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The Reciprocal Journaling Practice is an iterative method of journaling that heavily centers meta-cognition. It is broken into 8 parts: Awareness, Curiosity, Meta-Awareness, Agency, Application, Evolution, Reflect,  and Reciprocate. What is a 'journaling practice'? A journaling practice is habitual, focuses journaling on particular themes and ideas. Practices are a part of your life, rather than being a chore or task. They are intentional, ongoing, and evolve as your needs do

We have a lot of words to describe the process of something coming into out consciousness and then we tag that memory somehow. There are different ways of being aware, and therefore different ways to approach journaling. Noticing Seeing, noting, spotting. The act of something popping into your mind and you mentally marking it. Recording Transcribing reality into the journal from an objective perspective. Documenting Recording and storing a conclusion. Witnessing The goal is

Witnessing is such a beautiful term in journaling. I also use "observe" and "analyzing" but there is a peacefulness to witnessing. Witnessing is outside yourself. You are simply there. You aren't going out your way to make any particular observations, conclusions, or to collect data to analyze. There's no mission associated with witnessing outside of the witnessing itself. It is the present and still part of journaling.

Now that I've name the cycle of how I use journaling to expand and evolve ( Reciprocal Journaling Practice) I can consciouly apply it where I'm stuck. This is why being your own cartographer and naming things matters. Now that I have a name and that I understand my mind more, I'm equipped to be more intentional. With what? With navigating social landscapes. I wont' go into detail about it here. But being a person is hard. We all have masks on to some degree or another and I

Gratitude journaling isn't just writing about what you're grateful for. It is using your awareness to find goodness in order to be grateful Writing what you're grateful for ⇄ Using your awareness to find goodness. Awareness First . Gratitude journaling is not what you think it is. I mean, it is. But it isn't limited to what you think it is. How would you define gratitude journaling? Most people would say, it is journaling about what you are grateful for. I agree. That's a bea

Is it an analogy or is it just how learning works? You know what's funny about a journaling practice that has become meta? Analogies are everything. They're everything in learning and everything in growth. Schemas are nothing but analogies. Without analogies, our learning would the absorbing of isolated facts. Instead, we group things with their likes. To utilize our different groups together (synthesis) we find associations between them, connections, or opportunities for the

I've been thinking about LYJ and what it is trying to quantify. Funny enough, I don't want to quantify it too much as to not take away from the cultivation of your own system. I don't want people to have my system, but I do want them to understand that journaling is worth acknowledging as its own entity in the same way that we acknowledge meditation, yoga, therapy and other internal health and wellness practices. I also want to point out, it's impossible to fully capture wh

I've went back and read my own entries. I've been thinking about why I am no longer attached to my old journals . I plan on using their pages to create art pieces where I once would have done everything I can to protect them. Why? I know this is a shift for me. You don't just go from being protective over source material to just seeing it as art. Why is it a droste now? Why did it shrink? Why do I feel like I'm a staircase above it? Growth ⇄ Expansion Growth is upward, exp

Love 3/5/26 I can't call the feeling positivity It looks like memories, upcoming and past, with my family and friends. It's understanding that the people that are in life with us right now, all the strangers, are our life partners. They are the people who are living in this current period with us right now... They aren't nobody. They aren't strangers or distant, they are sharing a Now with us. It's not confidence that I feel, it is knowing. This isn't joy that I feel, it is r

Though I do advocate for the forming of your own, unique journaling ventures, I cannot have my own journaling philosophy without a "story" to anchor it in. The philosophy is in the connections between what I learned. The recurring themes that resurface and connect my journals is what my philosophy is based on. No rules, habits or "supposed-tos". I tracked the happenstance that was already governing my journals and acknowledged them as law. Awareness came first. I practiced be

Arrival is the feeling of "alignment". It is noticing that you are living in accordance with your values. Compare this to living for you goals...