Why I Created the Unspoken Strength Journal

My Story Behind This Journal

This journal was born from my own heart as a Deaf woman who needed a space to heal, reflect, and finally feel understood.

It was created for the woman who carries so much quietly. Who has felt unseen, unheard, or like her pain doesn't have a place to land.

This is that place.

Read my full story below ↓

It started with a course.

I decided to take a class to learn how to create journals. I have always loved quotes and I wanted to learn how to put something meaningful together. When the teacher asked us what we wanted to create, that was the moment everything changed for me.

I thought about it. And the answer came clearly.

The Deaf community.

Hearing people have shelves full of guided journals, healing prompts, reflection books. But where were the journals made for us? For Deaf women who hold so much. Who go through things that most people will never fully understand. Who carry pain quietly because the world doesn't always make space for us to express it.

I thought someone needs to make one. And maybe that someone is me.

But my love for quotes didn't start there. It started with my best friend Imer back in high school when I was a freshman. He introduced me to quotes and music in a way I had never paid attention to before. We would read them, write our own, and share feedback with each other. That's when I discovered that words have power.

So I started creating. Writing prompts. Rewriting them. Reading them again. Pouring myself into every single page.

And then something happened that I didn't expect.

I cried.

Not just a little. I really cried. Because as I was writing these prompts for other women, I realized I was writing them for myself too. I didn't even know I was feeling that way. I didn't know I needed it that badly.

People know me as the happy one. The positive one. The woman who has it all together. And I do show up that way because I genuinely believe in joy and strength. My faith and my love for God have carried me through more than people know. When I didn't have the words, God gave me peace. When I felt like I was falling apart, my faith reminded me I was never alone.

But behind closed doors there is pain. There is struggle. There are things I have carried for a long time that most people never see.

This journal is for every woman who knows exactly what that feels like.

You don't have to have it all together to begin. You just have to be willing to open the page.

That's where it starts.

— Silvina 🌸