Reflection

NIWP
Leaving a Trace
by Alexandra Johnson
Transforming a Life - Patterns and Meanings

• Journals are narratives, life stories told in Expressive writing with deep and often hidden patterns of meaning.

Gaining access to the interior life is a kind of ...archaeology: on the basis of some information and a little bit of guesswork, you journey to a site to see what remains were left behind and you reconstruct the world.

Toni Morrison

• A journal is a self-portrait, its narrative still evolving. It gives you, the writer, the time to tell and reframe your life's story.

When i write in my diary, that telling is itself a gesture toward consciousness and control. If you keep a diary, you live a narrated life, and a narrated life s intrinsically different; it has an extra layer.

Dr. Perri Klass

Journals tend to contain 10 categories of life patterns:

• longing
• fear
• mastery
• intentional silences
• key influences
• hidden lessons
• secret gifts
• challenges
• unfinished business
• untapped potential

Connections:
Past, Present, Future

Revisions:
To see again


A person's work is nothing but a long journey to recover, through the detours of art, the two or three simple and great images which first gained access to their hearts.

Albert Camus