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In this episode of JournalTalk Q&A, Mari L. McCarthy and I contemplate a question sent to us from a parent who asks, “How can I get my teenager interested in journaling?” Mari and I offer up a few suggestions, and we look forward to hearing yours!

Fuel the dialogue! Feel free to write your comments below with more journaling questions. Or, provide your own answers and opinions to this week’s featured question.

For further enrichment, please also reference JournalTalk Episode #10, featuring Carrie Leigh Sandoval, who offers some additional ways to talk to teens about journaling. (JournalTalk Q&A, Episode #4, May 19, 2014)

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Listen to Beth Terrence share some ways journaling can facilitate a sense of connection. Beth Terrence is a Shaman, Holistic Health & Wellness Practitioner, Speaker and Writer. She has been working in the field of holistic healing and transformation for over eighteen years. Her mission is to support others in living a heart-centered, balanced and joyful life by discovering their healer within.

Beth’s writes regularly on her blog, The Heart of Awakening, which offers holistic and transformational resources including her annual program, “May Is For Metta: 31 Days Of Loving-kindness Practice” for virtual meditation. Beth is also a facilitator and program developer for Heal My Voice, an international organization that helps to empower women through writing and sharing their stories. She is currently developing a pilot program that brings writing and journaling into addictions treatment and recovery.

In this episode, we learn from Beth about personalizing your journal notebook to support a theme or intention, and some additional tips for using journal-writing to foster a sense of (re)connection of our parts to wholeness and balance. (JournalTalk, Episode #31, May 12, 2014)

SPECIAL OFFER: Beth has created a special gift and offer for JournalTalk listeners who would like to explore “A Holistic Approach To Life & Self-Care”; this includes a journaling exercise she shares with her clients. Access this offer at http://www.bethterrence.com/JournalTalk.html

Book Review: Albert Diaz Cruz gives a brief book review for another classic journaling guidebook, Rita D. Jacobs’ The Way In: Journal Writing for Self-Discovery Click here, or on the book cover photo to purchase, and Amazon.com will donate to JournalTalk a commission. Thank you!

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Mari L. McCarthy from Create Write Now joins me as we answer your questions on journal-writing. This week, we were excited to hear from someone who wants to start her own neighborhood journaling group, and asked, “How should I structure the time we spend together journaling?”

Fuel the dialogue! Feel free to write your comments below with more journaling questions. Or, provide your own answers and opinions to this week’s featured question.

For further enrichment, please also reference some of the episodes of JournalTalk listed below which feature experts who provide tips on starting your own journaling group. (JournalTalk Q&A, Episode #3, May 5, 2014)

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I met Jackee Holder online, giving away some amazing free downloads, such as her Journaling Journey Guide. After speaking with her for just a few minutes, I knew you’d love hearing her wealth of experience and high-impact stories about keeping a soulful writing practice.

Based in the United Kingdom, Jackee is an Executive and Leadership coach, a coach trainer, an action learning set facilitator, intuitive facilitator, writer, published author, interfaith minister and creativity expert. Jackee works nationally and internationally with teams, groups and individuals. She is the author of some great books, including: Soul Purpose, Be Your Own Best Life Coach, and 49 Ways To Write Yourself Well.

Our conversation moved buoyantly through some rich journaling topics, from the importance of appreciating our role models, to reaching deeper levels of forgiveness, to journaling for business and career growth. This episode is brimming with juicy journal prompts!

SPECIAL OFFER: The first 10 people to write to Jackee, mentioning “JournalTalk” will get a FREE seat in the Sexy, Sacred Journaling course that she is putting together later this year.

Jackee’s website is full of information and events, including this upcoming writing retreat in Kalikalos, Greece, which she is leading! Who’s going??!  (JournalTalk, Episode #30, April 27, 2014)

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Mari L. McCarthy joins me as we answer your questions on journal-writing. This week, we answer a blogger’s question: Does my blogging count as journaling?  Mari and I should have stated a humorous caveat to our answer, “It depends on whether anybody is reading your blog!”

Feel free to write your comments below with more of your questions, or your own opinions to the questions already posed, to fuel the dialogue some more!

For further enrichment on this question, please also reference Episode #8 of JournalTalk, to get the perspective of Dr. Joseph Bernard, an accomplished blogger and journal-writer. (JournalTalk Q&A, Episode #2, April 21, 2014)

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My guest this week is Heather Severson, an award-winning writer, educator and gypsy scholar, plying her craft wherever adults gather for self-development and education. Heather’s formal writing practice began with diaries written at the feet of her scholarly grandfather. Thirty-five years and two hundred and sixty-five notebooks later, Heather has a myriad of effective, healing, and life-improving practices to share with other journal writers. She goes beyond writing prompts and periodic venting, and helps people find sustainable happiness, as well as ways to keep organized!

Heather is the facilitator of the popular Write It Out Journal Workshop discussion group on LinkedIn. She has quite the list of accomplishments on her resume, and we only had time to discuss a few of them. Speaking of resumes, I loved hearing Heather give us a journaling exercise you won’t want to miss: Write out your personal “resume of survival” to remind yourself of the challenges you’ve overcome. A great gratitude boost!

It was this episode that I learned about hypergraphia, a condition which Heather modestly confesses she is blessed to have.  When she’s not working on publishing her memoir (a gruesome tale about being taken advantage of by a schoolteacher) Heather enjoys sharing the joys of journaling with others, and helps people organize their journal collections so the material is accessible for future reference.

Book Review: Albert Diaz Cruz gives a firm book recommendation this week for Dr. Ira Progoff’s At A Journal Workshop: Writing to Access the Power of the Unconscious and Evoke Creative Ability. Use the link here and JournalTalk will receive a small percentage of your purchase. Thanks for supporting this podcast! (JournalTalk, Episode #29, April 14, 2014)

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Welcome to the first in a sub-series of JournalTalk podcasts! Mari L. McCarthy from Create Write Now joins me as we answer your questions on journaling.

This week, we open the lively and ever-evolving debate about Handwriting vs. Typing your journals. Mari and I touch on several aspects of this question, and hope to bring you an answer that puts things in an empowering perspective. (JournalTalk Q&A, Episode #1, April 7, 2014)

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My guest this episode wrote in her journal the details of the last forty days of her exit from the public school system, and into her own business as “The Writing Whisperer“. Today, Shannon Hernandez helps people solidify the words they use to connect with their audience, as creator of the “Word Ambassador Circle”, of which I am proud to be part.

With laughter and playfulness, Shannon and I discuss a variety of journaling topics, from the simple (How many notebooks do you have going at one time? Do you use pens or pencils?) to the profound. Shannon shares her plans for “writing expeditions” — connecting journaling with the outdoors — as well as a helpful “Year in Review” journal-writing exercise.

Book Review: Albert Diaz Cruz gives his journal-writing book recommendation this week for Christina Baldwin’s book, One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing. Use the link here and JournalTalk will receive a small percentage of your purchase. Thanks for supporting this podcast! (JournalTalk, Episode #28, March 31, 2014)

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As promised in Episode #13, Ruth Folit (the brains behind the LifeJournal Online software) has come back to share about the International Association for Journal Writing.

In this episode, we discuss how the Association got started, its reputation and offerings, and what Ruth has learned from her time as founder. As usual, we get to hear some inspiring ways that journaling can produce amazing results in daily living.

Special Offer: For listeners of JournalTalk, Ruth is extending your IAJW membership by six months, when you gift a year’s membership to a friend. Know anyone who loves journaling? They’ll thank you for this library of resources! (JournalTalk, Episode #27, March 17, 2014)

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It’s time to call in the great-grandfather of journaling himself, Dr. Ira Progoff! In this episode, I share a clip from a past interview with Dr. Progoff, who is the founder of The Dialogue House, inventor of the most famous journaling methodology, and as far as I can tell, the first psychologist to ever prescribe the use of journaling!

I discuss the Progoff Intensive Journal Method with Ira’s son, Jon Progoff, who shares with us an insider’s perspective on Ira’s career and contributions to the world. This conversation inspired me to book a flight to the nearest Progoff workshop (theyr’e still being offered all around the country at an affordable price). I attended an amazing four-day workshop in Tucson, AZ, and got a LOT of writing done. In a separate episode, I share my findings and reactions to the Progoff experience.

Book Review: You might also check out Dr. Progoff’s book, At a Journal Workshop. (JournalTalk, Episode #26, March 2, 2014)

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