Letter from the instructor
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It might be going a little too far to say that
journaling has saved my life—but it has been a primary support. It has been
there during my worst moments and my best moments, when I was falling apart,
and when brilliance and divinity were coming through. It is a mirror that both
shows me where I am and holds my history, showing me where I’ve been.
I’ve also used my journal as I would use a therapist, actually “giving myself a
session” on paper. I didn’t use it in place of therapy so much as to extend it,
my therapist-on-paper being there when my therapist-in-flesh couldn’t be. (This
also saved me a lot of money!) In a similar way, the journal has been a place
where the voice of guidance shows up. It is a place of meeting. Guidance, the
voice of my inner child, my needs and fears, my hopes and dreams—all of these
show up when I show up. Journaling is thus a very intimate thing, one of the
most intimate I know.
Journaling is also part of my creative life. It is where I work out new ideas
and look at things I am going through, which later become reflective essays or
passages in a book. One of my books, a spiritual memoir, came almost entirely
out of my journals.
My deepest passion is exploring the inner life. My work as a psychotherapist,
teacher, and explorer of spiritual realms has all been about going deeper into
the inner life.
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