Embracing Embrace - why you should use Embrace journaling app

written by Micah Brown

If you have just stumbled upon this app about co-journaling, you may find yourself wondering what it does and how folks might use it. Here at Embrace, we felt as though it was time to get a little more personal with our journey so that you may better understand how to use this delightful tool yourself.

A Note on Usage

Before we begin, I want to be upfront that my usage of this app comes from a relationship that leans heavily into kink. This should not dissuade you from using the app, no matter what relationship dynamic you find yourself in. I shall endeavor to provide a baseline for what we do that does not rely on the kink aspects of our relationship to help you understand how it may benefit your relationships – even the relationship with yourself.

Solo Journaling

Journaling is traditionally done as a solo venture. We use journals to keep our thoughts in order, release emotions that we may be unable to express in our daily lives, or process experiences. We may use a journal to spew our thoughts angrily across the page after a bad day or describe the events of the perfect date we have just gotten home from.

While Embrace is designed for those in a relationship, it certainly can be used as a way to journal, not just for the sake of your relationship but also for yourself.

With prompts like “I deepen my relationship with myself by…” and “My core values (that I bring to my relationship with myself) are…” it’s just begging for you to delve further into yourself and examine the unexplored aspects of yourself.

Couples Co-Journal

The primary purpose of the Embrace app is to bring those in a relationship closer together. While the societal standard for relationships is that of the “couple,” we don’t limit our view of relationships to just that of a couple. Within the app, you can add partners who may fill other roles within your dynamic. Note that your partners can’t read each other’s entries in a journal unless they are also partners with each other.

Relationship Communication

Life is busy, and too often in this modern and technology-filled life we all lead, connections get missed, and communication becomes forgotten. When things get busy, the Embrace app becomes a hub for communication that goes beyond a text or a quick message.. It becomes a way for those of you within a dynamic of any kind to keep a thread of open and ongoing communication going. While there is a chat feature within the Embrace app, I intend to steer you away from that and focus you instead on the possibilities within the app’s core function.

Composing a well-thought-out journal entry meant for your partner can help foster every aspect of your relationship. You can send them an assignment in the app to write about a specific prompt – either one you come up with or one of the many preloaded into the app.

Alternatively, you can begin a journal entry that your partner(s) can read and respond to in their journals, creating a lengthy conversation that is more enriching than quick notes sent through text.

Confidence Building for Relationships

This may sound silly, but it’s true. My partner and I like to tell each other we’re amazing, but when we were first together, we would say: “No, you are.”

We have now started saying: “Yes, and so are you!” This way, we acknowledge the compliment, internalize it, and let the other know that they are also awesome. I took this further recently when I assigned my partner a five-paragraph essay about why she thinks she is a good partner. My reasoning is to help her see why she is a good partner. It’s something that I have also assigned myself so that we are both forced to look at the good aspects of ourselves within our relationship and then read about the other’s thoughts on themselves.

It will help both of us feel more confident in our strengths and stop focusing so hard on the weaknesses we perceive within ourselves.

Sexy Times Through Journaling

Co-journaling is something that can genuinely benefit your sex life. Imagine that you’ve been having dirty thoughts about your partner(s) all day and want to be more descriptive than a simple sext could impart. Using Embrace, you could create an entire scene that you can share with your partner, as detailed and in-depth as needed. When they read this, it will start the process of getting them aroused and could lead to a more satisfactory sexual experience for everybody involved.

Get creative with your sexy entries. Remember that you can use the page for fantasies that will turn you on, even if you are not ready to try them in real life (and you may never want to try them in real life, and that is perfectly okay). This gives you another tool to put in your arsenal for sexy times. You can dive deeper into enhancing your sex life with our previous blog article on the matter.

Starting the Conversation

If you are struggling to talk about something with your partner, writing a journal entry about it may help put your thoughts together. Whether you share the journal with your partner or use it to prepare yourself for the conversation, it doesn’t matter – the important thing is that you have created a way to better communicate with your partner(s).

Signing Off

Embrace is not a fix for your relationship if it is suffering issues, but a tool to help you communicate better within your relationship dynamic. Whether you have one partner or multiple partners, Embrace gives you a platform to enhance all aspects of your communication with each other.

Share your stories, dreams, desires, and thoughts with your partner. Create a dynamic where you can freely communicate.

Make Embrace a part of your daily relationship routine.