RB Journal

For the Woman Returning to Herself
Journal-style storytelling on conscious living, motherhood and feminine awakening — exploring the tender work of unlearning self-abandonment and living in devotion to what’s real.

Written by Rhian Budd

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Self

May 14, 2025

How I Learned to Leave Myself Behind — and What It Took to Return Home

Healing didn’t begin with answers for me. It began with honesty — quiet, aching honesty. The kind that rises in your chest when the life you’re living no longer has room for your soul.

Motherhood

May 13, 2025

The Quiet Call That Led Me to Purpose Through Motherhood

You know that quiet yearning for something more? That whisper of a bigger story unfolding in the background of motherhood? I felt it too—and it led me here.

Self

May 7, 2025

RB Journal: A Personal Journal of Becoming

This is the story behind the journal — and the girl who dreamed it first.

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Season 1

Aug 19, 2025

We Seek The Redo

Chapter 3: We don’t cling to what feels good — we cling to what feels familiar. A reflection on unconscious reenactment in love and how the past often repeats until we heal.

Season 1

Aug 12, 2025

You Are Not Broken

Chapter 2: A poem for the woman whose heart is closed, whose body no longer reaches for touch. A quiet reminder that numbness is not failure — it’s wisdom. And beneath it all, you are still whole.

Season 1

Aug 5, 2025

The Things We Swallow in Love

Chapter 1: A tender reflection for the women who’ve learned to dim their longings to stay safe and what it slowly costs us.

Season 1

Jul 30, 2025

When Love Isn’t the Point, but the Portal

Season 1 Intro: A new series on the quiet reckoning with old wounds, patterns of self-abandonment and the mirrors that show us where we still struggle to choose ourselves.

Edit

Jul 22, 2025

I’m trying something different (and a little braver)

Laying down perfection, opening my voice and sharing more of the raw process — starting here.

Motherhood

Jul 21, 2025

A Quiet Celebration of Capacity

A personal reflection on how far I’ve come, the shifts I’ve made in parenting and what happens when we learn to honour both our needs and theirs.

Self

Jun 15, 2025

Allowing the Pause

A note from the cocoon — on honouring my rhythm, resting between waves and letting the pause speak

Edit

May 25, 2025

Edit: Momentum, Evolution and an Overflowing Tap

An editorial update from the first few weeks of launching RB Journal. On naming, surrendering to creative flow and the stories that have poured through—on motherhood, purpose, self-abandonment and becoming.

Self

May 20, 2025

Emptying Out as a Sacred Practice

When life feels too loud, I return to the quiet. A reflection on what it means to empty out, unplug and reconnect to the self beneath it all.

Motherhood

May 20, 2025

The Strength We Borrow Until It Becomes Our Own

A reflection on embodied presence, maternal anchors, and the quiet transfer of strength

Self

May 19, 2025

Why It Took So Long

A story about nervous system truth, sacred timing, and the slow arrival of vision

Self

May 14, 2025

How I Learned to Leave Myself Behind — and What It Took to Return Home

Healing didn’t begin with answers for me. It began with honesty — quiet, aching honesty. The kind that rises in your chest when the life you’re living no longer has room for your soul.

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