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Do you need a map or a box of chocolates?

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , , on December 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I have to thank Mark Matousek, with whom I took a class at the Therapeutic Writing Institute, for his insightful article in Psychology Today: What’s Your Metaphor? Shifting Shapes In The New Year. This post is my response. Having never asked myself what word or phrase I consider my life metaphor, and how it affects [...]

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Again with the Tension?! (Or, It’s OK not to know)

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , , on December 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »

It’s happened again. An old theme has come circling around, adding another new level of understanding. June 2009: I wrote this post on a different blog, which I then re-posted here in July 2011. This is the gist: During a Journal Therapy training I wrote (well, it kind of wrote itself while I held the [...]

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Trust your pen

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, Writing & Career, tagged , , , on December 2, 2011 | 5 Comments »

I have to share a beautiful experience that speaks to the power of the pen to tap into something deeper and older than we can explain. This morning I was reading The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler. I won’t go into all the emotions this book arouses in me but I cannot emphasize [...]

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Gotta dance!

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Memoir, tagged , , on November 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »

When I was a very little girl I loved to dance. Once a week my Nana would take me to the Senior Center (which in England I think they used to call the Old Age Pensioner’s Club – nice) so I could gavotte around for their entertainment. I loved it. And I almost killed my [...]

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An open letter to those who are human

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »

C.P. Estes (author of Women Who Run With the Wolves) always addresses her readers as “Dear Brave Souls.” I do not know her exact reasoning for this but I can guess that she knows how much courage it takes to live in this world, to face the pains and heartbreaks, unknowns and setbacks. But even [...]

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A turret and some (alone) time

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Writing & Career, tagged , , , on November 15, 2011 | 12 Comments »

I’m sitting in my new Writer’s Turret, as I am calling it. It’s actually just a small room we recently created by putting up a dividing wall in our son’s large bedroom. It is a north-facing room and I was concerned that I would feel the lack of light. But with my desk directly next [...]

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The Word vs. my words

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, tagged , , on October 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »

You know that feeling when a connection suddenly clicks in your mind? It is enlightening, almost joyful. I have even experienced it to be mind-boggling. Connections can be and are made all the time, connections that weave our world and those in it together. Connections – like the strands of a spider’s web – bond [...]

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Introducing “Dear Joanna”

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts on October 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Have a journaling question? Wondering what expressive writing is or the benefits of it? Or what Authentic Voice might be? Or even what paper or pen is best?  Ask me here. I will answer in the form of a blog post unless it doesn’t seem appropriate to do so (for confidentiality reasons). Thanks for writing! [...]

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Hungry fingers. Or, What brings you joy.

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged , on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

This is going to be one of those posts where I just start writing in order to figure out what I’m going to write about. Which, dear writerly friends, is a very good way to start writing. Just write something. Anything. You’ll get where you need to go in just a little while. October has [...]

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Burning Rage

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, tagged , , on September 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »

This is a very personal post. It is the result of trauma that occurred because my voice was muted. I see this “dream” and the writing of it is as the whisper of my returning voice (a loud stage whisper, perhaps?).  Rage, which is a socially unacceptable emotion, especially for women, is coming forward and [...]

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