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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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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: Journaling for Direction

August 6, 2010

ONE of the many, many benefits of journaling is that we get to write with a sense of play and exploration that, in other ways, we may have left behind with our mudpie-making days. Journaling can be as fun as splashing in a puddle with our galoshes on, only it’s all done with words, and [...]

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Blogtalk: What We Carry Around

July 15, 2010

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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Blogtalk: Beginner’s Mind

July 8, 2010

WHAT would it be like to forget all that we think we know and approach each task, each day, with the mindset of a beginner? The question comes to me after reading Susan Ideus’s blog post titled “The Time Has Come.” For Susan, it’s all about how to approach a new lifestyle — that of [...]

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