The definitive guide to keeping a journal for personal growth: a perennial favourite fully updated.
Winner of the COVR Award (USA) Best Self-Help Book of the Year
'In an era of inauthenticity, Stephanie Dowrick is a godsend. Her gift is the ability to write in a manner that genuinely enriches and changes lives.' - Nigel Marsh, host of 'Five of my Life'
Journal writing is an unrivalled way to understand and appreciate your 'one precious life'.
Dr Stephanie Dowrick is an award-winning writer with a unique breadth of psychological insight and creative writing experience. Here she takes journal writing to a new level, sharing the gifts creative journal writing invariably gives:
�Clarity, trust and self-understanding.
�A depth of self-encouragement impossible to achieve another way.
�Access to both sides of your brain for problem solving.
�Inner acceptance and calm.
�Creativity across your whole life.
�Understanding what motivates and drives you.
�Sharper focus. Effective venting.
�A chance to heal at your own pace.
Through immediately rewarding prompts, Creative Journal Writing works for journal writers of all kinds and stages. As journal writer Oprah Winfrey says, 'Keeping a journal will absolutely change your life in ways you've never imagined.'
'One of 20 best-selling creative writing books of all time.' - Bookauthority.org
'With her usual thoroughness and layers of psychological insight, Dowrick has put together a smashingly good set of exercises to help you keep your journal writing fresh and meaningful.' - Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
'Highly recommended. I strongly feel that pretty much every human would benefit from journaling, and this book does a great job of helping people down that path!' - Lisa Shea
'Like the great sages, Dowrick is aware that true wisdom comes from experiencing all that life can bring and reflecting deeply upon it.' - The Listener
'Stephanie Dowrick's writing and career are characterised by motifs of renewal and re-imagining. [Her] work is eclectically informed and pioneering.' - Sydney Morning Herald
'Stephanie Dowrick is a lilting genius of the inner worlds.' - SARK
'One of the most authentic teachers of our time.' - Tao de Haas, psychotherapy coach
'[Stephanie Dowrick] speaks to a wide readership with intimacy, clarity and directness' - The Australian
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