I watch him every night weary, tears at the ready but he sighs, squares his shoulders Holding demons at bay but he knows another fight is coming Another battle for…

Stop.

Confinement is a choice

Each morning

There is a kind of stillness I experience

Captured Moments. This is a journal technique in which you write about a single event in detail. Kathleen Adams describes it as a “frozen morsel of time” in her book Journal to the Self: Twenty Two Paths to Personal Growth. …

A 5-Minute Sprint — Just do it , they say. Put your head down and get to work. Make a list, action steps, cross them off the list. Remember when people talked about massive action? What is that? What about just action, consistently, step by step? Be gentle, yet fierce. Take actions, be kind…

Write quickly, allow your ideas to flow onto the page without censoring yourself and without stopping. This is the 5-Minute Sprint, a journal technique that I use a lot in my Journal to the Self classes. …

From my pre-teen’s small hardbound book with the word Diary printed on it, complete with a tiny lock and key, to my daily morning pages from The Artist’s Way, I have been journaling in some form or another for almost forty years. …