Journaling for Joy: Writing Your Way to Personal Growth and Freedom [Paperback]

Joyce Chapman (Author), Chapman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1991

Journaling for Joy enables you to take a close look at who you are and what you want. In an original approach to journaling, Joyce Chapman guides you to write from your heart and soul with the aim of arriving at joy - the joy that comes from knowing yourself ad an intimate friend and living the life you have created out of conscious choice.

The innovative techniques in Journaling for Joy will show you how to:

* Capture the meaning and joy in your daily life.
* Discover your patterns and ways to change them.
* Understand your relationships with others.
* Access the wisdom and creativity of your imagination.
* Awaken the writer's voice within you.
* Actualize your dreams and visions.

Journaling for Joy is filled with over 200 dynamic journaling techniques for releasing anger, pain, depression, confusion, tension and stress.

Product Details

• Paperback: 206 pages
• Publisher: Newcastle Publishing Company; 1st edition (September 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878771638
• ISBN-13: 978-0878771639
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,452,126 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Joyful Read, February 19, 2000

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"carolannem" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Journaling for Joy: Writing Your Way to Personal Growth and Freedom (Paperback)

The aim of this book is to provide a method of writing with which you bring yourself to a point where you find joy in getting to know yourself. The chapters discuss the use of various techniques - lists, dialogues,letters, etc. to use in your journal writing, and includes numerous examples of each. In my opinion, it's definitely worth a read.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical advice for inner discovery, March 25, 2001

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Jj Pieterse "Passion, Romance and Philosophy" (Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Journaling for Joy: Writing Your Way to Personal Growth and Freedom (Paperback)

This book is to be read by everybody that enjoys journalling or that might be interested in journalling. Even readers without an interest in journalling will find the practical ideas of the book of great value in creating immediate joyful experiences. The book contains such a richness of ideas that even old journalers will find it to enrich their journalling.

The practical advice in the book enables one to put everything immediately into practice and experience the results. Concepts are clearly supported by actual and well chosen examples.

The underlying theme of joy leads the reader to understand the most basic concepts of spirituality. If the reader dare to go beond reading and also act on it he/she will discover ways to listen to their own guidance and to follow their hearts.

Being a rich source for journalling creativity this is a book that the reader will keep on referencing as his/her expressions of themselves grows and develops.

19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Journaling Rules!, August 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Journaling for Joy: The Workbook; Writing Your Way to Personal Growth and Freedom: Writing Your Way to Personal Growth and Freedom (Paperback)

The author invites you to use this workbook to take a journey into the self to the point where joy emerges. The exercises help you move through whatever it is that is causing you pain to the other side where joy resides. In you!