Writing and journaling can be a very healing, therapeutic, and self-reflective process, but sometimes it's hard just staring at 2 blank pieces of paper in your notebook. We'll get you started with Howard University English professor Kyr Mack in this masculinity and manhood journaling discussion + workshop.

 

This week's show is a journaling workshop and throughout the episode we talk about the power of writing down our thoughts and processing our feelings through the exercise of journaling. What's the story you tell yourself about your life? Through journaling we're able to reflect on the past, meditate on the current, and create the future. 

 

We discuss the following prompts:

• What are three major emotions that you’re carrying right now?
• What’s one thought that has been getting the best of you lately? How has it been influencing your behavior?
• What are some of the earliest messages you can recall receiving about masculinity? Who were/are some of the key influences in your understanding of masculinity?
• How did these messages impact you? Do you still believe in these messages? Why or why not?
• What are you grateful for at this moment?
• What do you love most about yourself?

 

So get your pen and pad out, your phone's note app or use a word document and join us in today's workshop. 

 

Watch this episode on our youtube channel: I Put My Lifetime in Between the Paper's Line's Journaling Workshop (YouTube)

 

Register to the rest of our Live Shows!

 

• From We Real Cool to We Just Real w/ Jason Rosario - 5/21 @ 7PM EST
• Creativity, Imagination, & Mental Health w/ Expressions Untold - 5/26 @ 7PM EST
• Creating Freedom in Confinement [Virtual Support Group - Black Men Only] w/ Jarrick the Floating Yogi - 5/28 @ 6PM EST

 

Resources for today's episode:

• Kyr's Journaling Advice from This Session
• My Son Keeps a Daily Gratitude Journal — Maybe We All Should - Level Mag
• James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing
• Audre Lorde Questionnaire to Oneself
• What’s All This About Journaling? - NYTimes
• May is Mental Health Awareness Month 💚 Journaling is cool. Prompts for those who want to start. 
• When Men Should Keep a Journal

 

Do you have any questions for us? Did you learn something during today's episode? Did you change your mind about a particular topic? 

 

Let us us know. Email us your questions/comments/feedback at [email protected] and we'll read and respond to your email on an upcoming episode. 

 

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