I’m taking a “Creative Journaling” course through Wellspring Calgary. The facilitator prompts you in short writing sessions on a topic. Perfect grammar and writing ability are not prerequisites for this. Then we move on to arty stuff which can be as simple or as complex as you want it. The facilitator is a professional artist that donates her time to Wellspring and has all sorts of neat little tricks that can transform something hohum into more dramatic. The “tricks” are simple and easy to learn no matter what art level you are. I have found that a lot of pent up stuff has come out in the last couple of weeks but in a far more constructive way. I “arted” for over an hour last night as I wasn’t very tired and then after I finished I felt such a release and slept solid for 8 hours. Creative journaling offers a way of letting out and you can disguise what you wrote so if anyone looks at your book they won’t figure it out. I wished that I’d known about this years ago. I think I would have filled a library with journals. LOL!
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