Remembering Pat Schneider, June 1, 1934 - August 10, 2020. Pat was a well-loved poet and author of ten books including five volumes of poems, How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice and Writing Alone & With Others, both from Oxford University Press, and Wake Up Laughing: A Spiritual Autobiography. Her libretti ... Read More >>
Lynda Monk, MSW, RSW, CPCC, is the Director of the International Association for Journal Writing. She is a Registered Social Worker and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach. She has a speciality in therapeutic journaling for self-care, burnout prevention, personal growth, and resilience. Lynda is co-editor, along with Eric Maisel, of two recent books including... Transformational Journaling ... Read More >>
Joyce Chapman is a leading expert in the field of journal keeping and has been involved for over 50 years in education, motivational training, consulting, and coaching for individuals and businesses internationally. She is passionate about journaling and has spent her life as a teacher, coach and facilitator helping others actualize their dreams using her ... Read More >>
Remembering Louise DeSalvo September 27, 1942 - October 31, 2018 Sadly, Louise passed away on October 31st, 2018. She was a true pioneer, teacher and mentor in the Writing to Heal field. She enriched and inspired many life writers worldwide. She will be missed and her teachings will live on through her books and words. ... Read More >>
Hannah Braime is a writer and teacher who believes the world is a richer place when we have the courage to be fully self-expressed. She shares practical psychology-based articles, tools and resources on living a full and meaningful life over at Becoming Who You Are. Hannah has been journaling for over a decade and is ... Read More >>
Judy Reeves is a writer and teacher who has published four books on writing, including the award-winning A Writer’s Book of Days, and, most recently, Wild Women, Wild Voices. Her work has appeared in the San Diego Reader, The Frozen Moment, A Year in Ink, Connotations Press, Serving House Journal, Waymark, and Expressive Writing, Classroom ... Read More >>
Marlene Schiwy, Ph.D., is the author of A Voice of Her Own: Women and the Journal Writing Journey, and Simple Days: A Journal on What Really Matters. Her first story was published when she was 13 years old and she never looked back. Her journal consists of more than two hundred volumes, and her book, ... Read More >>
Christina Baldwin is a writer and seminar presenter of 30+ years' experience. She has contributed two classic books to the renaissance of personal writing, including the well-known Life's Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice, revised and reissued in 2007 after 100,000 original sales. From her corresponding study of personal growth and group dynamics she ... Read More >>
As the director of educational outreach at the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center for twenty-six years, Merle Saferstein worked closely with hundreds of Holocaust survivors helping them to pass along their Legacy of Remembrance to hundreds of thousands of students and teachers. When she retired from the Holocaust Center, she developed a course entitled Living ... Read More >>
Beth Jacobs, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and life-time journaler, and the combination has led to a career in therapeutic writing, and several books, including Writing for Emotional Balance (New Harbinger Publishers, 2005), Paper Sky: What Happened After Anne Frank’s Diary Ended (CreateSpace, 2014), Grandparents Rock (edited writings from an expressive writing group, CreateSpace, 2015), ... Read More >>