Yay, I’m done with that Creative Arts course! It would have been so fun without all the papers. But I did take away a few helpful things and one of them is that I really love poetry therapy. I know, shocker. Poetry therapy, according to the International Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy, is the use of “the written, spoken, and auditory …
In February I read a fun and different book, Love Will Find You, by Kathryn Alice. The book went through a number of steps and exercises for helping you surmount old obstacles and negativity about dating, become open to accepting love, and attract the right person into your life. I don’t need to tell you that I see this kind of …
I haven’t done a journaling post in a long while and I’m sorry to admit that I haven’t journaled in a long while either. But I have soo much just swirling through my head between everything that’s been going on out there and also in my personal life, so I’m posting this as a reminder to myself to dive back …
You may know that I’m a journaling fan(atic), but I also have a suggestion for anyone who doesn’t love to write. Last December I bought myself this fun line-a-day journal and it is terrific. Each day of the calendar year gets one page, divided into five sections so it can be used for five years. Each day gets enough space …
I’m going through an exercise from Rabbi Nivin’s Elul workshop that’s been interesting and helpful. It’s a year-in-review writing exercise that covers different areas of your life. Basically, you go through different topics and write about what worked and didn’t work this year. The idea is to scan backwards over the past year and just write whatever comes to mind, …
I write in my journal almost every day. Sometimes I write a few paragraphs and sometimes I write more than five pages. I write about anything that comes to mind — stuff going on in my life, creative ideas, to-do lists…Sometimes I reread what I write and sometimes I don’t. I try to keep to it regularly even when I’m …
Tonight I did a free writing class for Chanukah from Yocheved Rottenberg of Write Your Way Home. (I’m sure if you contact her through the site, she’d send it to you). The following is what I wrote for one of the exercises, a Captured Moment from a Chanukah gone by. I walk across the expansive dining room to the …
Open up an album or a box of family photos. Find old pictures of yourself (alone and/or with other people). A variety of photos. Not just the cutest ones. The ones that make your heart twinge when you look at them. The birthday party where I threw that tantrum. The hayride where everyone else is smiling and I’m glaring at …
The start of a new year is an especially good time to open a notebook and start journaling. Even if writing was never your thing, just putting pen to paper and diving right in will help you access wisdom and insight and get to know yourself better. Journaling has been a tremendous game changer for me and I want everyone …
This is the journaling technique that I used most intuitively when I got into journaling months ago. A Springboard is a writing prompt to launch you into your writing session. It’s a sentence or two that you plunk on the top of the page without thinking too hard, and use as an entryway to your writing session. It may be …
