the practice of journaling
Where it’s you and you. The only rule is truth.
“I write entirely to find out what I am thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
— Joan Didion
I learned when going through an incredibly hard time how healing journaling could really be. I was given news that turned my life upside down. The future I saw for myself was gone wiped clean.
And a notebook and pen saved me.
I realized that this is a tool anyone can use whether you’re going through a hard time or not.
Journaling at it’s rawest is a way for me to understand. Understand myself. Understand everything. It’s not just a way to record and remember. It’s way to process, release and fully feel and heal.
The journal is your witness. We all need a witness. To the good and the bad. A place to get quiet with yourself and find out what you really think.
Journaling is you on the outside. Something you can hold. There is something so nurturing about that.
Journaling is my meditation.
Beth teaches classes in the practice of journaling, one on one journaling sessions, and is available for corporate workshops:
What would we do in a journaling class?
· Create a journaling practice that works for you
· Learn why journaling is not just for hard times
· Explore different ways to journal through prompts, questions, lists, letters, and mind maps etc. (It’s not just Dear Diary!)
· Discover the benefits to journaling including how it actually can change your brain chemistry and help you sleep.
· Steal techniques from prolific people like Leonardo Divinci, Frida Khalo, Marie Curie, Henry David Thoreau who kept regular journals and contemporaries like David Sedaris and Austin Kleon (to name a few)