Release Your Resistance

Unlock your creativity through journaling. Explore your creativity without limits. Connect with thoughts and emotions. Transform through self-discovery.

Today Zayne Khan is back to share how his journaling practice has developed and evolved, the benefits he gets from journaling and how we can unlock our creativity through journaling!

• Creativity can be learned and practiced and developed.

• You can journal even when you don't feel inspired or motivated.

• Creativity can be in so many different areas. You can be a creative artist or creative problem solver or both and something completely different

• Use journaling to recognize, get curious about and develop your creativity!

Balancing Emotional Well-Being Through Journaling

In this episode:

• Hear about the power of journaling for balancing your emotional well-being

• Consider the benefits of emotional well-being, including a better outlook and reduced depression

• Discover the importance of balancing emotions for a more satisfying life.

• Think about the nature vs. nurture debate regarding emotional well-being

As you listen:

• Hear about my dilemma of creating a "perfect" life and its challenges

• Choose a side in the debate on whether emotional well-being is a genetic predisposition or learned behavior

• Get new journaling prompts for enhancing emotional well-being

Resources Mentioned:

Build resilience through journaling. Overcome setbacks, boost mental strength with practical tips. Journal your way to a resilient mindset.

In today's episode about building resilience through journaling, explore the concept of resilience, understand its possible impact on your daily life, and discover practical journaling techniques for building mental strength.

Learn how resilience affects your energy, mood, and posture. Discover how journaling can help in overcoming setbacks and gaining a proactive mindset.

Here's why you want to listen:

- Understand resistance and resilience and their impacts on your energy, mood, and outlook

- Explore a bouncing back metaphor and how humans are not like bouncing balls

- Learn about threats to resilience like denial, trying to control, and wishful thinking

- Hear about the proactive role of journaling in building resilience

- Get some resilience prompts and practical tips for facing obstacles

And so much more!

Resources mentioned

Today we're talking about emotional allowing through journaling.

In This Episode:

💔Explore the concept of emotional allowing through journaling

💔Hear about the physical and mental effects of not allowing emotions

💔Get some practical tips on using journaling as an emotion regulation strategy

💔Learn about recognizing and addressing emotional bypassing

Why Listen:

🤷‍♀️Discover how journaling can be a transformative tool to embrace, process, and understand your emotions.

🤷‍♀️Learn about the impact of emotional repression and how journaling serves as a valuable outlet for emotional expression and regulation.

🤷‍♀️Get insights into recognizing and avoiding emotional bypassing, developing a more authentic connection with your emotions.

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Sheridan recently decided to get started with journaling.

So I invited her (back) on to the podcast to tell us all about how her new journaling routine is going

In this episode, Sheridan shares

💖 The benefits she wants to get from journaling (aka the reason she decided to start journaling)

💖 The real-life resistant thoughts she had about journaling and how 2 conversations with journalers helped her to drop the "should" and just start

💖 How perfectionism tried to sneak in to Sheridan's journaling practice

💖 The specific, exact ways she is overcoming resistance and embracing imperfection in her own consistent journaling

The 2 of us also had so much fun talking about

👯‍♀️ Our strongly held beliefs about the importance of "the right pen" for journaling

👯‍♀️ Our theories on why we it might not be "the pen's fault" but what we're thinking as we're journaling

👯‍♀️ Why and how to use bullet points when you're pressed for time or have a lot to remember to write about

👯‍♀️ What you can tell yourself if you worry someone might read your journal

👯‍♀️ The awkwardness in journaling and re-reading journal entries

👯‍♀️ What we imagine it would be like to hear our journals read outloud

I'm so thankful Sheridan took time to talk with me about getting started with journaling. Our beautiful conversation is all about embracing authenticity, overcoming resistance, and finding joy in documenting life's journey.