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The Stories We Forget to Tell: Remembering the Quiet Wins
creative expression · Creative Rituals · creative wellness · Everyday Joy · Healing through art · visual storytelling

The Stories We Forget to Tell: Remembering the Quiet Wins

Tina Biornstad-SzafranskiLeave a comment

We’re often taught to document big achievements—graduations, weddings, new jobs. But what about the small, sacred moments that helped you survive? The gentle wins. The quiet joys. The whispered prayers answered in small ways.

Today’s post is an invitation to document the stories you might’ve forgotten, the ones that carried light into your life without fanfare.

🌿 What Are Quiet Wins?

  • A week without a flare-up
  • A kind message on a hard day
  • Getting out of bed when you didn’t think you could
  • Saying no when you usually say yes

These may not make headlines, but they matter deeply. And they deserve to be honored.

📸 Create a “Quiet Wins” Page or Mini Album:

Here’s how:

  1. Title it “The Stories I Forgot to Tell” or “Quiet Wins”
  2. List or journal 3–5 small moments that brought you peace, relief, or joy
  3. Use soft, neutral tones like sage, linen, gold, or blush
  4. Add:
    • A photo (even symbolic—your mug, your bed, your dog)
    • Texture (washi tape, tags, fabric bits)
    • One stamped or handwritten quote

💬 “Not all victories are loud. Some whisper.”

This page becomes a personal anchor. A quiet celebration of your resilience.

The light isn’t always dramatic. Sometimes, it’s found in the tiniest cracks of a hard week. And when we take the time to honor those glimmers, we create a fuller, truer picture of our journey.

✨ Need help getting started? Download my free “Quiet Wins” journaling card set and printable prompt sheet.
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Scrapbooking the Moments That Carried You
creative expression · creative wellness · Everyday Joy · Healing through art · scrapbook · visual storytelling

Scrapbooking the Moments That Carried You

Tina Biornstad-SzafranskiLeave a comment

We often think of scrapbooking as a way to capture birthdays, vacations, and major milestones. But some of the most powerful pages we’ll ever create are about the quiet, ordinary moments that carried us through—the ones where we felt seen, supported, or simply still breathing.

Today, let’s talk about how scrapbooking can become a healing ritual and a powerful act of storytelling when you’ve walked through trauma, illness, or grief.

💬 Why These Moments Matter:

When you’re recovering from something heavy—PTSD, cancer, chronic illness, loss—the smallest moments of light become sacred. A smile from a stranger. A morning with less pain. A handwritten note. A cup of tea.
📷 These are your milestones. These are pages worth preserving.

🖼️ How to Scrapbook These Memories:

  • Use soft colors like ivory, blush, pale blue, or gold to evoke gentleness.
  • Pair journaling with photos of objects or places that hold meaning (your favorite mug, sunrise, your dog curled up at your feet).
  • Layer textures—a torn edge, a vellum overlay, hand-stamped details—to represent healing and depth.
  • Include a short reflection: What did this moment teach you? How did it make you feel seen?

✨ Bonus Prompt:

Create a spread titled “What Carried Me” and list 3-5 moments from the past year that helped you keep going.

You don’t need a “perfect” life to scrapbook. You just need a heartbeat and a story. By capturing the beauty in your survival, your pages become both art and evidence—you were here, you felt deeply, you kept going.

Let your scrapbook become a celebration of light in the in-between.

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