
Creative Journal Writing
A guided journey of self-expression, personal growth, and supportive reflection
Stephanie Dowrick(Author)
Allen & Unwin (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 7. January 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-76147-202-2 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the COVR Award (USA) Best Self-Help Book of the Year
'This gift of a book unlocked parts of me I didn't know existed' Donna M Cameron
'I have yearned for this insight and this how-to. It's changing everything.' Susana Lei'ataua
'Nourishment for the soul. Stephanie Dowrick is a marvellous writing mentor...these lessons helped unlock my writing life' Juliette O'Brien OAM
Journal writing is an unrivalled way to understand and appreciate your 'one precious life'.
Dr Stephanie Dowrick is an award-winning writer with a unique breadth of psychological insight and creative writing experience. Here she takes journal writing to a new level, sharing the gifts creative journal writing invariably gives:
Clarity, trust and self-understanding
A depth of self-encouragement impossible to achieve another way
Access to both sides of your brain for problem solving
Inner acceptance and calm
Creativity across your whole life
Understanding what motivates and drives you
Sharper focus
A chance to heal at your own pace
Through immediately rewarding prompts, Creative Journal Writing works for journal writers of all kinds and stages. As journal writer Oprah Winfrey says, 'Keeping a journal will absolutely change your life in ways you've never imagined.'
'This gift of a book unlocked parts of me I didn't know existed' Donna M Cameron
'I have yearned for this insight and this how-to. It's changing everything.' Susana Lei'ataua
'Nourishment for the soul. Stephanie Dowrick is a marvellous writing mentor...these lessons helped unlock my writing life' Juliette O'Brien OAM
Journal writing is an unrivalled way to understand and appreciate your 'one precious life'.
Dr Stephanie Dowrick is an award-winning writer with a unique breadth of psychological insight and creative writing experience. Here she takes journal writing to a new level, sharing the gifts creative journal writing invariably gives:
Clarity, trust and self-understanding
A depth of self-encouragement impossible to achieve another way
Access to both sides of your brain for problem solving
Inner acceptance and calm
Creativity across your whole life
Understanding what motivates and drives you
Sharper focus
A chance to heal at your own pace
Through immediately rewarding prompts, Creative Journal Writing works for journal writers of all kinds and stages. As journal writer Oprah Winfrey says, 'Keeping a journal will absolutely change your life in ways you've never imagined.'
Reviews / Votes
[Stephanie Dowrick] speaks to a wide readership with intimacy, clarity and directness * The Australian *More details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
St Leonards
Australia
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 194 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
210 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-76147-202-2 (9781761472022)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Stephanie Dowrick, PhD, is Australasia's best-known personal development writer. She has supported many thousands of people as a psychotherapist, public speaker, author. Her much-loved bestsellers include Your name is not Anxious, Intimacy and Solitude, Seeking the Sacred, Choosing Happiness, The Universal Heart, and Forgiveness and Other Acts of Love. Her contributions to media and social media include a decade as 'Inner Life' columnist for Good Weekend magazine. She has won major awards in the United States for her books, and her work is widely translated.
Content
Preface
Part 1: Getting started
Part 2: Free to be creative
Part 3: Writing the facts
Part 4: Your life in your journal
Part 5: Putting it all together
Index of exercises
Part 1: Getting started
Part 2: Free to be creative
Part 3: Writing the facts
Part 4: Your life in your journal
Part 5: Putting it all together
Index of exercises