One month of BUILDING YOUR DREAM JOURNALING PRACTICE

April 10th-May 8th

One virtual, 2-hour workshop on my perspectives on journaling (pulling from the wisdom of Lynda Barry, Ivan Brunetti, Francisca Rose Chavez, and more!), followed by four weeks of thrice-weekly virtual practice spaces to journal in community and GATHER inspiration.

This is for you if:

  • You feel some deep part of you dying for a creative practice, but don’t know how to start

  • The creative practices you DO have go un-practiced more often than not, because you’re avoiding the frustration and shame you often end up feeling when you try

  • You’ve started and abandoned at least a dozen different notebooks over the years - picking them up in the hope that journaling would feel like a nourishing exploration, putting them down when, once again, it turned into a boring chore

  • You’d love to curb your screen time, but genuinely are not sure what to do instead

  • You tried morning pages and, if you can be honest, they made you feel bored and a little depressed

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Enter The Wizard Method…my multi-media, magic-fueled style of journaling that prioritizes felt inspiration over box-checking, and invites you to experience your journal as an alchemical cauldron - a place where all the energies of your life can meet, synthesize, and transform.

This is not your standard writing-heavy brain-dump method that asks you to commit to a labor-intensive three-page scrawl every single day.

It is also not the art journaling practice that suffocates you under the pressure to make something Pinterest worthy.

The Wizard Method challenges you to step out of what you think your practice is supposed to look like and, over and over, drop into what is. It invites you to stay close to your own experience, responding to your doubts, resistance, and desires as they arrive, and provides you with a wealth of tools, mediums, and exercises to work with how you truly are, in this moment.

Part creative project, part unfiltered diary, part portal of transformation, your journal should be a space that honors your humanity AND connects you to your power, every day.

Here, the goal is to create a practice you actually get to use and feel the effects of. Less feeling guilty for avoiding your journals for another day. More using the information offered to you by your hesitation to build a habit you feel enthralled to return to.

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Throughout the formation of The Wizard Method, I’ve found my way into a practice that genuinely serves as a lifeline for me. My notebooks hold the depths of my grief but also the fullness of my whimsy. They are a safe space for me to try on new ideas and ways of creating, dive into the parts of myself I’ve been avoiding, and experience my life as a creative canvas. I meet myself as an artist and adventurer every day, thanks to the way I’ve learned to wield a cheap, 100-sheet composition book.

Throughout this process, I’ve also been studying what other thinkers and creatives have to say about a journaling practice, and gathering inspiration far and wide to pull into my notebooks and now, share with you.

I will not be teaching you my method in hopes that you go out and start journaling just like me. I’ll share all I’ve learned in hopes that you use it as a springboard to discover what it means to journal like you.

All paid subscribers to my Substack get 20% off! Joining my Substack for $7 will get you access to exclusive bonus content AND save you $10-18 on this workshop!

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We will meet at 7pm Central on Friday, April 10th, for a 2-hour introductory workshop. Replay will be emailed out afterwards for those who can’t attend live!

When I first launched Habitual Magic in August of 2025, it was meant to be a 3 week, one time workshop. It has now transformed into a whole world of its own, via the ongoing Habitual Magic membership! In this digital community, dedicated Wizard Method journalers have daily conversations, offer each other support, body double through all manner of tasks, dream up new ways of creating, and participate in journaling practice sessions multiple times a week.

Your enrollment in the workshop also includes a free month in this community!

Through this community space, you can access three 2-hour practice sessions every week at varying times/days (chosen to support a multitude of time zones). You are not expected to attend all of them (although of course you’re welcome to!), simply come and go as serves your practice.

These spaces will begin with a prompt or activity to ease us into journaling, and then will be open, body doubling space for your practice. We will end with a non-mandatory show and tell, where you can share anything you’ve created or experienced in your practice and enjoy being cheered on.

You can totally just show up to the workshop sessions and then continue building your practice on your own, if anything more feels overwhelming. If, however, you find yourself craving a little more inspiration and support, then you can also join the community Discord, where we chat every day, I can confidently say that this server is the most fun and warm and supportive space on the whole internet, and everyone in there would be so excited to meet you.

We will end with one final closing session on Friday, May 8th, at 7pm central.

The closing session will be a practice session with prompts geared towards reflecting on what you’ve learned, setting intentions for how you want to continue, and celebrating.

 
 

SCHOLARSHIP SPACES ARE AVAILABLE! EMAIL HEY@FRANKIECONSULTS.COM TO REQUEST A SCHOLARSHIP SPOT.

PLEASE NOTE: The workshop is offered on a sliding scale to make it accessible to more people. I trust you to choose an appropriate price, based on what you can afford. Paying as much as you are truly able to allows me to offer this workshop for free to low-income participants sustainably.

10% of all proceeds from this class will be donated to emergency aid efforts in Gaza and Sudan, through Ele Elna Elak and Sudan Mutual Aid Coalition.

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FAQs:

  • Practice sessions are scheduled at least three times a week, at a variety of times, to try and accommodate a wide variety of time zones and schedules.

    You will get the full schedule of exact dates and times before our opening session!

    The most common times are:

    Weekdays at 5:30 am Central

    Weekdays at 7am Central

    Weeknights at 7pm Central

    Weekends at 12pm Central

    Hopefully, there will be several (at minimum) practice sessions that are doable for you throughout the four weeks. We have regular participants from New Zealand, India, Thailand, the UK, and more.

  • I respond to scholarship requests in batches, so it may take a minute! This is because the number of spots I can make available varies based on how many sign ups I receive overall. If you got your email in, I promise you will get a reply back before the workshop begins! And I thank you for your patience in the meantime.

  • Of course, would absolutely love to have you take another lap through <3

  • While I can’t speak to every single physical or mental consideration, I have tried to design this workshop so that it can be adapted widely!

    There have been multiple participants in past rounds who built their journaling practice around minimizing long blocks of handwriting. I also have participants with an entirely digital journaling practice! I say within the class itself that any time I recommend a prompt, you can absolutely doodle your way through the prompt, talk to yourself about it, type about it, do whatever makes it work for you! Your journaling practice is your own, and absolutely needs to meet you where you’re at.

Who you’re hanging with:

My name is Frankie Simmons, and I’m a certified Texas Master Naturalist, an enthusiastic doodler, a grateful Lexapro taker, and a Sunshine Hunter. I am very curious about relationships (with ourselves, with life itself, with the world around us) and how examining and tending to those relationships can offer us inspiration and healing. I don’t have any fancy credentials to share with you, and I don’t approach you as an expert on anything, but as a fellow seeker, trying to feel my way through life without closing my heart or losing my center, just like you.

I am not a therapist or a trained counselor, this space is not a substitute for mental health care, and not an appropriate support for those in active crisis. It is also not a space that will fix you, erase your grief, or magically make functioning in late-stage capitalism an easy thing to do. My hope is that it will offer you anchors, tools, and perspectives that will make staying close to yourself feel doable and maybe even a little bit fun. And that you will continue to tweak and transform those tools to match your unique needs.

My dream (and belief) for this workshop is that you leave feeling firmly rooted in a practice of creativity and reflection that matches your life, emboldens your magic, and adds color to your world. That you’ll have a habit which, instead of making you feel wrong, gives you a consistent mirror reflecting back how magical you are. Your life deserves to be experienced, your genius deserves to be expressed, and I hope this workshop can be a step in those directions. Hope to see you there!

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