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A journal for the trying

A quiet place for the waiting, however long it takes.

A quiet place for the waiting, however long it takes. How your body is, and how your hope is. What you would say to yourself, kindly, on the hard days. No one else needs to see it.

Begin your journal

Beside the dates

The app you already use has a field for every date and no room for a sentence. The practical half gets recorded and the rest of it has nowhere to go.

A page of your own

A page with no chart on it, open whenever you want it and closed when you do not. What you write there stays yours.

The blank page

There is a lot of advice about tracking when you are trying to conceive, and much less about where to put the month itself. This is not a chart. It is somewhere for how it actually is, which is often not the same as what you are telling people.

What it looks like

A journal for the trying in Innerholm, open at an empty page on its own paper, with the edition's opening prompt set faintly on it.
How it opens. The prompt is furniture rather than a form: write past it, answer it, or ignore it entirely.
A journal for the trying in Innerholm with an entry written on it, dated, above the page footer.
The same page with a few minutes in it. The date, the paper, and the footer are the edition's own.
A journal for the trying in Innerholm in dark mode, the same written entry on the edition's night paper.
At night. Every edition has a night stock, chosen so the ink stays readable rather than dimmed.

How to start a journal for the trying

  1. Write the day, not the cycle

    The practical numbers live in whatever app you already use. This page is for the rest of it.

  2. Say the unsayable parts here

    The envy, the tiredness of explaining, the hope you will not say out loud. None of it needs resolving in the entry.

  3. Leave it alone for as long as you like

    Nothing is counting. Coming back after two months is not starting over.

What this journal opens with

  • How is your body, and how is your hope?
  • What would you say to yourself, kindly?

A quiet start, never a form. Write past the prompt, ignore it, or make the page your own. The journal holds the shape; the words are yours.

Journal Prompts for Trying to Conceive

These are prompts for the waiting, not for making the waiting productive. There is nothing here to track and nothing to optimize, only somewhere to put a month that is hard to describe to anyone who is not in it.

  • How are you today, before anything medical or practical?
  • What is your body doing this month, in your own words?
  • What was this appointment like, apart from what it was for?
  • What are you afraid to hope for out loud?
  • What has this week asked of you that nobody scheduled?

All trying to conceive journal prompts →

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