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3 Secrets to a Transformational Journaling Practice
Journaling is a powerful practice whether you’re expressing gratitude on a regular basis or sorting out past trauma. There are secrets to using writing as a tool for self-discovery, healing and transformation so get ready to learn how to create a simple practice that changes your life.
In 2015 I took my journaling to another level and began writing my next book with the help of NaNoWriMo, a free online book-writing inspiration program. The goal was to write a 30,000-word book in thirty days. Mine ended up at 65,000 words and detailed every wound of my childhood. What came out onto those pages I would later describe as Feng Shui for my soul.
What happened after that was a surge of creative energy. I’d cleared the emotional baggage by writing my stories, a process in the talk therapy world they describe as narrative therapy. I gave myself permission to feel, to connect words with those feelings and to write uncensored. And as a result I felt something shift inside me.
I’m no stranger to journaling having saved all the diaries and notebooks I’ve ever written in since I was fifteen. That’s thirty five years of journaling, in case you were wondering. The missing link to the writing becoming a tool for healing was the body connection; the link to my intuition and the soul-essence I was born with.
