Writing for your own personal therapy has been a common theme around these parts. If you've had a chance to delve into the "Writing Therapy" blog series, here at Degrees of Maternity, then you know that I've been a strong advocate of using writing as an avenue to bring healing and balance into your life. … Continue reading Writing Therapy: Writing for Others
Missed you all. I’ve been away for a bit, but I’m comin’ at you with a different message for this particular day and for this particular time. It's going to be therapeutically delivered by way of writing therapy reflection, if you don't mind. Now, I’m not trying to get into the weeds with this blog … Continue reading A Writing Therapy Reflection: A Story About the Message in the Tree
Writing things down has so many life-saving capabilities. It really does. Now, I might be using this opening statement in more of a dramatic setting than is called for. But, I have seen, first-hand, how writing therapy (and writing in general) has a way of organizing life so its complexities are easier to manage. I … Continue reading Breaking Down Overwhelm through Written Organization: A Writing Therapy Realization
Thursdays seem to be my blogging comfort zone these days. I might have to go ahead and officially adopt them as my go-to blogging day. So, stay tuned for a blogging schedule update in the very near future. Maybe. Probably. You know how I do when the new school year rolls around again, don't you? … Continue reading Year-in-Remembrance with Writing Therapy List-making (cont.)
Let me go ahead and apologize for being a little delinquent in getting this blog post out for the week. I assure you it wasn't because of playing hooky. As a matter of fact, I have a little project of sorts that I'm working on and will let you in on the details if it … Continue reading Year-in-Remembrance with Writing Therapy List-making
Hey, it's been a minute since I brought you an installment of the "Blogging Truths Be Told" series, but I felt inspired to do so. Just because. And because I love blogging. It's been the mainstay here at Degrees of Maternity. In fact, other platforms have come and gone, been strong then faded in the … Continue reading Blogging Truths Be Told: Blogging . . . a Form of Writing Therapy?
I'm doing a little wordplay action, here. No, I'm not on a Spring Break vacation from my child's school. The only one of my three children left in school just finished his official Spring Break over a week ago. No, I'm not on a Spring Break from work. Work breaks? What are those? There's always … Continue reading Breaking in Spring
So, today's discussion is a little bit about you; but mostly, it has a lot to do about me. Ugghh! Sorry to sound so selfish here, but I'm currently on hold in the Valley of Indecision and it's a frustrating place to be. I've been in the valley before, but NOT THIS DEEP. It's the … Continue reading Indecision is a Progress Killer: A Writing Therapy Reflection
"DEAR DIARY . . . Today was a bad day! I saw so-and-so in the cafeteria line during lunchtime and she didn't even speak to me. Next time I see her, I'm not going to talk to her either, so she can see what being ignored feels like. I don't think we're going to be … Continue reading Fast-tracking the Journaling of Your Moods and Behaviors
Couldn't help myself. Couldn't help myself. I just had to take a moment and push pause on my own words to make room for someone else's. As I mentioned in our last visit with one another, I plan on taking journaling for a multi-part blogging experience, here at Degrees of Maternity. And from what I'm … Continue reading A Crash Course on Journaling from Someone Else
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