Inside Out

The Benefits of a Grief Journal When we’re grieving, we must have some form of support—people we trust, that we can lean on and talk to. But although an emotional support is important, some of the most difficult parts of the grieving process are best dealt with in private. This is why it’s healthy to talk about the loss—every facet...

The Effects of Grief on Our Health Reasons to Keep a Grief Journal during the Grieving Process Grief affects both our physical and psychological health. We grieve over different forms of loss, but the loss of a loved one (or in some cases a beloved pet who is as much family to us as our significant other, kids, or parents...

And Why a Journal Is a Handy Tool for Mapping Your Way to Inspired Answers How we solve a problem says something about how well we recognize our brain’s capacity for creativity, and whether we are smart enough to harness it. A problem, wise men and women say, can be an opportunity, a blessing in disguise, something you didn’t know...

And Why Journaling Is a Great Way to Dig Down Deep to Your Creative Roots and Soar to Great Heights Low-technology pen and paper offers a different kind of freedom, and a different kind of space. And we’d be wise to embrace them. When was the last time we embarked on something truly inspired that we started from scratch and saw...

How Writing by Hand Improves Your Mood and Outlook And Why Journaling about Your Thoughts and Feelings Helps You Avoid Anxiety and Depression Anxiety and depression feed on chaos. Especially if chaos is in the mind. How many of us harried souls with thousand-yard-stares ever find time within the day to do something that can vaguely be described as meditative...

Why it’s healthy to make handwritten journals, diaries, notes, and letters a part of your digital existence. As technology gets more sophisticated, it will keep gifting us with options for note taking and writing. But against this backdrop of gadgets and apps galore, more and more researchers are reporting on the benefits of ditching the keyboard and writing by hand...

And Why Journaling with Pen and Paper Is One Great Option to Start Priming Your Brain for Optimum Learning Your hands and your brain have always been working together to bolster your retention and memory to make you a better learner. Learning should be anything but a drag. Personal and professional growth hinge on what you know and the depth of...

And Why Journaling with Pen and Paper Frees Up the Information Superhighway in Your Head The aging brain could use a serious boost as the digital age hurtles along. And as it turns out, so does the increasingly forgetful young brain. If forgetting is for the old, then aren’t we aging rather too fast? Perhaps we have become so dependent...

Journaling To Reveal Your Strengths Our objective in these posts is to give examples of prompts to get you started and to inspire you to create your own original prompts and hopefully you will share your prompts with us and others by posting them here on journalz.com. However, there are some highly evolved personality tests which are available to reveal...

Journaling To Craft Skillful Responses In our article on Journaling For Self-Awareness we focused on keeping our side of the street clean via an honest self-assessment and expressing gratitude to right-size ourselves and avoid the seeming endless cycle of always “wanting”. The other value of daily reflection is looking outside ourselves at the world around us. Webster’s defines Self′-actualiza′tion n...