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Recently I was teaching a creative journaling class, and for some of the participants, writing took them to a place where they did not want to go. Writing can bring up feelings of anger, sadness, hurt that we thought we had dealt with or that we just donÙt want to go there. Journaling provides a place where it is okay to be who you are, where you are, in this moment. No one is judging you.
When difficult events happen in our lives, it is easy to stuff our emotions down, under whatever we can find, work, that list of things to do, or extraneous attachments that dull our emotions. Or we can wallow, stuck in this one space of emotion.
Writing prompts are just that, prompts. Writing has a way of taking us to those places where we donÙt want to go, that we have worked so hard to cover up or to get through to move on. We find patterns, cycles, places in our lives where we are stuck. Writing them gives them a voice and a place, so that we may begin to move beyond them.
Reading what we write allowed also brings us into awareness about that is underneath, where we are stuck.
Some people burn what they write, to send it back to God, letting go of the words and emotions. Others find they have more work to do and talk with friends, family and mentors.
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