{"id":18306,"date":"2021-09-14T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/?p=18306"},"modified":"2024-09-30T08:56:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:56:18","slug":"journaling-writing-through-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/2021\/09\/journaling-writing-through-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Journaling: Writing Through Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This summer I worked through the prompts in my upcoming book, The Joy of Writing Journal<\/em>. Many times it flowed and sometimes I met internal resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You see, occasionally, I made my list as per the instructions (the ones I wrote for my readers!) in the exercise but then I felt resistance or even grouchy just looking at my list. “Boring,” I told myself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I skipped it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lo and behold, a day or two later, I returned to the prompt itself and something on my list said, “Me. Pick me.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mind you, I still didn’t feel that inspired. But I acquiesced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I try it. I write through my now-only-slightly-softened resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the next thing I know my pen moves with ease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journaling is about Discovery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Maybe the beginning’s a little ho hum, but somewhere in the middle I discover something new about my journey, in this case, a trip I took to Japan (Toyama, Kyoto, Nara and Tokyo) with two of my business school classmates in the summer of 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words flow from somewhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thirty three years later, I see the experience differently, in ways that weave into and out of my life and other specific experiences where I felt similarly dislodged from my self image, how I see, experience and “know” myself. I experience new insights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll share the details about what I wrote when we journey together through the 30 days of journaling in October. But what I want to share with you now is the experience of breaking through resistance–and getting at something profound within us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing Through Resistance to Access Your Truth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is what I love about journaling: in some ways, it’s the best of our writing. Not because it’s polished or clever or perfect, but because\u2014when we journal, when we give ourselves time, space and freedom to dig a little deeper than we might otherwise, when we are not writing to please an audience but to explore\u2014in that process we often stumble upon Truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Markus Winkler<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Not “Truth” in any metaphysical or religious sense of the word, but Truth, as in the deeper things we know underneath our skin, knowings we may for a time hide, even from ourselves. Knowings which free us up in unexpected ways. And accessing such Truths is a powerful practice both for us as writers and as human beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A request, a favor, a shameless plug: I am asking everyone to purchase The Joy of Writing Journal<\/em> on the same day 9\/22 so we can have the greatest impact on Amazon. Will you mark your calendar to buy your copy that day? Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This summer I worked through the prompts in my upcoming book, The Joy of Writing Journal. Many times it flowed and sometimes I met internal resistance. You see, occasionally, I made my list as per the instructions (the ones I wrote for my readers!) in the exercise but then I felt resistance or even grouchy…  Read more<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,8885],"tags":[8339,148,8890,1222,8859],"class_list":{"0":"post-18306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-creativity","8":"category-journaling","9":"tag-creative-resistance","10":"tag-creativity-2","11":"tag-how-to-start-journaling","12":"tag-journaling","13":"tag-writing-resistance","14":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278770,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306\/revisions\/278770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}