I dug up a blank journal and wrote them down. My journal was no longer staring at me. It was inviting me in.

Day by day, I wrote those same prompts in my journal. Soon, journaling went from impossible to easy. I was feeling the transformation from it. I wasn’t only piecing myself back together, I was healing. One day, after writing the same prompts in my journal, I thought, “dang, it would be nice if my journal just had these prompts in them.” I followed that, and Zenit was born. 

Click here to learn how you can take a journaling journey with Alina today!

Here’s to your incredible, indelible, Inkandescent™ success! We’ll talk with you again next Monday! — Hope Katz Gibbs, founder, Inkandescent PR + Publishing Co.