About Rowing Home
Rowing Home celebrates the ancient practice of journal writing.
A journal is both a simple record of days and a powerful tool for mental health—pen as oar.
A journal writing practice is an ongoing conversation with ourselves, inviting us to listen, to trust, to remember.
Marks on a page signal our deepest yearnings and daily observations, creating breadcrumb trails to who we are.
While often a solitary practice, journaling connects us to a greater whole—a journal-keeper lineage across centuries of inked pages testifying to desire, reflection, and discovery.
Rowing Home is a place to celebrate self-recovery and dedicate ourselves to this practice.
About Prevailing Ritual
Prevailing Ritual is a collection of anonymous journal entries, found and submitted.
Fears, obsessions, hopes, dreams, resentments, worries, hurts, plans, lust, and burning anger. You’ve felt it. We’ve felt it. No shame in it.
Share a journal entry here.
Prevailing Ritual Submission FAQs
Can I submit a journal entry?
Yes! Submit your journal entry using this Google Form .
Why kind of journal entry should I submit?
Anything honest written by you. Confession, self-doubt, secrets, lists, heartbreak, anger, big dreams, goal-setting, etc. Send what feels most raw, urgent, and personal.
Is my submission anonymous?
Absolutely, it’s anonymous. This is meant to encourage bravery and help readers focus on what matters—the substance of each entry.
Will you edit my journal entry?
We correct misspellings (mainly because we don’t know if the misspellings are from your original journal entry or a typing error).
Where do the very old journal entries come from?
Those journals come from estate sales, thrift stores, and auctions.
“My mission is to raise awareness about Journal writing as an affordable, accessible, and pocket-sized mental health tool. ”
About Amy Eden Jollymore
Writer Amy Eden Jollymore is Rowing Home’s founder and the author of The Kind Self Healing Book: Raise Yourself Up with Curiosity and Compassion, a self-care workbook to help heal childhood trauma.
She holds a MFA in creative writing and teaches journaling workshops online and around the San Francisco Bay Area. She is from Minnesota, lives in Northern California, and calls her body Home.
