Expert Interviews

Welcome to our Member Only library of past interviews with leading journaling experts and creative writers. New interviews will be added regularly.

Full Circle: How to Create Soulful Writing Workshops for Women

Interview with Marlene Schiwy Full Circle: How to Create Soulful (Writing) Workshops for Women In this interview, Marlene shares insights from more than three decades of facilitating women’s writing circles, Jungian study seminars, and expressive arts retreats in Canada and internationally. She discusses her journey as a workshop leader, which began more than thirty years ... Read More >>

2022-07-29T10:27:05-07:00April 25th, 2022|

Journaling for the Health of It!

Interview with Mari L. McCarthy Journaling for the Health of It! In this interview, Mari shares her story of how, during the course of her 25 years Journaling For The Health Of It ® she became her own Health & Wellness Advocate and how she uses her daily Journaling Power Practice to heal her physical, ... Read More >>

2022-07-29T10:27:49-07:00April 1st, 2022|

Writing Your Way to What Matters

Writing Your Way to What Matters Most – Interview with Lorraine Widmer-Carson In this interview, Lorraine shares her story of how her journal helped her write her book, during the COVID 19 pandemic. More than a tool for memoir, Lorraine’s journal habit has helped her identify her real-time priorities and keep pushing in the direction ... Read More >>

2022-03-05T13:05:16-08:00March 5th, 2022|

Guided Year End Journaling Journey – IAJW Event

With Lynda Monk, Director, IAJW.org This was a special year end event and different than our regular ZoomChats.  During this Guided Year End Journaling Journey, over 30 of our IAJW Members gathered to journal together with the help of guided visualizations and journaling prompts. You can experience this year end reflection and dreaming forward into ... Read More >>

2022-01-02T07:49:59-08:00January 2nd, 2022|

Opening to Greater Possibilities in Life through Journaling

Interview with Eric Teplitz In this interview, Eric shares the role journaling has played in his life and how it has consistently helped him tap into inner resources, navigate life’s challenges, and follow the promptings of his heart. You will learn: How journaling helped Eric emerge from an intensely painful period of his life and ... Read More >>

2021-11-20T12:46:33-08:00November 20th, 2021|

Journaling for Mental Health & Stress Reduction

Interview with Dr. Ben Bernstein In this ZoomChat, clinical psychologist Dr Ben Bernstein talks about the benefits he’s received from regular journaling over the last 61 years. Known as “The Stress Doctor,” Dr. B is the author of four books on how stress affects human performance. In this ZoomChat he discusses how journaling, stress reduction ... Read More >>

2021-10-31T18:06:42-07:00October 31st, 2021|

Going Deeper: Using Dance & Journaling to Create Wild Possibility

Interview with Anne Marie Hogya Anne Marie believes in the power of combining journaling and conscious expressive dance, two transformational modalities, to dive deeper into creativity, innovation and wild possibility. In this interview, she shares how she uses movement and writing to help herself and others get unstuck, get moving, and get ready for change. ... Read More >>

2021-10-06T13:20:13-07:00October 6th, 2021|

How to Use Journaling to Write Memoir with Julie Ryan McGue

Interview with Julie Ryan McGue A lifelong journaler, Julie Ryan McGue relied on her stash of notebooks and photographs to craft her recently released, award-winning adoption search memoir, Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging. In this ZoomChat interview, Julie discusses how the journals she kept as a teenager played into various scenes of her ... Read More >>

2021-09-06T20:57:32-07:00September 6th, 2021|

Expanding Your Journaling Horizons

Interview with Dawn Herring In this ZoomChat interview, Dawn speaks on the topic of Expanding Your Journaling Horizons. She shares many facets of her own creative journaling practice while giving you many ideas to keep your journaling relevant, consistent and fun. Learn how journaling in this creative and varied way, will keep you wanting to come back ... Read More >>

2021-08-07T21:09:08-07:00August 7th, 2021|

Writing in the Company of Trees

Interview with Jackee Holder In this interview, you will learn: About the evidence-based research that supports harvesting a more aware and intentional relationship with trees and nature and why this is good for your mind, body and soul. How through journaling your responses and reflections to tree and nature inspired journal prompts, designed to explore ... Read More >>

2021-06-24T14:03:35-07:00June 22nd, 2021|
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