You already know your story matters. This is the first journal that was actually built to hold it.

Adoration Journals

It started with a mother's love.

When Ricardo came out, Roshunda didn't flinch. She adored him — the same way she always had, only louder. Together, they built something that didn't exist: a journal that gives you company, not just blank pages.

This is where it started →

Most journals are made for "everyone." That's the problem.

Self-love doesn't look the same for a queer 22-year-old navigating identity as it does for a single mom rebuilding her life. So we stopped making journals for everyone — and started making them for you. Each volume is built for one specific community, filled with prompts, real stories, and affirmations that actually land. Because they were written by someone who gets it.

The voices inside Volume 1

The People in These Pages

Inside every Adoration Journal, you'll find the stories of real people - activists, artists, dancers, dreamers - who sat down and told the truth about what it means to live in their skin. Their words are woven between your pages. Their courage makes space for yours.

Bret Yamanaka

Bret Yamanaka

On Radical Love & Enjoying the Journey

Bret Yamanaka is a leading force within the concert dance community — a 28-year-old gay Asian man from Southern California who has used his art and his voice to fight for those with less privilege. In these pages, he talks about what it means to love radically and to find joy in a journey that doesn't come with a map.

Gia Love

Gia Love

On Gender Expression & Calling Out Oppression

Gia Love is a 29-year-old trans woman from the Bronx — an activist, actress, and model who prides herself on living as authentically as possible. Her interview is about what it took to push through and actualize the person she always knew she was, even when the world made it dangerous to try.

Alysia Johnson

Alysia Johnson

On Self-Acceptance & Community

Alysia Johnson is a professional dancer with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago — a 24-year-old bisexual woman from Dallas who shows her love and activism through movement, teaching, and being unapologetically herself. She talks about what it means to show up fully in a world that wants you to pick a lane.

Their stories are inside. Yours can be too.

We're building the next journals. Tell us which one is yours.

This is just Volume 1. But Adoration Journals is a series — and each volume belongs to a different community. One volume at a time. One community at a time. Until nobody feels unseen. Inside every journal, you'll find 52 weeks of prompts built for your specific experience, real stories from people who've walked your path, and affirmations that feel like they were written just for you. Because they were. Volume 1 belongs to the LGBTQ+ community. But we're already asking: who's next?

52 weeks. 1 community. Infinite stories.

Adoration of the Single Mother

For the woman who holds everything together and has never once had a space to put it down. You've been waiting for this.

Adoration of the Anxious Mind

For the person whose brain won't stop running worst-case scenarios. You deserve a place that understands that — and meets you there.

Adoration of the Divorced Mom

For the woman learning who she is on the other side of a marriage she thought would last forever. Your next chapter starts here.