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joan
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 Posted - 10/01/2010 : 08:24:18
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| i HAVE BEEN JOURNALLING BUT THE SAME ISSUES KEEP COMING UP..I AM STUCK THANKS JOAN |
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RageSootheRatio
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Posted - 10/01/2010 : 09:09:50
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There is "journalling" and journalling. It kind of makes me dismayed that there is not more information about the RISKS of ineffective journalling.
the best form of journalling I know is the "Pathway" approach, which I believe is derived from John Gray (yes of the Men are from Mars Women are from Venus series), which has you FAN out your feelings, and move to resolution / acceptance / healing, to prevent these kind of "stuck" experiences. At least, they work over time. Some issues are very deep and may never heal, or may take many flows of feelings over a lot of time, to resolve. I believe Gray's book, "What You Feel, You Can Heal: A Guide for Enriching Relationships" gives the specifics of how to do that type of journalling, and Laurel Mellin's book The Pathway has some good examples too, I think.
As an aside, the book, the Way of the Journal states that in a recent study, 88% of clients with PTSD said they wrote in a journal regularly or intermittently, YET 96% FELT FEARFUL, OVERWHELMED, INSECURE, INTIMIDATED, TRAUMATIZED ASHAMED OR BORED WITH THEIR JOURNALS! ONLY 4% said they did not experience obstacles, blocks or barriers to satisfying journalkeeping. (I like this book for its emphasis on SAFETY, pacing, containment.)
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forestfortrees
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Posted - 10/08/2010 : 14:01:29
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Hi Joan,
You may wish to check out the wiki's How do I journal? page. It's chock full of techniques, but I do agree that sometimes it just takes time.
@RageSootheRatio, thanks for the link to "The Way of the Journal." I just looked it up on Google and it looks great, so I ordered a used copy off Amazon. Most of the other sources I've seen don't talk much about safety, pacing and containment, but I think that we can never be too careful, so will add a section about it to the How do I journal? page. If you'd like to contribute a review of John Gray's Pathway approach, I think it would make a great addition to the journaling section of the wiki. Just email it to "forest for trees @ ymail. com" (remove the extra spaces that I put in so that spammer won't get my email address). I can guarantee that it would be see by and help many people.
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forestfortrees
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Posted - 10/25/2010 : 09:03:05
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Hiya,
I wanted to let you know that I read The Way of the Journal, and thought it was a great book. I really liked the idea of building up to free writing. Anyways, I went ahead and created a book page about it on the TMSWiki at http://tmswiki.wetpaint.com/page/The+Way+of+the+Journal . I was thinking that it would be great if someone could write a brief review of the book, and post it on the wiki, that way when people visit the page they will be able to read someone’s opinion of the book, which I think helps people in deciding which books to check out. Anyways thanks for letting me know about the book. I learned a lot from it.
Forest
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