Our mission

The decline of mental health is largely due to the loss of communication between brain cells. Scribble Journey focuses on art making and journaling to stimulate parts of the brain and form new connections between cells. Each activity is designed to help the brain discover shiny new insights that can smooth the path of your mental health journey. Through this process, people have the ability to improve their self esteem, experience more positive thinking, de-stress, and enhance their overall mental health.

Our story

College was an extremely stressful time for Stephanie as she was constantly searching for healthy outlets to release the stress of classes, organizations and work. She began to journal in the mornings to kickstart her day and doodle in the evenings as a way to unwind. As her last year of college at the Ohio State University approached, she began to think of topics for her visual communication design senior thesis and decided to look into the world of art therapy. Stephanie filtered through psychology websites and case studies, sent out surveys to learn how people participate in art making and journaling, conducted focus groups and interviewed art therapists. After weeks of research, Scribble was born. 

After her thesis was complete, people would approach her and ask when she would make Scribble a reality. Stephanie realized the demand and interest for Scribble and decided to put Scribble’s activities into the world. Without the knowledge of developing an app, she created Scribble in the form of an activity card deck. Upon success on Etsy and Uncommon Goods, she wanted to see Scribble back in its original form, an app. Luckily, her husband, Greg, had just made a career change by completing a developer bootcamp and was now equipped with the skills to build Scribble Journey for the App Store.

In October 2023, the Scribble Journey duo was selected as 1 of 11 companies to participate in cohort 19 of Apple Entrepreneur Camp. The camp is specifically designed for organizations founded and led by underrepresented groups, and dedicated to helping entrepreneurs as they work on the next generation of cutting-edge apps. The camp offers a hands-on technology lab, one-on-one code-level guidance from Apple experts and engineers as well as mentorship, inspiration and insights from top Apple leaders.

After years of outlining new activities, creating illustrations, drafting emails and writing code, Stephanie and Greg are thrilled to finally have Scribble Journey in the hands of others.

How the Scribble Cards work

The process is simple. Choose an emotion to focus on (anxiety, any emotion, confidence, focus, gratitude, happiness), and pick the activity that sounds the most beneficial for your current state of mind. Then, let Scribble lead you through a series of activities involving drawing and journaling in your own personal notebook. Each of the 19 activities are designed to help your brain discover shiny, new insights that can smooth the path of your mental health journey.