My name is Erin, and my journaling and paper craft practices have held me over the course of my life, helping me to make meaning, nourish my spirit, body and mind, come more fully in to myself, find my creative voice, and continues to bring me solace and joy. I am an absolute nerd for stationery, and always have been. I teach workshops and design and sell journaling related products, and that work is such a gift. I also love planners!
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I left my full time job working in public health in a local government setting (after many years working on violence prevention there) at the beginning of 2021 to focus on being a small business owner. It was a bold, exciting, and scary move. My journaling practice supported me.
I am a social worker and therapist (not currently a practicing therapist, but I bring 10+ years experience), with expertise related to childhood trauma, attachment, and all forms of violence. I continue to work in the fields of equity centered trauma informed care and violence prevention over at Collective Action Consulting, in addition to my work here at Journal As Altar. Through many years of navigating trauma, my journaling and paper craft practice have been an anchor. A few years back, I realized that my journals acted as altars in my life and that felt powerful.
I am white, and actively choose to betray whiteness. I will be in a life-long relationship with what that looks like. Lately, that looks like untangling myself from binary and supremacy thinking and elevating what’s possible when we center collective well-being and our potential outside of oppressive norms.
I love laughing (and do easily and often), chocolate cake, being in or near water, art supplies and stationery (natch), loud earrings, flowers, learning, friendly pranks, podcasts, my babely partner, a bold lip, true crime, drag race, teaching, sharp wit, good political commentary, critical analysis, our cats, lists 😉, and social justice.
Why subscribe?
Paid subscribers get access to:
📰 2-4 blog posts per month with updates, support, and inspiration
🎧 occasional podcast episodes, including content for listening while you journal
📓 tools for your practice: affirmations, prompts for exploration, creative technique inspirations
👩🏽💻 occasional, new pre-recorded workshops, free to paid subscribers for a limited time before they move to for sale on journalasaltar.com
📝 additional writing and reflection on how a journaling practice can deepen your relationship with yourself and your communities.
Enthusiastic Founding members get access to:
📰🎧📓📆👩🏽💻📝of the above
💌 A Journal As Altar welcome package mailed to your home, including lots of JAA stickers, 4 favorite pens, JAA postcards, and a beautifully curated set of vintage ephemera, stationery items, and collage materials (must be able to provide a mailing address). Limited to people with addresses in the US.
my immense gratitude, truly!
Free subscribers get access to:
📰 monthly blog with updates, support, and inspiration
With intention and practice, your journal can be an altar to healing, well-being, and building the world you want to see.
Develop your practice
I believe we all play a role in growing the just, equitable, loving world that will bring all of us to collective liberation. A world where everyone gets to thrive. My journals are both portal and vessel, altars to what is possible. My journals document my commitment to the collective, my commitment to myself and my loves, and act as accountability reminders. My journals hold pain, joy, healing, reflection. Yours can, too.
Journal As Altar is a freedom project, not an assignment that you pass or fail.
Find your paper and pen loving people
Be part of a community of people who want to nerd out with you about stationery, journals, planners, and art supplies…while also building a better world.
You can learn more about Erin Fairchild and Journal As Altar here, and be sure to check out analogue tools and workshops available in the webshop to enhance your Journal As Altar practice.
