Friday Flutter Report 1.30.26

If January was an emotion

If January was an emotion, then I would be the embodiment of January this week. A bright sun bringing moments of energy and hope, followed by bitterness and dread from lack of warmth.

Despite the ice, I didn’t want to let the frigid air crack my entire heart (my hands, however… hopeless). I decided to lean on my Words of the Year to spark some type of action and landed (begrudgingly) on Morning Pages.

Usually, I love Morning Pages. I’ve talked before about combining Morning Pages with “love letters,” but this was NOT that. This week, writing my pages was like screaming into the void. I wrote three pages of petty, emotional word slush and…it actually helped. I wasn’t magically warm and fuzzy, I was just less apathetic. It’s like I offloaded some of the negativity onto the page and that allowed my mind to forget about it. I know a lot of people use Morning Pages this way to begin with, but I was trying so hard to make them a positive experience that I forgot that sometimes creating space for a bad mood is the only way to shape it into something better (or at least more neutral).

With everything going on in the world, I’d imagine most of us are going through some heavy emotions this week. If you’re looking for a pick-me-up, might I suggest grabbing a pen and letting the ink flow for three pages. No expectations. No judgement. No prying eyes. If nothing else, at least you can say you used the notebook you bought for the new year.

Wishing you well and a happy weekend 💙