reflective journaling

A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: A Fulfilling Life

March 7, 2011
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EACH person defines what it means to have a “fulfilled life” in his or her own way. For some, it means following artistic passions, finding the right career, or helping others. For others, it means building satisfying relationships and strong community ties. For still others, it means living a life of adventure and adrenalin-producing risk. [...]

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Blogtalk: Learning More With Reflective Journaling

November 12, 2010
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JOURNAL WRITING sites, such as Writing Through Life, talk a lot about reflective journaling as a way to think about and gain insights from your personal experiences and emotional/spiritual journey. But reflective journaling also has broader applications. Char Paul, PSI Tutor’s, post on the use of reflective journaling in the study of literature points out [...]

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Journaling the Sensory Details: Touch

September 14, 2010
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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
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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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Writing Through Gratitude: What it Means

July 20, 2010
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A FRIEND recently told me that she keeps a journal only during the tough times and that she finds it difficult to write when everything seems to be going well. And she’s not the first person to have told me that. I’ve noticed that when things are difficult, we’ll write the things we can’t find [...]

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Blogtalk: What We Carry Around

July 15, 2010
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THIS WEEK’S writing prompt on womensmemoirs.com by Promptly Portland is a fun one for  journal writers, so I thought I’d piggyback on it. If you love to write and you’re a woman — sorry guys — and you haven’t yet checked out this informative website, I highly recommend it. In fact, I like it so [...]

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Why Write? Emotional Healing

June 7, 2010
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A HEALTHY PHYSICAL PROCESS means that we take in food and water from our environment, process it for nutrients, then expel the wastes. In the same way, a healthy emotional process means that we take in our life experiences, process them for nutrients, find what we need to grow and survive, and then expel the [...]

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