About this site

Beyond Your Journal is an art-adjacent independent publication founded by Paula Canning.

This publication exists to explore:

• creativity as an ecosystem
• experience and reflection as fuel for art
• process and walking the talk over perfection and glamour
• human-made work in an algorithm-driven world
• thinking in webs rather than lines
• tangible ideas turned into action

Benefits of Subscribing

By signing up, you'll get access to the full archive of everything that's been published before and everything that's still to come.

Human first creativity-adjacent content

Deep dives on my creative journaling process + as a multidisciplinary artist

Access to tutorials ab0ut creative journaling & process art

Art & design book recommendations

Art making process

Multidimensional thinking

Reflections and stories on monetizing your creativity

About the Author

I’m Paula!

I'm an artist + digital media strategist.

This is a place where my creative process lives in real time: unfinished thoughts, visual experiments, reflections, pages from journals, and the small creative rituals that shape my days.

I consider this space my public journal. If you subscribe, you’ll get access to everything I’ve shared on the digital space so far, plus new entries as they’re published.

Your subscription supports this space and allows it to exist as a slow, independent creative archive.

And if you’ve ever felt creatively capable but directionless, inspired but scattered, talented but unsure how it all fits together — hey that's me too. So you’re in the right place.