Interview with Ahava Shira, PhD In this interview, Ahava Shira shares her story of how her decades-long journey of memoir writing has allowed her to cultivate an ever-expanding space of loving compassion for herself and others. She will share how this devotion to the heart and craft (and play) of memoir has also contributed to freeing ... Read More >>
Interview with Eric Maisel, PhD About this Interview You can help yourself better understand your appetites, more effectively lose weight and maintain weight loss, and actively live your life purposes if you journal in a focused way using Eric Maisel’s focused journal method. Easy to understand and highly effective, this eight-step method helps you gain ... Read More >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>