#18: If you love journaling, notebooks, paper, pens, ink pots and gel pens, then you will most likely enjoy today’s episode of Virgin Notes Radio!

Today, we explore:

* The four notebooks that I gravitate towards for manifestation

* How I use each of these notebooks, the intention and feel curated for each of them

* A grounded take on journaling for manifestation

* The kinds of pens I prefer, specifics on how I journal

* Examples of how I might write in each journal

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This week, whilst down with a cold/flu, I re-listened to a familiar self help book: The Big Leap. My second time around with it hasn’t panned out the same as when I first listened to it in 2017. So, I thought I’d share my thoughts and commentary on why I think this is the case, and my own unsolicited advice on what I would do now to overcome self-sabotage.

Today, we explore:

* Different kinds of self-sabotaging behaviour

* Commentary on The Big Leap, which addresses self-sabotage

* Alternatives to the advice given in The Big Leap

* How culture shifts influence how I perceive self help advice now

* 5 practical tips to overcome self sabotage

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2024 was my year of no morning routines. It was a year of loving semi-hectic, haphazard, do-what-you-will, come-what-may type of mornings. I thrived in the chaos of an unmeditated morning. I’d slap on my slippers, splash water on my face, slather on some face oils, let my dog out, grab my journal and water bottle and head on upstairs.

Details of my 2025 morning routine and more are in this episode.

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Crashing ocean waves, smoothie bowls and temporary gold-traced tattoos. Photos of jumping off beach cliffs, The Icebergs and the summery sounds of Odesza. These logos are all I need to be taken back to 2014 when Tumblr reigned and Sydney was the destination of Australia. Living in Melbourne, I remember being all too envious of the people who lived up north and had an-hour-and-under access to alcoves and beaches that looked airbrushed and their saturation boosted.

How does it feel when you finally go to a place you’ve longed to ten years later? What reflections might be had?

This is a read-aloud of an article from Virgin Notes by Kimberley Wenya. Read-alouds occasionally contain added context and detail from the writer than its written version. To view the written version of this article, click here.

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Manifestation is not new; it’s a topic that has been cat-fishing and over-promising as it’s made its way from one human’s mind to another for years on end. With commodities like The Secret and a self help industry that profits millions of dollars from it, one might question the motives of sharing on such a topic, and whether it’s all just a multi-level-marketing scheme (‘I’ll tell you how to manifest your dream life, and that’s how I’m funding mine, which is funding another’s and another’s up the line.’). So why is it that I felt like I could say a few words in defence of it? Why would I spend two years writing a book about it if it’s a theme that draws so much controversy and slyness in its online industry?

This is a read-aloud of an article from Virgin Notes by Kimberley Wenya. Read-alouds occasionally contain added context and detail from the writer than its written version. To view the written version of this article, click here.

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This is a read-aloud of an article from Virgin Notes by Kimberley Wenya. Read-alouds occasionally contain added context and detail from the writer than its written version. To view the written version of this article, click here.

To purchase a copy of The Manifestation Diaries, click here.

This is a read-aloud of an article from Virgin Notes by Kimberley Wenya. Read-alouds occasionally contain added context and detail from the writer than its written version. To view the written version of this article, click here.

To purchase a copy of The Manifestation Diaries, click here.

This is a read-aloud of an article from Virgin Notes by Kimberley Wenya. Read-alouds occasionally contain added context and detail from the writer than its written version. To view the written version of this article, click here.

To purchase a copy of The Manifestation Diaries, click here.

This is a read-aloud of an article from Virgin Notes by Kimberley Wenya. Read-alouds occasionally contain added context and detail from the writer than its written version. To view the written version of this article, click here.

To purchase a copy of The Manifestation Diaries, click here.

The Manifestation Diaries, written by Kimberley Wenya is out October 16!

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In this episode, Kimberley talks about:

• Finishing her book, The Manifestation Diaries
• Some of the shifts that occurred whilst writing
• What sets The Manifestation Diaries apart from other manifestation books?
• Who might this book be for?
• What inspired the title, The Manifestation Diaries?
• What inspired the volvelle, a paper tool that sits at the back of the book.
• What was the most psychologically challenging part whilst creating this book?
• What was your editing process?
• What did a day of writing look like?
• What is the genre of The Manifestation Diaries?
• An excerpt from the book
• If you had to summarise the reading experience, how would you describe it?

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This episode is the first of our weekly podcast series on Virgin Notes Radio!

Today, we explore:

* A refreshing way to view manifestation that’s relaxed, sceptical but hopeful

* Leaning into the magic of manifestation from a grounded place

* A light breakdown on thoughts, feelings and actions

* A synchronicity example in daily life

* What I drank/watched/listened/said this week

The Sealed Section (yes, an ode to magazine sealed sections!) begins at 30:47. To listen to this bonus content, you can upgrade your subscription at kimberleywenya.substack.com/subscribe <3

* How it feels to be working towards the best outcome

* Simple, cosy take-home activities for each thoughts, feelings and actions to begin intentionally manifesting

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Cool(ness) is a mystique; it reveals itself through slow, accidental flashes of enticement and excitement as we venture to fill the gaps with our imagination between what is displayed, and what is visually and conceptually certain.

This article explores the concept of cool. Is it a sin to want to be cool? What makes something so?

Stay tuned for an exciting announcement at the end of this episode!

This is a read-aloud of an article from Virgin Notes by Kimberley Wenya. Read-alouds occasionally contain added context and detail from the writer than its written version. To view the written version of this article, click here.

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Sylvia Plath’s damn fig tree. I wrote these words in a comic-sans-esque font using a pruned finger on the foggy glass door of the shower. They were barely readable now, the hot mist clearing out the letters nearly as fast as I’d dazedly written them. I’d been ruminating, as one does within the three cubic metres of a shower, being pelted on with a stream of hot air and water, on career — the non-linear experience of it all. The desire to be everything, and thus, feeling like no matter what you choose, you’ve made the wrong decision.

This article offers another view into a less depressing analogy.

Includes writing prompts and *rolls eyes*, yes, affirmations.

This is a read-aloud of an article from Virgin Notes by Kimberley Wenya. Read-alouds occasionally contain added context and detail from the writer than its written version. To view the written version of this article, click here.

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In this episode, I add some extra commentary on my recent article, manifestation for modern people. A cosy, thought-provoking listen whilst you walk, drive or sip your tea.

* What is manifestation for modern people?

* What kind of attitudes/views might this entail?

* Six things to try to casually partake in manifestation

* Reflection on manifestation as an idea over the years

Manifestation is the idea that we have influence on our reality with our thoughts, feelings and actions; at least, this is my preferred take on it. Sometimes this involves affirmations, visualisation and dream statements — and for the more practically inclined, there is an emphasis on action.

But how does an idea like manifestation shift with the culture? How are we interacting with a field of thought which has rich promises in its mainstream contexts that are sometimes too good to be true?

This is a read-aloud of an article from Virgin Notes by Kimberley Wenya. Read-alouds occasionally contain added context and detail from the writer than its written version. To view the written version of this article, click here.

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Offline. The word just seems so fresh, audibly and conceptually. It’s the land of the untouched, the undocumented, the salient and the vestigial. It’s where we can say controversial things that you never would online because our close friends know it’s with nuance and in one specific context and actually fine.

9 reasons to be offline.

This is a read-aloud of an article from Virgin Notes by Kimberley Wenya. Read-alouds occasionally contain added context and detail from the writer than its written version. To view the written version of this article, click here.

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A pragmatic take on an airy fairy idea.

In this episode, Kimberley explores:

* What is energetics in manifestation?

* Her disagreements with the mainstream narrative around emotions/feelings/energetics in manifestation

* A practical take with energetics

* How she approaches energetics today

* The ‘basics’ of energetics

* How often to check in with energetics

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This is a read-aloud of an article from Virgin Notes by Kimberley Wenya. Read-alouds occasionally contain added context and detail from the writer than its written version. To view the written version of this article, click here.

To purchase a copy of The Manifestation Diaries, click here.

In this episode, Kimberley explores:

* Her thoughts on manifestation, 7 years later

* Thoughts on an manifestation debate article from frankie magazine, issue 123

* Her in’s & out’s of 2025

* How she approaches thoughts on signs, synchronicities and angel numbers today

* A poem for when facing difficulties or hardship

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