In Our Green Era

Hey there and welcome back to Life, Unfiltered!

I decided to visit my site a few times as a reader to see what the new update to The Adulting Journals looks like, and it hit me that I never did address the new 2026 look.

If you’ve been here since the beginning of the blog, you’re likely surprised to return to our new green and black look. And if you’re new to The Adulting Journals community, welcome!

Finishing 2025 was slightly rough. I had been facing a depressive low through which I was questioning my writing and the purpose of my blog, alongside some darker thoughts.

I opened up my blank doc to write a new post as the new year began, put on my usual bright yellow font to get the creativity flowing, and… nothing. The page remained blank.

Having needed to renew my domain within January anyway, I decided I would leave The Adulting Journals in the past and create a whole new space with a new title, a new mission, and a new domain.

Fortunately, my family talked me out of that massive change.

Then came the "green" idea.

When I decided to open a new doc, once again titled “Untitled Alexandra Project”, I made the font a soft pastel green and began throwing out ideas into the void. The first idea that fell out of my head was making the logo a wolf.

When I began designing Punk Pulse Magazine at the very start of my blogging journey, I intended on drawing up a version of my wolf head tattoo as the logo. Frankie would have been the perfect symbol of the independence, pride, and growth that I began Punk Pulse Magazine with. But when I transformed Punk Pulse into The Adulting Journals, my bold logo idea would have been immensely jarring against the soft yellows of my new site design. So I went with a delicate bird instead.

Both my blog and my tattoo were born of painful experiences, and I wanted this new era of The Adulting Journals to represent the strength that I intend to carry into this new year, combining the softness of The (original) Adulting Journals with my newfound willpower and spunk that I had since lost through this difficult time.

In designing the almost contemplative and peaceful predator that would now represent my site, I immediately felt at home. The rest soon followed.

The blacks and greens, the font, the headings, it all fell into place. I was brought back to a space that finally felt safe again.

I know I’ve said it many times, but I began this blog not for views or money, but as a form of therapy and healing. When I open a new page flooding with green, I feel like I can breathe.

I’ve been told by friends and readers that my writing helped them get through a hard time, or carried them through a semester of college. Hearing that honestly gets me a little choked up. To think that this project that I began to help myself through a trauma in the only way I know how is actually helping heal others is huge to me.

To see that my words not only allow me to take a breath, but allow others to as well, is all that I need to continue writing. 

If you’ve been here since the very yellow beginning of The Adulting Journals, I can’t even begin to express how much I appreciate your support. You all are everything to me and I intend on doing everything I can to keep this little community a comfort to all of us.

And if you’re here for the first time and the only version of The Adulting Journals you know is green: Welcome. It’s such a privilege to have you here, not only visiting my site, but staying until the end of my post. Thank you so much for your time and I sincerely hope to see you here again.

With love always,

Alexandra