All the forms of personal life writing listed in an earlier post have one thing in common. They help you get in touch with things that you need to be honest about and confront things you’re using up your psychic energy to avoid. This is equally true, whether those things are in your past, in […]
Why Write?
Why write? Why? Why breathe? You might as well ask me that question. Or why exist? I write because it is an act of love. It is an act of claiming my life. It is an act of doing that I can’t live without doing. I write because I cherish each day. I’m so grateful […]
Through Journaling I Possess My Soul
Journaling helps me slow down and possess my soul (my thoughts, feelings, life experiences and perceptions) with patience. When I take time to record the passing of my hours, I become so aware of how full and rich my hours are. I am in conscious contact with my life, with my self, with God. I […]
#1 Rule for Super Journaling
Always, always, always, ALWAYS date your journal or even your notebook entries! Or even if you just wrote something on an envelope or a napkin, or the back of a grocery receipt. ALWAYS write the date. There is nothing more sad, heart-breaking, and crazy-making, than coming across an entry without a date and not knowing […]
“I, Nephi . . .” First Person, Singular
The first requirement for recovery is to be willing to speak from your own heart, from what in English usage is called the “first person, singular” voice or perspective. It is to be willing to think about and talk and/or write about your own experiences, your own life, your own sadness, pain, loss, fear, resentment, […]
Getting Started
There’s probably no passion (but one which I reserve for God) that God ignites in my heart that is greater than the passion I have for pretty much every form of what many call “Life Writing.” In my lexicon, this broad term includes any of the following “genres”: personal letter writing (whether mailed or not, […]