As seen in Architectural Digest

Big thanks to Architectural Digest for including me in their recent article about avoiding burnout in the new year!

I am honored to be part of the conversation about manifesting greater ease in our lives as creative entrepreneurs, despite the many challenges we face in today’s business climate. Hello supply chain issues, managing client expectations, rising costs!! So much is out of our hands. Yet, I’ve discovered that in order to do my best work in the world for my valued clients, it’s vital that I also take time and energy to nourish my inner world. Journaling has become one of the habits I’ve formed in the last few years that helps me gain perspective and channel the inner wisdom we all have within us to find solutions and to think differently about how to handle difficult situations and conversations. Knowing that the answers are within us is so empowering. Writing three pages each morning, helps me start each day anew with gratitude, a sense of purpose and motivation. Thank you Architectural Digest for addressing an issue that designers and people from all walks of life can relate to these days. It’s an honor to be included in this esteemed magazine among other talented designers. I am most grateful.

Here’s an excerpt from the article:

“Philadelphia designer Angela Toledo has found a real benefit in regular journaling. Every day starts with three “morning pages.” Toledo describes this morning exercise as a “stream-of-consciousness reflections, written longhand” that she likens to “a brain dump that enhances clarity.” The habit, picked up from author Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way, “helps me filter through and get rid of those extraneous and unhelpful thoughts that we all have,” Toledo says. What ends up on paper isn’t necessarily pretty: “A lot of it is complaining,” she continues, “and whining about circumstances beyond our control.” But “if you keep doing it day after day, eventually you get tired of writing the same thing, and you start to come up with solutions and ways to cope that are much more healthy.”