Comments on: Writing Through Gratitude: What it Means http://www.writingthroughlife.com/writing-through-gratitude-what-it-means Journal Writing / Journaling to Make Sense of Life and Tell Our Stories Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:15:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Amber Lea Starfire http://www.writingthroughlife.com/writing-through-gratitude-what-it-means/comment-page-1#comment-340 Amber Lea Starfire Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:38:37 +0000 http://www.writingthroughlife.com/?p=962#comment-340 Mel, thanks for the comment. It's okay to be corny and trite. After all, you're just writing for yourself, right? Writing gratitude lifts the spirits and reminds us how lucky we really are. Let your inner critic take a break; tell her to go have lunch or something, while you write your heart out. Mel, thanks for the comment. It’s okay to be corny and trite. After all, you’re just writing for yourself, right? Writing gratitude lifts the spirits and reminds us how lucky we really are. Let your inner critic take a break; tell her to go have lunch or something, while you write your heart out.

]]> By: Mel Braun http://www.writingthroughlife.com/writing-through-gratitude-what-it-means/comment-page-1#comment-333 Mel Braun Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:53:28 +0000 http://www.writingthroughlife.com/?p=962#comment-333 This is an area that should be easy for me. I am a generally thankful/grateful person. But I can't seem to write optomistically without hating it. I think my upbeat writing is corny and trite. I'm going to try it again, with more serious intent. This writing challenge will be challenging, for sure. This is an area that should be easy for me. I am a generally thankful/grateful person. But I can’t seem to write optomistically without hating it. I think my upbeat writing is corny and trite. I’m going to try it again, with more serious intent. This writing challenge will be challenging, for sure.

]]> By: Amber Lea Starfire http://www.writingthroughlife.com/writing-through-gratitude-what-it-means/comment-page-1#comment-184 Amber Lea Starfire Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:34:43 +0000 http://www.writingthroughlife.com/?p=962#comment-184 Sharon, thank you for commenting. I know what you mean about a journal making you seem bipolar when you write only during the difficult times. My old journals make me seem like a whiner. Like you, since writing has become a daily activity, it provides a space to record my story, work out problems and issues, interpret dreams, make plans, have discussions with myself, and be grateful for all the wonderful things in my life. Writing is a healing tool and a craft-of-writing tool, where I can play and try out new things. And by the way, I love "write brain"! Sharon, thank you for commenting. I know what you mean about a journal making you seem bipolar when you write only during the difficult times. My old journals make me seem like a whiner. Like you, since writing has become a daily activity, it provides a space to record my story, work out problems and issues, interpret dreams, make plans, have discussions with myself, and be grateful for all the wonderful things in my life. Writing is a healing tool and a craft-of-writing tool, where I can play and try out new things.

And by the way, I love “write brain”!

]]> By: Sharon Lippincott http://www.writingthroughlife.com/writing-through-gratitude-what-it-means/comment-page-1#comment-183 Sharon Lippincott Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:44:51 +0000 http://www.writingthroughlife.com/?p=962#comment-183 I used to journal during tough times or top-of-the-mountain times, so for much of my life any surviving journal entries sound as if I'm bipolar! Now I'm a regular journaler and seldom skip more than one or two days a week. If nothing else, I comment on what's happening, and I'll always include something I'm grateful for. I"m also spending lots more time thinking with my fingers about new ideas and insights as I listen to podcasts and interviews, ideas for things to write, delicious descriptions ... my journal is becoming an integral part of my write brain. I used to journal during tough times or top-of-the-mountain times, so for much of my life any surviving journal entries sound as if I’m bipolar! Now I’m a regular journaler and seldom skip more than one or two days a week. If nothing else, I comment on what’s happening, and I’ll always include something I’m grateful for.

I”m also spending lots more time thinking with my fingers about new ideas and insights as I listen to podcasts and interviews, ideas for things to write, delicious descriptions … my journal is becoming an integral part of my write brain.

]]> By: Amber Lea Starfire http://www.writingthroughlife.com/writing-through-gratitude-what-it-means/comment-page-1#comment-181 Amber Lea Starfire Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:35:21 +0000 http://www.writingthroughlife.com/?p=962#comment-181 Thank you, iHanna for your comment. And feel free to share some of the things from your list. I'm sure it would inspire the rest of us. Thank you, iHanna for your comment. And feel free to share some of the things from your list. I’m sure it would inspire the rest of us.

]]> By: iHanna http://www.writingthroughlife.com/writing-through-gratitude-what-it-means/comment-page-1#comment-180 iHanna Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:36:43 +0000 http://www.writingthroughlife.com/?p=962#comment-180 Gratetude is such a nice feeling to cultivate! Today I'm grateful for so many things, I will write a list in my diary for sure. Gratetude is such a nice feeling to cultivate! Today I’m grateful for so many things, I will write a list in my diary for sure.

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