Refresh with Dawn Herring: #JournalChat Live Facebook Event with Special Guests, Naomi Arnold, Vicki Taylor and Rafraz Davis; Your Journaling: Life Intentions (Align Yourself) (Day One)

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Welcome to the Second part of our ‪#‎JournalChat‬ Live Double Feature Event with our journaing panel of special guests, Vicki M. Taylor, Naomi Arnold and Rafranz Davis!

Today we will feature Vicki's journaling resource, Benefits of Journaling, with our focus on Aligning Ourselves with our journaling practice to get this New Year off to a great start.

WRITECOVERY, Inc.: Benefits of Journaling

A self-guided therapeutic process developed to support people recovering from, or living through a range of tough personal challenges.

WRITECOVERY.BLOGSPOT.COM|BY VICKI M. TAYLOR

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Naomi Arnold Thank you for having us Dawn. I had so much fun on the Twitter chat, and am looking forward to our discussion this morning (in Australia). Vicki, I am just re-reading your article now - it is excellent! I especially love the 'Strengthening Relationships' benefit.

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Dawn Herring Naomi, welcome as our special guest; it's great to have you with us on our Facebook Event! (Good morning!) So glad you enjoyed Sunday's Session; so did I!

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Vicki M. Taylor Thanks. I enjoyed writing it.

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Vicki M. Taylor It's most important about learning about ourselves.

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Dawn Herring The importance of learning about ourselves cannot be overstated, Vicki, That's one reason why I loved your piece so much.

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Edita Pariente This is excellent! Great being a part here. I am in Belize City in Central America.

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Vicki M. Taylor I stated it in the beginning. People who write about important personal experiences see a reduction in doctor visits
Improved immune system functioning
Better grades in school
Faster hiring in new job
Lowered stress hormones
Decreased blood pressure
Improved problem solving
Reduced symptoms from chronic illnesses

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Dawn Herring It is amazing to me, Vicki, how beneficial journaling is to our bodies! It truly packs a delightful punch--the good kind!!

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Dawn Herring Welcome to Edita Pariente; great to have you join us, Edita!

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Vicki M. Taylor The mind/body/soul connection has been as universal life itself. They all live and feed each other

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Naomi Arnold Yes Vicki, and journaling is a great way to be more in tune with and connected to mind/body/soul isn't it

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Vicki M. Taylor Definitely, Naomi

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Vicki M. Taylor "Know Thyself" comes from Socrates and writing in your journal gets to the real you

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Sue Ekins Much enjoyed this insightful post. With all the benefits of journaling, I wonder why more people don't do it!

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Dawn Herring Welcome back, Sue!! And yes, I ask the same questions, why not? That's why I do #JournalChat to get the word out! (Not to mention all the folks I talk to in person! ;))

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Vicki M. Taylor It takes discipline.

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Vicki M. Taylor Not everyone is that dedicated

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Dawn Herring It does, Vicki. I always encourage folks to find a topic they love and run with it; makes it more apt to stay regular.

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Edita Pariente Have anyone heard of Natalie Goldberg? I was able to study writing practice with her and Julia Cameron and eventually found the love for journaling through the practice. It helped me through grieving and loss and I want to be able to share that with others that also need healing. There is a facebook page that I would like to share with you to connect on this wonderful journey. please post any ideas that can help along the way.https://www.facebook.com/SoulWritersBelize

Soul Writers Belize: Promoting Healing through Journaling

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Naomi Arnold Oh Dawn, I love that your dedicated to getting the word out. Journaling is a big tool that I use in my coaching practice. Many of my clients have never used it, and experience major benefits once they do. Suddenly their problems become less relevant, or they 'find' a new way of approaching them.

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Sue Ekins But even if you don't journal everyday, it can have benefits. I admit to being pretty sporadic but if I miss too many days, I find I've got TONS to say to myself!

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Dawn Herring Edita thanks for sharing the link; yes I'm familiar with Natalie Goldberg. I have several of her books, Naomi, I'm thrilled to hear of the positive experience your clients have with journaling. And yes, Sue you don't have to write every day, whatever works for you. I love the tons word!

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Carter Matthews Vicki M. Taylor is correct.. it is like about that "Socratic method" form of journaling where you have to be attuned to certain questions or something because it can help you explore even more deeper things to you while journaling or something like that..

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Dawn Herring Exploring even deeper, great word, Carter.

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Carter Matthews Sue Ekins I can really relate to having a ton to say after a few days of not writing/journaling. Lol...

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Vicki M. Taylor I'm not a journal every day because some said you had to journal every day. Eventually you'd be reading about my color of socks and the various moods I was in from one hour to the next. No. I journal emotion and feeling and events.

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Edita Pariente When I don't journal for some time. I miss it so much. Its like a whole part of me is disconnected. Almost like I lost myself

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Vicki M. Taylor I know what you mean. My journal goes everywhere with me.

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Naomi Arnold I too go with the flow with journaling, not always every day, but more so when it's calling me, or when I start to not feel aligned to myself and my values. I do find that when I do it more often though, I do feel much more aligned and in tune with my mind/body/soul.

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Vicki M. Taylor I change rooms and the journal goes with me. My husband and I have a trusting relationship. My journal can be anywhere and he won't touch it.

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Sarah Forrest I'm working on doing just that with my new found journaling freedom with poetry!

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Dawn Herring I do journal, sometimes three times a day depending; always am and pm. I do it because I love it, more all the time. I do a doodle a day each evening. which is so relaxing and fun. Edita, I know I would feel disconnected if I didn't journal regularly. And now, Vicki, I take it with me when I go out too. Never used to do that til last year.

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Edita Pariente Dawn Herring I also do Art journaling. Because I love painting and doodling and it refreshes me so much. When I am stressed I can easily destress by painting or journaling.

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Naomi Arnold I also carry mine with me at all times - you never know when the urge to journal might hit!

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Naomi Arnold Oh I love this Edita. Artistic types like yourself are really inspiring me at the moment - I am feeling really pulled toward my creative side and to expressing this in my journal - and this is partly inspired by Dawnand the amazing people in this group and what I've seen them do in their beautiful journals.

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Dawn Herring Welcome to #JournalChat Live, Sarah! glad you have a form of journaling that you take with you.

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Dawn Herring That is so delightful, Naomi. Great to know that my and others visual journaling is inspiring you.

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Naomi Arnold Ohhhhhh Sarah, now that's something I'd love to try myself. Journaling freedom with poetry. Just beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

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Edita Pariente Yes there is something unique about journaling with images and paint and color and mixed media. It is an awesome freeing experience and to add poetry. This is a beautiful freeing world when you can journal your troubles away! It is truly the path to happiness when used as a tool for that!

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Dawn Herring I love that word, Freeing, Edita. and it's so true!

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Vicki M. Taylor I have various journals going at once. Writing. Visual, collage,paint, mess, interpretation, you name it

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Edita Pariente perhaps Vicki M. Taylor you can share some images with us at some point.

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Naomi Arnold Edita, I LOVE this idea. If people are willing to share, it'd be wonderful to have a thread with some images

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Dawn Herring Vicki, I love what you say about unraveling your life and keeping it more simple, less complicated and how journaling can help us do that. Great way to align!

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Edita Pariente yes I am willing to share some of the stuff I've done. I'm not the best artist but that's the great thing about journaling. Its not for an award or any approval. It is to get out what we feel inside!

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Vicki M. Taylor I will search for images

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Naomi Arnold Absolutely Edita, I love this - and it's something many people forget (including myself in the past). It's not about whether you're a good or bad artist (who is the judge of that anyway!?) - it's about self-expression. This is partly why I've been more inspired by this of late - it opens up a whole other element of you doesn't it! It's like you're peering into a little corner in your heart or soul that you haven't quiet connected with yet.

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Dawn Herring And when you connect with it onto the page, it teaches you things about yourself you may not have been aware of before. It's powerful, visual journaling. I've been at it for 5 years now.

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Naomi Arnold I had planned to start visual journaling this year, and you have all made me even more excited about it. I think I'll buy a journal especially for that purpose Big thanks to you all.

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Dawn Herring Let us know how it goes if you'd like, Naomi!

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Naomi Arnold Will do, Dawn

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Sarah Forrest Thank you for welcoming me

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Sarah Forrest And Naomi, glad I inspired you!! I inspire myself with what I write daily

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To Jumpstart our journaling discussion and get this journaling party started, I've got some discussion questions to ponder and folks are welcome to answer in the comments below.

Since Vicki talks a lot about the inner workings of journaling and how we can get to know ourselves better through it, here are some questions to help us move forward with Aligning with Ourselves:

How can we go deeper in knowing Who We Are through our journaling practice? What Challenges do we sometimes face in the process? How can we stay aligned with Who We Are more easily through journaling?

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