Free Inquiry

Photo credits: Domingo Alvarez E on Unsplash Emotional Awareness and Pattern Recognition Emotional awareness and pattern recognition is one of the researched benefits of journaling, according to the Mental Health Center at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Offices. According to the experts, writing down your thoughts and emotions enhances emotional awareness. By paying attention to the patterns in your journaling, you…

Photo credits: Steve Johnson on Unsplash Now that I have been journaling for several weeks, days where I feel like I have nothing to write have begun popping up. While journaling is supposed to be a positive experience, I have to admit that the blank page has become frustrating and an obstacle to consistent reflections. In…

Photo credits: Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash It is only the second week into this free inquiry project, and I missed a day of journaling. Actually, I missed a couple of days this week to be fully honest. This was actually quite discouraging for me as this exact same thing has happened before when I have tried…

Once I actually started the journaling process, I quickly was reminded of one of the obstacles or reasons that I had given up in my previous attempts at consistent journaling. That is, assuming that journaling had to look a specific way. Personally, I thought I needed to be writing long paragraphs each and every day…

The first challenge of this free inquiry assignment was actually choosing the topic that I was going to run with. Because of the freedom and parameters of the assignment, this was a difficult task. When I began thinking about a topic, I knew I wanted to go in the direction of developing a skill that…