"Naked" Writing for Anxiety Relief
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Resilience and Prayer
"When we can be completely authentic, resilience is the flow of strength that comes to us from everything that is not us."
15 Inner Child Journaling Prompts to Spark Healing
Need help caring for yourself? You might benefit from inner child journaling.
Journaling Prompts to Unravel the Mother Knot
Utilize these 30 potent writing prompts to help heal complicated relationships with the mothers in your life.
The Spiritual Benefits of Journaling
Feel relaxed and connected after spending time writing down your thoughts and feelings? You have unknowingly tapped into the spiritual benefits of journaling.
How Awe Narratives Can Transform Your Life
Want to be more loving and caring, with better health and enhanced wellbeing? Try awe narratives.
Journaling Out Loud
Distracted by worrying, anxious, comparing thoughts? Give voice to them. Then give voice to a response to them.
3 Writing Practices to Untangle and Illuminate Your Life
Try writing new or resequenced versions of past events. Doing so can untangle sticky patterns and open your life to joy.
5 Journaling Prompts for the New Moon
Prompts for the new moon guide you to explore desires, darkness, solitude, and the beginning of a new cycle.
I Can but Will I
“Acting on what we know to be true is the sinew that holds humanity together.”
5 Journaling Prompts & Affirmations for Chronic Pain
Managing chronic pain takes a multi-pronged approach. Affirmations and journaling prompts for chronic pain can help.
Museum Meditation: 6 Ways to Turn Your Visit Into a Spiritual Experience
A museum meditation is about slow looking. And purposefully missing things.
Art Journaling for Relaxation and Release
Reduce anxiety and express yourself with 3 DIY art journaling prompts.
4 Journaling Prompts for Anxiety
Journaling prompts for anxiety help you observe and process what’s happening without assigning emotion to it, which in turn prevents a buildup of anxiety.
Podcast: Morgan Harper Nichols, Peace Is a Practice
Mixed-media artist, musician, and autism advocate Morgan Harper Nichols explores naming your fears and struggles, the artistic process, and navigating life and art with autism.
The Spiritual Practice of Writing
Ideas for how to get started journaling and why it’s such a powerful tool.
7 Writing Projects to Spark Your Sensual Life
Writing about love, romance, and sensuality can help magnetize the love life you desire.
Unearthing Ecstatic Memories
Ecstatic memories are “radioactive jewels buried within us, emitting energy across the years of our life.”
Spiritual Wills & Legacy Projects
A legacy project or spiritual will allows you to pass on your values to loved ones and record what you prized in life. There’s value in the process as well as the outcome.
What Does It Mean to Relax?
Feeling stuck in unhealthy patterns? You can find deeper rest and relaxation, ease anxiety, and recover from trauma through yoga Nidra practice.
Journaling Animalia
Studies suggest animals engage in their own kind of spiritual practices. Discover animal-inspired prayer through a sacred writing practice.
Writing and Healing: A Journaling Guide
Create a link between writing and healing. Journaling allows you to ask questions for self-inquiry and growth. “Writing creates a physical release. It benefits wellbeing, lowers blood pressure, improves sleep, decreases doctor’s visits, boosts memory, and increases self-awareness.”
6 Practices for Building Resilience
Building resilience does not require superhuman feats. Begin today with these accessible, science-backed strategies.
Unpacking Our Lives to Make Room for Happiness
With the new year almost upon us, it's time to start setting goals—but this year, let's do it differently.
Celebrating the Failure of My Spiritual Journal
Keeping a spiritual journal may seem like a good way to record your spiritual progress. But what if the pages stay blank?
Writing Yourself Back to Yourself
Meera Lee Patel’s latest journal, Create Your Own Calm, is publishing as anxiety levels across the world are rising dramatically. Patel shared her creative process and personal journaling practice with S&H.
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Burnout to Balance
Reiki master Kelsey J. Patel shares how journaling can help you release the root causes of burnout.
Listening in the Labyrinth
Walking a labyrinth can allow entry to the unknown if we are willing to listen.
Book Review: Journaling Power. How to Create the Happy, Healthy Life You Want to Live
Individuals seeking a therapeutic and transformative method for healing and growth should look no further than the very tool that lies at their own fingertips: writing their way to…Tags:
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Learning How to Love Your Body
Journaling can transform not only my physical health, but also emotional and spiritual health.
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Book Review: The Sharing Journal
Engaging in authentic, open, honest dialogue while in a committed relationship might not be a common occurrence. While partners may speak to each other daily, discussions that comm…Tags:
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3 Journals for Finding Your Way in a Complex World
These journals are interactive and aim to unlock the hidden places inside of us.
Keeping a Soul Print Journal
A unique approach to capturing special moments in your life.
Practicing Self-Appreciation through Gratitude Journaling
How you talk to and treat yourself are the biggest contributors to establishing how you truly feel.
Creative Moon: Writing Prompts for the Moon Cycles
Try this free writing journaling practice coinciding with the moon phases.
Finding the Inspiration to Awaken Your Zest
Try this self-assessment to tap into what makes you feel fully alive.
Toolbox: Writing Well
Create sacred space for crafting your own personal journaling practice with these finds from S&H.
End of Year Ritual: 7 Questions to Ask Yourself
A simple and effective end of year ritual is to carve out a little time for yourself to meditate and journal.
Journaling That Taps Into Your Own Wisdom
An invitation to mine the depths of your own truth.
5 Questions for Cheryl Richardson
Best-selling author Cheryl Richardson delves into midlife challenges and experiments with journal writing in her long-awaited return, Waking Up in Winter: In Search of What Really …
3 Journals that Will Change the Way You See Your Life
A new wave of journals can help you harness the healing power of writing down your innermost thoughts and feelings.
Write These 3 Letters to Heal Your Heart
Often considered a forgotten art, the act of letter writing can be transformative and healing—even without sending it.
Write Your Way Healthy
A new study from the University of Arizona, Tucson showed that for people undergoing a divorce, a specific form of writing helped their bodies better respond to cardiovascular stre…Tags:
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Our Walk in the World: Making Our Way
When we find each other stranded, the exercise of compassion demands that we interrupt our lives to return each other to our own true nature
Journal Prompts for a New Year
Spend 30 minutes reflecting on last year and preparing for the new year with the following journaling prompts.
8 Writing Prompts Inspired by Your Favorite Books
These questions culled from books can inspire spiritual growth, self-awareness, and courage to take life by the horns.
My Heart Is…
Discover what’s in your heart, rather than what’s in your head.
Letter to the Inner Child
Try this writing practice of forgiveness: Visualize the person you felt hurt by as an 8 year old.
Silent Night: Journaling Under the Moon
As another year comes to a close and we look forward to new beginnings, this is the perfect time to reflect on what is working in our lives and what is not.
Managing Fear in Times of Uncertainty
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7 Different Ways to Journal to Help You Create, Reflect, and Explore
There are many different ways we can approach journaling. Here are seven suggestions to try.
My Year in White
A sociology professor records her experiences.
Creating Your Dharma Vision Through Contemplation
Adapted excerpt from Awake at the Bedside
Deep Listening
Dr. Neha Sangwan and writer and coach Jackee Holder say deep listening is the path to wellness
Determine What’s Behind Your Beliefs
Adapted from How To Heal Yourself When No One Else Can
The Mindful Home: A Contemplation Exercise
What qualities would you like it to bring out in you or to communicate to yourself and all those who enter your home?
Blackout Poetry: Creation Through Reduction
Can’t bear to put pen to paper? Start with a page that’s full of words instead of one that’s devoid of them.
Writing to Connect to your Body
A major aspect of my practice has always been about coming home to my body. We live in a culture that doesn’t always honor the body; we tend instead to objectify it as this thing t…
Journaling to Rediscover Hidden Interests
Try this journaling exercise to rediscover something you used to be passionate about as a child.
Journaling With Your Non-Dominant Hand
Journaling with your non-dominant hand (and answering with the other) is about tapping into your inner child, inner teen, and inner wisdom.
What’s on Your List?
Do the items on your list reflect your true self?
Shared Journaling
Instead of keeping a private journal, a shared journal can be a way to use writing to connect or deepen a relationship.
Mental Smog? Grab a Journal and Write
“Know thyself”—PlatoGreat words of wisdom, applicable to practicing yogis and non-yogis alike. Yoga is primarily about self-study (Svadhyaya). We pay attention to who we are at any…Tags:
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Mind Reading Made Simple
Writing a journal allows you to dive into your internal experiences and find your true center.
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How to Catch a Thought: 3 Tools for Mindfulness
“Your task is not to seek for love, but to seek and find the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” —RumiAs humans, we are creatures of habit. We not only stick …Tags:
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30 Spiritual Journaling Prompts for Self-Discovery
Spiritual journaling prompts are questions and ideas to explore spirituality and get to know yourself better.
Private Prayers: Flannery O'Connor's Faith Journal
Years before her novels and short stories earned her recognition as one of midcentury America’s greatest writers, Flannery O’Connor poured her faith—and doubts—into one slim notebo…
Avoiding Spiritual Bypass Syndrome
When I first started “coming out” as a spiritual guy, so to speak, I was living in sunny San Diego, California. The West Coast seemed to be the birthplace of so much personal growt…
Your Body is Talking. Are You Listening?
Injuries often happen in the silliest ways. We are intelligent adults; we look both ways before crossing the street, we don't run with scissors or swallow toothpaste. But we badly …
3 Essential Practices for Gratitude
Experience more fullness of heart with these exercises embracing gratitude as a spiritual practice.
