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Ask Our Coach: How do you organize your journals?
People often have many great questions about journal writing – what to write about, how to get started, how to keep going, and so forth. The IAJW Ask Our Coach feature – is here to answer your questions. Feel welcome join the conversation, offer your own responses to the question in our comments below, or … Read More >>
IAJW Member Spotlight – Meet Jennifer Brooker
Meet Jennifer Brooker, IAJW Member from New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada Why did you join the IAJW? I joined IAJW to be part of the journal writing community, to learn more about what others are doing with their journal writing. Our paths can be so diverse. For me, being part of community, hearing / reading … Read More >>
Looking Back on 2018 – Musings, Memories & Moments that Matter Most
Wow, another year flowing by like the tidal waters being called back out to the ocean. My office faces out to Fulford Harbour, on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada. The constant ebb and flow of the tide reminds me that things are always shifting and changing. I love this time of year to harvest the … Read More >>
IAJW Member Spotlight – Lucia Capacchione, PhD
One of my favourite parts about the IAJW is our Journal Council – a group of experts, authors and change makers who make a difference with their respective work in the journaling, creative and expressive writing fields and more! They also make a difference in our IAJW community by sharing their writing tips and wisdom, … Read More >>
How to Feel Hopeful and Inspired in Uncertain Times through Journaling
One of the things I value most about my journal writing practice is that it helps me to cultivate hope and optimism and gratitude in a world that is filled with VUCA. VUCA is an acronym—first used in 1987—to describe or to reflect on the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of general conditions and situations. … Read More >>
A Creative “End of Year” Journaling Process: Look Back & Look Forward
In addition to writing our IAJW blog and our Journal Juice Museletter for our community and members, I am also a regular guest writer for The Coaching Tools Company. TCTC was founded by my dear friend and coaching colleague, Emma-Louise Elsey. Her tools make great journaling exercises! My most recent guest article is offers you … Read More >>
Onward IAJW! A Personal Note from Founder, Ruth Folit
A Message from Lynda Monk, Director, IAJW I recently had the privilege of meeting, for the first time in person, Ruth Folit, Founder of the IAJW, as well as Sheila Bender, one of our Journal Council members. I was thinking about how our shared passion for journal writing is the catalyst for us meeting one … Read More >>
Plea by Frances Balter
I love reading poetry. I am a quote collector. I have the words of others in my journals, on post-it notes hanging on my walls. Powerful words inspire my own writing in my journal and beyond. The following poem Plea by Frances Balter is a wonderful invitation, as Pat Schneider (author of How the Light … Read More >>
IAJW Member Spotlight: Meet Lyn Smith
One of the reasons I love the IAJW is that it is a place to make connections and be inspired through our shared love and interest in the transformational power of journal writing. I am meeting incredible people from different parts of the world through our IAJW membership community and I have decided to start … Read More >>
How to Recharge & Play with Creative Journaling
Do you ever feel like you are going in circles in your journal, writing about the same old thing all the time? Do you feel recharged and replenished after you write in your journal or do you sometimes feel bored and uninspired? Journal writing can stir lots of ideas and emotions, self-expression is cathartic! Journal … Read More >>