How Journaling Can Help Us Make Sense of Our Lives
Sep 1, 2023
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Explore the art and practice of journaling with an author, a comedian, and a therapist. They discuss how journaling can help with personal growth, self-reflection, and creativity. They share different techniques, including nature journaling, and the impact of journaling on processing and healing from traumatic experiences.
Journaling can be a powerful habit that fosters healing, growth, and creativity.
Journaling serves as a therapeutic tool for self-expression, healing, and amplifying marginalized voices.
Deep dives
Journaling as a Multifaceted Practice
Journaling is discussed as a practice of getting words on paper for oneself, exploring its role in creativity, mindfulness, and healing.
Journaling as a Therapeutic Tool
The therapeutic value of journaling is explored, with an emphasis on self-expression, healing, and giving a voice to marginalized individuals.
Insights from Diary Expert and Writer
Taisa Frank, a diary expert and author, discusses the importance of personal discovery and developing a personal lexicon through journaling, while a writer shares personal experiences of using journaling to gather material for fiction.
The Power of Mortified and Storytelling
Scott Lifton, from the Mortified podcast, discusses how journals and diaries provide material for storytelling and self-expression, highlighting the cathartic and empowering experience of sharing vulnerable moments in front of an audience.
Keeping a written account of your thoughts, feelings and observations can be a powerful habit – a source of healing, growth, and even creativity. We explore the art and practice of journaling, from stream-of-consciousness writing to gratitude lists to revisiting your most cringe-worthy teenage poetry. We’ll talk with an author, a comedian, and a therapist about the many ways we can document our lives and stories, and we’ll get started during the show. Grab a pen and notebook – we’re journaling.
Guests:
Thaisa Frank, author, "Finding Your Writer's Voice" and five books of fiction; writing instructor, the San Francisco Writers' Grotto; winner, the 2023 Pushcart Literary Prize
Scott Lifton, host and producer, "Mortified"
Jenna Robinson, professor of Psychology, CIIS and the Wright Institute; licensed marriage and family therapist; expressive arts therapist
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