This week I am really excited to share some thoughts about the power of journaling and offer you my free journal prompts for moms!! If you aren’t currently a mom, it will make a great gift for any moms you might know. Mother’s Day isn’t too far away As part of International Coaching week last year I attended a webinar on journaling with Lynda Monk, who is part of the International Association for Journal Writing. She spoke about Therapeutic Journaling which is “any type of writing or expressive process intended for personal growth or psychological healing. It is an evolving, creative, organic process with few actual rules.”
Journaling provides a safe space to express emotions and explore feelings. “Whatever you write is right,” Monk said. As you write about your thoughts and feelings, you gain insight into patterns and places you might be stuck and then begin to take action. However, if your writing is negative and you only reflect on it without gaining positive insight then it won’t be a healing experience. She also cautioned against writing about traumatic experiences too soon. The idea is to reflect and move forward.
One of the exercises we did in this webinar was a guided journal meditation that I invite you to try. We wrote for five minutes on the prompt: “When I slow down and relax I notice….” then spent two minutes reflecting on what we wrote using this prompt: “What I feel about what I wrote”. I think you will find the exercise to be a good experience!
I have found journaling also helps with spinning thoughts. Sometimes I don’t even write complete sentences, I just do a brain dump and list everything that I have been thinking about to get it out of my head and on paper. Give it a try!
For more journaling tips, visit this link:
https://iajw.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/10-Transformational-Journaling-Tips.pdf
And if you want the FREE journal prompt resource click the link in my Instagram bio @tarabillmancoaching!