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Blogtalk: Journaling News – October 1, 2010

October 1, 2010

ONCE every four weeks, Blogtalk: Journaling News highlights articles about journaling, research, and recent blog posts about various facets of journal writing — benefits, ways to start and keep writing, and tips for continued practice. Read on …

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Why Write? Making Meaning of the Meaningless

September 28, 2010

SOMETIMES life just doesn’t seem to make sense. Bad things happen to good people and good things happen to people who don’t seem to deserve them. Creative acts, such as journal writing and art, can help us uncover the personal value of every experience.

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Blogtalk: Writing about Photographs and Obstacles

September 17, 2010

Writing is the best way I know to overcome obstacles, to explore underlying attitudes and beliefs that contribute to our “stuckness,” and to deepen your self-understanding. As I was blogsurfing this morning (did I just make up a word?) , I came across Sharon Lippincott’s latest post titled “Writing Your Way Out of the Dungeon of Despair.” I love this post for a number of reasons.

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Journaling the Sensory Details: Touch

September 14, 2010

THINK for a moment about the sense of touch (the ability to feel temperature, pressure, vibration, and texture) and how much it affects our lives. Now ask yourself, how much of your journal or memoir writing includes the wonderful details this sense offers us? If you’re like me, we don’t always include a lot of [...]

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Making Meaning Through Journal Writing: Rewriting Our Stories

September 7, 2010

MOST PEOPLE carry some form of story around with then. When someone asks who we are, we recite what we do for a living, the roles we play (mother, daughter, husband, father, son, caregiver). And when we tell the stories of our lives, we repeat the things we’ve decided are our truths. Perhaps we were [...]

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Ten Journal Writing Prompts for New Love

August 31, 2010

SO, YOU THINK you’ve just met the perfect boy, girl, man, or woman. Journaling through all the ups and downs at the beginning of a new relationship can help you understand your emotions and keep your head in the process. Journal writing gives you the opportunity to express and clarify your feelings in a safe [...]

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Blogtalk: Honoring the Creative Process

August 27, 2010

Adrienne Crezo, in her blog post “On Being Submissive,” beautifully articulates writers’ (and artists’) dilemma: we possess a need to create through our art, second only to our physical needs to breath, eat, and sleep, yet — human that we are — feel inadequate to the task. Our minds imagine great works of sculpture, words [...]

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