Healing Through Focused Journaling with Catherine Ann Jones

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Jones gives practical advice as to how we can engage in deep inner work through focused journaling. She shares exercises that can act as powerful tools in reframing the pieces of our past and our life stories, so that suffering becomes meaningful and can boost our healing, empowerment, growth, and transformation. She encourages us to find our authentic gifts and to be awake to allies who come in unexpected ways. She says they come in many forms. “It could be an invisible ally, it could be a dream, it could be a book falling off a shelf giving you just what you need to know at that time, or it could be a stranger you happen to meet that will say something that points you to clues as you go through your own adventure.” She shares how we can begin to understand the archetypes, metaphors and images that are guiding our lives and if we want to change our lives we must change our guiding and, often times, unconscious metaphors. (hosted by Justine Willis Toms)

Bio

Catherine Ann Jones is an award winning playwright, screenwriter and a Fulbright Scholar to India, studying shamanism. She holds a graduate degree and teaches depth psychology and archetypal mythology. As a screenwriter, Jones has contributed to such television series as “Touched by an Angel,” and wrote the teleplay “The Christmas Wife.” She teaches writing workshops.

She’s the author of:

• Heal Your Self With Writing (Divine Arts 2013)
• The Way of Story: The Craft & Soul of Writing (Michael Weise Productions 2007)

To learn more about Catherine Ann Jones’ work go to www.wayofstory.com.

Topics Explored in This Dialogue

• How memory is subjective and changeable
• What are body dialogues
• How can we find our inner, intuitive voice
• What is the difference between automatic writing and focused journaling
• How writing can help us disentangle ourselves from our parents’ dreams and focus on our own
• In what different forms can allies show up
• How knowing and changing your personal metaphor can change your life
• Why we need to understand our shadow, our dark side
• Why deep and active listening is important
• What are our choices when we are at a crossroad in our lives
• Why we might want to share our writings with others

Host: Justine Willis Toms   Interview Date: 2/28/2014   Program Number: 3500

Music Playlist

From Album: Intervention
Artist: Helen Jane Long
2012 BLlE Music Records #9790900213570

Opening Essay: Track 01 Intervention
Music Break 1: Track 02 Free
Music Break 2: Track 06 Fountain
Music Break 3: Track 03 Willow