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Journaling

The Best Book You'll Ever Read: Your Own Dream Journal

Kelly Sullivan Walden | Posted 05.10.2013 | Healthy Living
Kelly Sullivan Walden

Allow your dream journal to be a bridge to connect your nocturnal dreams with your real life... and ultimately with the life of your dreams.

15 Things Every Woman Should Write Down Right Now

Posted 05.10.2013 | OWN

You should always carry a notebook to capture what most needs remembering so that, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, you'll never be without good reading mat...

LISTEN: Teenage Diaries, From 16 Years Ago

Posted 05.02.2013 | Teen

Sixteen years ago, NPR aired a special series called "Teenage Diaries," chronicling the lives of five teens -- Amanda, Juan, Frankie, Melissa and Jos...

Keeping a Cancer Journal: Your Private Healing Journey

Laurie Nadel | Posted 04.06.2013 | Healthy Living
Laurie Nadel

Keeping a journal can help a cancer patient express deeply held feelings that may be too difficult to voice aloud, and help a patient to navigate a complex inner landscape that must be traveled alone. And starting a journal requires just a few minutes a day.

Slowing Down to Wake Up

Mitch Ditkoff | Posted 04.03.2013 | Books
Mitch Ditkoff

In today's hyper-caffeinated, attention deficit-disordered world, most of us long for a pause button powerful enough to stop more than just our electronic devices. Like our endlessly spinning hard disk of a brain, for example. Or the downward spiral of the economy.

On Taking Your Own Advice

Janet M. Neal | Posted 03.22.2013 | Healthy Living
Janet M. Neal

Life is not all rosy all the time. Sometimes we get a splinter in our soul. Something is there that doesn't belong and until we get it out -- all of it out -- it is painful.

Why More Teenage Girls Are Keeping Diaries

The Huffington Post | Carolyn Gregoire | Posted 01.18.2013 | Teen

Although the phrase "Dear Diary" may call to mind an outdated girlhood of the pre-digital days, the adolescent tradition of recording one's every pass...

'Shocking Family Secrets': Blocked Memories Of Serial Killer Father

Posted 12.14.2012 | TV

On "Shocking Family Secrets," Travis Vining was having inexplicable medical issues -- major back pains, frequent fevers and migraines, sleep apnea -- ...

How Writing Changed My Thinking

Karen Horneffer-Ginter, Ph.D. | Posted 01.07.2013 | Books
Karen Horneffer-Ginter, Ph.D.

It wasn't until I had crossed the threshold into motherhood that I came to understand the healing potential of writing. I needed all the coping strategies I could find to manage the overwhelming experience of new parenthood.

Stress And Storytelling

Paula Davis-Laack | Posted 01.07.2013 | Books
Paula Davis-Laack

If you're one of the many millions of people who are in need of a break, putting your stress into words can have powerful positive effects.

Laid Off? Got a Job Interview? It Might Do a Lot of Good to Journal

Claudia Ricci | Posted 12.10.2012 | Healthy Living
Claudia Ricci

Pennebaker's work certainly speaks to the power of journaling. But for me, the power of writing extends beyond journaling to any kind of writing that speaks to my soul.

10 Ways To Discover Your Unique Gift

Laura Berman Fortgang | Posted 12.04.2012 | Healthy Living
Laura Berman Fortgang

Everyone has something unique to offer. Give yourself the opportunity to find it. A fulfilling life will emerge from a conscientious approach to living and sharing what is in your talent DNA.

On Pets and Legacy

Rachael Freed | Posted 11.24.2012 | Healthy Living
Rachael Freed

Have you ever considered the lessons you learned and the love you expressed through your relationship with animals? Pets connect us to nature and are one of nature's best sources of love.

I Found - And Read - A Stranger's Diary

Emma Orlow | Posted 11.19.2012 | Teen
Emma Orlow

It seemed odd that someone would donate this diary (complete with name, address, and school) to a stranger. I had stumbled upon a historic document about a suburban teenager from who-knows-when.

The Magic In Writing

Ginnie Love | Posted 09.10.2012 | Healthy Living
Ginnie Love

There's a magic in writing. It's cleansing, enriching, renewing and grounding. It allows us to process the emotions and events of our life.

Journaling as a Coping Device

Kelley Harrell | Posted 08.31.2012 | Healthy Living
Kelley Harrell

Even if you don't write, give journaling a try. Sit down and write whatever comes. There are no rules or boundaries. You don't have to approach journaling with any specific intention other than to offer yourself the outlet.

7 Ways To Spark Creativity

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 07.26.2012 | Healthy Living
Gretchen Rubin

I've read a lot of advice about how to spark creativity. Everyone's creativity takes a different form, however, so the advice that works varies from person to person.

Staying True To The 'Course'

Gabrielle Bernstein | Posted 07.08.2012 | Healthy Living
Gabrielle Bernstein

My primary guide on my journey to self-love has been the metaphysical text "A Course in Miracles." The Course is a self-study curriculum emphasizing practical applications for relinquishing fear in all areas of life.

When Worms Fail Me

Melinda Wentzel | Posted 06.30.2012 | Parents
Melinda Wentzel

I've made a solemn pledge to engage my daughters in conversation each day -- to stop whatever it is I happen to be doing and tune into their respective worlds.

A Notebook You'll Want To Write In

The Huffington Post | Kaitlyn Davis | Posted 10.11.2012 | HuffPost Home

Photo by Lori Dunbar of Paisley Wallpaper If you're anything like us, you've promised to be more organized in 2012. One step in the right directi...

What's Your Daily Offering?

Chip Conley | Posted 02.28.2012 | Healthy Living
Chip Conley

Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals including when we eat our meals, how we shower or groom or how we approach our daily descent into the digital world of email communication.

A Journal Is a Journal Is a Journal

Summer Pierre | Posted 10.11.2012 | HuffPost Home
Summer Pierre

I have kept an ongoing journal for almost 20 years. That's just the ongoing version. If you count the earlier sporadic versions of journals, it's been almost 30.

Want a Better Body Image? Write a New Story

Susan Liddy, M.A., PCC, CPCC | Posted 01.30.2012 | Healthy Living
Susan Liddy, M.A., PCC, CPCC

Did you know that when you respond emotionally and behaviorally the same way, over and over again to the same situations, that your brain is actually wired to automatically create those responses -- good or bad?

Boomer Spiritual Musings

Diana M. Raab | Posted 01.21.2012 | Fifty
Diana M. Raab

Over the years I have oscillated back and forth on a spiritual continuum. After much contemplation I have come to the conclusion that I am spiritual person, but not religious.

Three Ways to Keep Loving Your Father, No Matter What

Deborah King | Posted 08.14.2011 | Women
Deborah King

My father adored me. My mother was cold and cruel, so it was his love that warmed my heart. I looked up to this powerful man, but his love contained dark, twisted corners.