Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on the authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth, and skill-building. In this remarkable collection, eight leading experts from education, counseling, and community service join to offer compelling guidance from applied practice.

The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing provides practical, well tried, and tested suggestions for beginning to write and for developing writing further. It includes ideas for writing individually and for directing groups and explores journal writing, poetry, fiction, autobiography, and writing out trauma, with established writers and those who have taken up writing for private enjoyment.

Using more than fifty prompts and vibrantly illustrated examples, Capacchione guides readers through drawing and writing exercises to release feelings, explore dreams, and solve problems creatively.

Look in the index for “Journal” to find information about journaling.

Inner Journeying Through Art-Journaling introduces a holistic journaling process that combines art, art therapy, design theory, and spiritual direction in order to attain personal balance, awareness of one's own inner processes, resolution of internal conflicts, and enhanced wellness.

Writing to Awaken is an inspirational investigation of the self through expressive writing, guiding you along the path of awakening through radical truth-telling and self-inquiry.

Improve your bullet journals, to-do lists, class notes, and everything in between with The Art of Visual Notetaking and its unique approach to taking notes in the twenty-first century.

This book presents the potential uses and benefits of journals for personal and professional development--particularly for those in academic life; and demonstrates journals' potential to foster college students' learning, fluency and voice, and creative thinking.

Transformation through Journal Writing is a grounded guide to self-reflection through journaling for those in the helping professions.