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The Magical Dialogue Tool
Join me next Thursday on April 20th from 12:00 to 1:00 for a journaling workshop on Zoom. We will learn the very magical dialogue tool. After I reflected on the dialogue I had with my heart, I realized a few things: my heart seems to fiercely defend my true self. I love her for this! […]
Blog Entry Wins Third Place
I’m celebrating a third place contest win for the personal blog, “Confess Already: The Power of Disclosure in Writing”! The win was judged by the 2023 New Mexico Press Women (NMPW) Communications Contest, the largest inclusive media organization in New Mexico. I submitted this blog because I got to practice some of my favorite things, including […]
First Place Contest Winner!
Celebrating a small win today. This personal web site (home of The Writing Shed) won first prize in the New Mexico Press Women Communications Contest 2022!I celebrated with a mango yuzu chantilly cream cupcake. 🎉The New Mexico Press Women (NMPW) was “organized in 1950, as an affiliate of the National Federation of Press Women. It is […]
What Are Your Birthmarks?
Women! What are your birthmarks? What are you trying to hide from the world that God made perfect and beautiful? Where do all of these emotions go when you don’t have the language to talk to your birthmarks? Emotions like confusion or sadness or anger or hate?They get buried in our bodies and they harm […]
Resiliency and Journal Writing
We are a resilient people! But if you “read the popular press–or even psychology journals–you might conclude that PTSD and other mental . . . problems are the standard responses to all large traumas Surprisingly, the opposite is true” (Pennebaker and Smyth, Opening Up by Writing it Down).In Silver and Wortman’s research, they show that […]
A Moment That Teaches You Everything
Do you have a moment in your life that you want to return to? Are the details so vivid that they haunt you at night? Are you craving to understand this moment in your life? This moment that could teach you everything? This moment that could show you your bravery or your resilience or your […]
What Are the Images of Your Life?
Join me this Saturday December 17th at 9:30 a.m. MT to also learn the guided art making tool (in a Zoom journaling session). This tool is all about being the heroine of your own life and not being satisfied with the stories of others. Rumi tells us “unfold your own myth, without complicated explanation, so […]
Learning Life Balance Tool
Do you want to take inventory on an important area in your life? Maybe you want to take stock of your home office space? Maybe you want to consider your spirituality during the holidays? Maybe you want to take inventory of your personal growth over the past year? Join me on December 17th Saturday at […]
Lists of 100 Journaling Tool
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jessica Maggie Brophy | Expressive Writing Teacher 🖋️ (@jessicamaggiebrophy) Join me on Saturday, Nov. 19, at 9:30 a.m. (MT) for a free journaling session learning the “Lists of 100” tool. Register here and consider making a small gift so that everyone can have access to the benefits […]
Expressive Writing in College Classroom
Sometimes I just want to check in with my students and feel their heartbeats. I want to know if the writing process for them has been a healthy one or if they have some unresolved emotions.I recently heard that when students are confronted with a lot of information, it can be a type of trauma. […]
The Flow of Writing
In Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, he writes: “The important thing is to enjoy the activity for its own sake, and to know that what matters is not the result, but the control one is acquiring over one’s attention.” Join me on Wednesday November 2nd at 6:15 p.m. Mountain Time to […]