Teens Dream Journal DVD and contest giveaway!
Attention: Teens, tweens, college students (and those who love them)……
- Have you ever felt like no one understands you?
- Do you wish you could feel better about yourself, more confident?
- Does it seem like everything inside of you is crashing down around you?
If you’ve ever felt this way, I understand.
My name is Violette and I often felt like this when I was a teenager.
I wondered why I felt this way when others didn’t seem to. I looked for answers for a very long time.
At first, I searched far and wide for people who would ‘get me’ because my family didn’t understand me. This was hard because we moved to Canada from Morocco when I was four and English was a second language. Our family wasn’t like other families. This all added up to me feeling SO alone!
Later, as I grew older, I tried doing things that promised to help me feel better. At 14, I tried transcendental meditation, but that didn’t last very long. I moved on to workshops. I read books about happiness. In fact, I had the LARGEST self-help library of any teenager I knew.
I tried SO many things!
But, it seemed like no matter what I tried, within a few days, I would feel just like I always had – insecure, afraid, different than other people, and not good enough.
One day, MANY years later, I felt like I might be able to get these feelings out of me by painting them. I began to journal through drawing and clipping pictures instead of only writing how I felt, which sometimes led me to feel even worse about myself or even more confused! Somehow journaling in this way allowed me to get the feelings out and feel better when I was finished – even when I journaled my saddest thoughts!
I knew something magical was happening when I began to feel better about myself and my life.
And, then this magical something jumped into my life!
I began to try new things. I began to meet people who ‘got’ me. I began to do things I had only dreamed of doing. I began to experience new adventures. I also started to feel much happier. The more I journaled my dreams through art, I found THE MOST IMPORTANT discovery of all, and it’s this: the ONE person who needed to understand me and my dreams is ME!
I spent all of my teenage years feeling like I didn’t fit in and couldn’t follow my dreams. I used much of my early adult life chasing after my dreams and trying to figure out who I was.
Now, I live my dreams and I inspire others to live their dreams, too.
This is what inspired me to create the Teen Dream Journal Workshop. I want you to spend more of your life living it, having fun, exploring what you want and feeling good about who you are. I want to introduce you to the tool that unleashed all of this for me – and more! I want to introduce you to YOU – the inner you that is smart, funny, creative, artistic and capable of achieving any dream you can imagine!
In this Teen Dream Journal Workshop, you’ll create a journal that is a perfect snapshot of ‘you’ and will include:
- Favorite quotations,
- A love letter to yourself,
- Silhouette of yourself with words that describe how you feel inside,
- Image transfer of you with qualities that you appreciate about yourself,
- What you love such as foods you love to eat
- Your journal will include only what YOU want to include. In this DVD workshop, I’ll ask you questions that maybe you haven’t even asked yourself! Questions like…
- Where would you like to travel to?
- What you do when you feel sad?
- What kind of super hero you would be?
- Who are your friends?
- And, of course, you can add anything else that is part of your dreams!
The teens I’ve mentored in the past have gone on to go for their dreams. I wish someone would have shared this with me when I was your age! The teenager inside of me is every bit alive and well in this workshop…I remember all too well what it can feel like to feel like you are alone or can’t see how great you really are.
That teenager inside of you who is unsure is right next to the part of you that knows you can do anything, and in your Teen Dream Journal, you’ll be able to discover all of this and more – and you’ll feel more empowered, more confident than you can even imagine!
- Are you ready to feel better about yourself?
- Do you believe your dreams are worth discovering?
- Do you want to change your life in a dramatic way?
If so, join me! GO HERE to find out how you can get your DREAM JOURNAL DVD! Just to let you know this isn’t JUST a 90 minute how to video – it’s also a 45 page e-book/PDF file that you can download and refer back to time and time again!
If you know of any teens or young adults (or maybe EVEN YOU) who might benefit from this DVD please forward this blogpost onto them. If you could like this on facebook or tweet it on twitter or mention it on your blog I’d be so grateful too!
CONTEST GIVEAWAY Woo Hoo!
I’ll be giving away 2 DVDs – contest will end next Wednesday February 8 at 8 am PST. In order to enter the contest please leave a comment letting me know what you had wished you had known as a TEEN that would have made your life so much better! THANK YOU and Good luck!
AWESOME Job on this Violette! Am sure any teen would LOVE a copy of the DVD (I have a few in mind)!!!
Beautiful book and tutorial, Violette! I wish I had known that I didn’t need permission to follow my dreams, and that I was stronger than I knew… Planning on giving this to my neice and saving one for my granddaughter when she’s a bit older (however, I can do some art projects with her now and talk to her about some of your topics) xoxo ~Hobby
That is doesn’t matter what others think about me, but that love myself and that God loves!!
Violette, you have done it again! What a fantastic DVD and book!! I would have loved to have had access to this when I was a teen. I’d have liked knowing I didn’t have to be part of the “in” group of girls to feel special about myself!! That I was in fact just as special as they were.
I’d give this to my step granddaughter-she would do well to read/view your life changing message!
You continue to be an inspiration to any aged person!
Love, Ethel
Fantastic Violette! I really like the words “That teenager inside of you who is unsure is right next to the part of you that knows you can do anything.” How very true! Maybe the unsure part if protecting the ‘do anything’ part from being too reckless and the ‘do anything’ part is there to encourage the unsure part. Everyone still has that teeneager inside!
As a teenager I wish I had known my dreams could be reached if I just believed in myself – it wasn’t necessary for other to do so, just me!
I don’t know if your give-away is open to international readers Violette but should I be lucky enough to win I’m quite happy to pay postage!
Congratulations!
AWESOME IDEA and I’m so happy to have just seen this at Facebook! I’ll be posting on my FB page too!
I am hoping some teenager that I know (my nieces and nephews) will surely post a comment and have a chance to win!
Thank you for caring and sharing Violette!!
What a great product and service! I wish I had known that I would be able to re-invent myself and my life over and over again — so that whatever choices I was agonizing over, weren’t “forever” choices — that there are so many opportunities and that as a teenager, one just can’t even imagine how interesting and ever-changing life really is.
This is a wonderful project to have put together. I’m sure it has all the ingredients of organized thought and colorful images which all of your projects contain.
I wish I had known that the feeling of being alone would be an asset and would actually propel me into discovering who I was and what I had to offer. Feeling “Alone” was the fuel that ran my journey into adventure and discovery.
I wish Id known it was ok to scribble and doodle, Ive always loved doing it and yet my art teacher wouldnt let me as it wasnt ‘proper’ drawing
I have a college freshman and twin eighth graders. I believe that all of them would benefit from this workshop. I wish that I knew that every little decision that seemed so momentous at the time was really pretty inconsequential. I should have asked myself if in fives years, was this really going to matter?
I loved the sneak peek and really appreciate the chance to win.
Thanks!
Hi Violette, just wanted to let you know that I posted about your DVD and giveaway here: http://jennakannas.blogspot.com/2012/02/teens-dream-journal-workshop-by.html
I have a feeling your DVD would be good for ‘teens of ALL ages’! AND I wish some art teachers would watch it too. I wonder how many of us that are finding art in our ‘later years’ DIDN’T find it when we were younger because an art teacher wouldn’t allow, appreciate or encourage a style that was different than their own!
What a wonderful thing for you to do Violette! I wish I had known that I didn’t need to listen to the negative ideas of others and that the dreams that were welling in me would come true and be surpassed!
I wish I had known as a teen that I DIDN’T know everything. and I still don’t.
And that my parents weren’t evil aliens, out to get me.
How to respect and love myself completely. I always felt “reigned in”, I guess – that it wasn’t ok to pursue what I wanted passionately. After becoming an adult, I started to gain that knowledge and wish I had started sooner!
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Note to the sixteen year old Maggie: I wish I would have known the importance of spending time with my family, instead of spending every waking moment with friends. While friends are fun and important when you are teen, they are often temporary. And while family seems like they will always be there, you regret not spending time with them when they are gone. Love, the 45 year old Maggie xoxoxo
It gets better. You are not a black sheep in a white sheep family, you are multicolored. You will connect with other people who get you and enjoy that creative and curious brain of yours.
Also, try to tolerate your parents more. You’re not all sweetness and light. They do the things that they do because you are the “baby” in the family. Their corrections are their way of teaching you to fit in. You can explore other options for dressing and living you life, but it’s hard to break the rules when you don’t know what they are.
DVD looks great! I wish i’d known that it was ok to stand out from the crowd and to just be myself! I spent far too much time worrying about the opinions of people who ,once i’d left school.i’ve not seen since. The best friends are only made when you are true to yourself.
DVD looks amazing Violette. I wish I had known then to be independent of the good opinions of others.
Only conform when it is absolutely necessary.
Also, find kindred spirits. Hang out with them.
. . . that everything you are going through now will become even more meaningful later.
Fantastic program (dvd & pdf), Violette! It’s bright, colourful, affirming and cool FUN – an awesome example of how healing, transformation and personal reflection can be joyful, positive and uplifting. Absolutely suitable for all ages! For all of us who feel that “I wish I had known…”, it’s great to have a tangible tool to share with the young people we love, care for and with whom we would like to share the inspiration we wish we’d had!
Thanks for sharing your wisdom and talents – and making them available for us to share with others.
This looks like a fabulous DVD. Inspirational and fun!!!
What do I wish I’d known when I was young?? Don’t
stop drawing. Pursue creativity. It’ll feed your
soul and illuminate your life.
Good luck with your Teen Journals!!
Hi Violette,
Sorry for posting twice! Just wanted to let you know I’ve just posted about Teens Dream Journal at http://www.creative-gypsy-studios.com I LOVE the ‘new’ Purple Juice website!
What do I wish I knew? How important it is to Follow your Dreams, no matter what anyone else says/ thinks/ does, that your own heart knows exactly what you are supposed to be ‘when you grow up’ and to keep listening to all the things it’s whispering to you!
Will Teens Dream Journal be available wholesale for stores? I’d like a couple of copies for our shop – I know there are LOTS of teens and teachers in our town who would love it!
I wish I had known that I didn’t have to stress so much about what others thought about me. Now that I’m nice and old I’m much more confident and less likely to try hard to impress others.
xoxo
Stacy
I just wish I knew what my dream was, then I would have known which path to get on and go and looked for it. I was dizzy and clueless even then : )
Hi Violette,
Thanks for all you do. You are truly inspirational! If I knew that no matter your life, economic or parental circumstances that following your heart and what comes easily and naturally would lead you down a chosen life path rather than a path of escape based on those circumstances; how different your life could be and become. Follow your passions. Seek out mentors and gobble up all the information you can about your passion. In time you will be living your passion. When that passion consumes you; all of the nay sayers will sound like a faint and distant whisper; barely audible.
One more important point don’t look for love in all the wrong places put all of that effort into yourself and your passions.
Oh Violette!
I have four teens that could use this DVD! As their mom I have grown so much trying to be the example they need in their lives. But I well remember being a teenager oh, so well still and pray that mine don’t have all the inadequate feelings I had. Parents who worked full time and didn’t always seem so interested in my life until I was on the brink of despair and afraid to tell anybody. How to take control of everything I was feeling and wanting but afraid to. Thanks for all your outreach to those who feel this way! And especially for making it possible for us parents to use your products for our use.
Three things I wish I had known as a teen ;
1Don’t sweat the small stuff and everything is small stuff
2 Being different is wonderful
3 always remember who you are
One thing I wish I had known is:
Shoot for the moon and even if you don’t make you’ll land among the stars.
My older brother committed suicide when I was just 13, and it really messed me up inside for many years..I wish I had known it was okay to have and share feelings of grief and loss, and that tho bad things can sometimes happen, it doesn’t mean that good things won’t happen too..I really could’ve used a journal like this back then to help heal from the loss and get all my feelings out, to help me realize it wasn’t my fault and that there was nothing I could’ve done differently..keeping my fingers crossed I win, as I would love to gift this to my own teenage daughter..
Those years were so challenging…demanded so much of me, asked me to stop being a child and stand tall under the weight of impending adulthood…nothing felt safe anymore, and I was lost inside a chaotic mind and a changing body. I wish I had known that it was going to get better and I was going to BE OKAY! This looks like a true emergency flotation device for any teen being pulled under by The Stress of It All, a First Aid Kit for acute emotional triage. Bless your colorful soul, Violette!! <3
oh violette, i grew up in a home with an alcoholic father, a mother that should have never had children, i was molested at age 5, pregnant at age 17, to even start to tell you how i would have benefited from someone, somewhere that could have helped me my life would have been totally different and saved me so much pain i had to go thru. thank you so much for the opportunity to win this, so kind of you. by the way thank you for your donation to charity wings, i tried to win it but no luck. your donation was very much appreciated and well recieved. hugs,lura
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Amazing work you are doing Violette. As a teen I often went through depression because I didn’t fit in. I wish that I had known that blazing my own trail was much better than trying to fit in with groups who had no direction.