Megan Crockrel Promotes a Season of Self-Love and Wellness with New Journal
By: Sonya Newman
The Ashland Beacon
With every season comes transformation and growth. We see it in the change of weather and we see it as we age. We see it in the lives of our children, we see it in our careers, and we see it in our life path. Sometimes a major change can happen in a brief period of 90 days. That’s a season. Sometimes, we get so caught up in all the seasons of our lives, that we neglect taking a season for self-care.
No one better understands the need for self-care better than a mother of two, who has worked in urgent care, who consistently and selflessly gives her time to care for others. Meet Megan Crockrel, author of the recently released, ‘Sis, It’s You!’. This journal is designed to promote a season of self-love and wellness. Its purpose is to encourage women to make choices that would restore and care for themselves.
“Women are literally superheroes,” Crockrel stated, “We usually put everyone and everything in front of our own needs.” It’s often thought by many that it’s selfish to place such a high emphasis on self, but she concludes, “It’s not selfish. Honestly, if we are not okay, the people around us won’t be okay.”
Her inspiration is every woman— younger and older, no matter her circumstances, no matter her struggles, and no matter her situation. The woman who doesn’t realize her own internal and external beauty, who battles brokenness, depression, pain, and anxiety, or who just may need help finding a way to love herself again. “I was HER!” Crockrel admitted, “Through my three-month process of journaling, I learned so much about myself. I grew in places that I didn’t realize I needed growth. I walked by mirrors and said, ‘You are so beautiful’ and truly meant it.” She was truly amazed by her transformation from the beginning of the journal to the end, where much-needed change had grown within her, as if she could see herself the way God sees her.
When you find yourself transformed, you want to tell everyone, and that sharing process is in the hope that other lives will be transformed as well. Megan makes each journal, makes the covers, prints the pages from her very own design, and binds them, as well. She even makes the notepads and the envelopes that come with the journal. “The process of putting my journal together was God,” she recalled, adding “I remember sitting down for hours, days, and months working on the journal; as simple as it sounds, it was actually pretty hard (with) lots of trial and error.”
Christ Temple Church in Ashland, where Megan’s brother District Elder J.D. Crockrel is the Pastor, hosted the launch earlier in the month. “It was like being home surrounded by family,” she shared, “In that building, I knew I would have support, comfort, and love. I wouldn’t want to have it anywhere else.” The launch went really well, and she recounts an unforgettable moment when she was embraced by a teenage girl who’d attended. “Her genuine smile was permanently plastered on her face as I spoke about my journals,” Crockrel remembered, “her dad approached me and said, ‘You’ll never know what you’ve done for us today.’”
“The eagerness of young girls to hurry and open their journal to get started was a feeling that I can’t even explain,” said Crockrel of what she experienced from her point of view at the launch. Her labor of love continues to prepare a season for others, but when asked how, she simply stated, “I literally let go, and let God lead me.”