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Journaling Through Relationships: Writing to Heal and Reconnect
Imagine being able to improve relationships with everyone you know.Imagine being able to forgive the hurts of the past and leverage painful relationship experiences into healthier ways of relating.From your parents or caregivers to siblings, extended family, friends, teachers, and lovers, every interaction has left its mark on you. Whether you were nurtured as a child or left to your own devices, popular or bullied, loved or rejected, you carry the effects of all your past relationships with you.
Using a unique series of writing prompts, Journaling through Relationships guides you in an exploration of every relationship in your life, past and present, and helps
Reflect on the impact of relationships on your lifeGain understanding of the sources and effects of your unconscious patternsIdentify the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationshipsBe empowered to create positive change Get your copy now, uncover more about yourself than you ever thought possible, and begin your relationship transformation.
Using a unique series of writing prompts, Journaling through Relationships guides you in an exploration of every relationship in your life, past and present, and helps
Reflect on the impact of relationships on your lifeGain understanding of the sources and effects of your unconscious patternsIdentify the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationshipsBe empowered to create positive change Get your copy now, uncover more about yourself than you ever thought possible, and begin your relationship transformation.
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Published May 11, 2019
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May 12, 2019
This short book packs profoundly stimulating ideas. In fact, I am reminded of a rather lengthy and complex journal program I used to do-- Progoff's Intensive Journal. This book, like the Progoff method, calls the reader/writer to explore both troublesome and fulfilling relationships, with honesty, in safety, and with the subsequent task of rereading the work to gain an insight or two that escaped during the original writing. Often, when we write in our journals, we feel we've made some new connection, uncovered some new motivation for our (or another's) behavior. We would be fooling ourselves to let our work lie. By reading again, and also after time passes, we discern insights that now stand out clearly. We wrote the truth, and we wrote our own path for healing, often without conscious awareness. Like a cake in the oven, no longer smelled by the baker until it comes out, our journal offers up a new and transformed product after it's "cooked".
Each chapter begins with an interesting quote from a person well-known in his or her area of endeavor. The author offers a few paragraphs that serve to help the reader face some resistant blocks regarding relationship, especially of the dysfunctional type. She often adds a few paragraphs of her own experience. Her honesty in sharing herself should encourage even a new journal writer.
All of the traditional relationships are addressed, as well as several not-so-traditional ones. There is chapter focusing on on-line relationships with respect to their ability to fulfill the needs and responsibilities of relationship. I have often thought about on-line "relationships" and been curious, sometimes troubled, about how they actually work to serve the needs of those involved. Perhaps I shall journal about this.
One needn't read the book cover-to-cover. Not all of us participate in all types of relationship, and not all of us need healing in many of our relationships. She does suggest, though, that if a reader has not experienced a particular relationship, that relationship still offers ground for tilling, in the exploration of the reasons and circumstances for not having participated in a certain type of relationship. Why or why not, and what was or is the feeling connected with those states?
The prompts occurring in each chapter are appropriate and somewhat predictable. The value in this book-- or any book on journal writing, in my opinion-- does not lie in the prompts but in how a writer can use a prompt as a springboard into depths not even suggested by the prompt itself. All of this depends upon a writer's courage to feel and write as honestly as is possible, and Amber Lea Starfire makes that task easier with this book.
Each chapter begins with an interesting quote from a person well-known in his or her area of endeavor. The author offers a few paragraphs that serve to help the reader face some resistant blocks regarding relationship, especially of the dysfunctional type. She often adds a few paragraphs of her own experience. Her honesty in sharing herself should encourage even a new journal writer.
All of the traditional relationships are addressed, as well as several not-so-traditional ones. There is chapter focusing on on-line relationships with respect to their ability to fulfill the needs and responsibilities of relationship. I have often thought about on-line "relationships" and been curious, sometimes troubled, about how they actually work to serve the needs of those involved. Perhaps I shall journal about this.
One needn't read the book cover-to-cover. Not all of us participate in all types of relationship, and not all of us need healing in many of our relationships. She does suggest, though, that if a reader has not experienced a particular relationship, that relationship still offers ground for tilling, in the exploration of the reasons and circumstances for not having participated in a certain type of relationship. Why or why not, and what was or is the feeling connected with those states?
The prompts occurring in each chapter are appropriate and somewhat predictable. The value in this book-- or any book on journal writing, in my opinion-- does not lie in the prompts but in how a writer can use a prompt as a springboard into depths not even suggested by the prompt itself. All of this depends upon a writer's courage to feel and write as honestly as is possible, and Amber Lea Starfire makes that task easier with this book.
May 14, 2019
In her new book Amber explains how relationships impact and influence our lives and how journaling about these relationships can bring us closer to gaining clarity and even acceptance of our own behaviours, and that of others.
Not knowing where to start, beginning to write about our relationships can seem like an overwhelming and emotional task, but by using her own personal examples Amber guides us with gentle prompts through the different relationships in life with great insight and understanding.
The roles of relationships are explained with allowance and consideration given to the fact that not all relationships are traditional.
Amber shows us how to recognise destructive relationship patterns and how we can begin to bring about change where needed.
We learn about all the relationships through life, right down to social media, and how to acknowledge and journal about the end of relationships whether it be a job loss, divorce or death.
By taking what we learn from Amber we can be more aware of our own behaviours in relationships, as well as that of others, enabling us to make the most of any relationship we are in, either family, professional, or social.
Not knowing where to start, beginning to write about our relationships can seem like an overwhelming and emotional task, but by using her own personal examples Amber guides us with gentle prompts through the different relationships in life with great insight and understanding.
The roles of relationships are explained with allowance and consideration given to the fact that not all relationships are traditional.
Amber shows us how to recognise destructive relationship patterns and how we can begin to bring about change where needed.
We learn about all the relationships through life, right down to social media, and how to acknowledge and journal about the end of relationships whether it be a job loss, divorce or death.
By taking what we learn from Amber we can be more aware of our own behaviours in relationships, as well as that of others, enabling us to make the most of any relationship we are in, either family, professional, or social.
May 13, 2019
Taking us through our present and past relationships with people and ourselves, this book gently guides us in a gradual awareness of our singular way of connecting.
Relationships can be a very sensitive topic as many of our traumas are interpersonal.
But the author has a friendly way of presenting information and invites the reader to respect his own pace and tolerance in journaling the prompts.
So far, I have read the book, reflecting on the information and the questions in each chapter.
But surprisingly, it has had already an influence on me through insights popping up, bringing a different perspective.
Being able to link all my relationships in one string of reflection is beneficial to me, it gives me a feeling of coherence and integrity, although my relationships assessment is not a happy one.
I didn't expect a journaling book to give me the confidence and motivation to begin addressing my relationship life. It is an empowering experience. Thank you Amber !
I highly recommend this amazing book.
Relationships can be a very sensitive topic as many of our traumas are interpersonal.
But the author has a friendly way of presenting information and invites the reader to respect his own pace and tolerance in journaling the prompts.
So far, I have read the book, reflecting on the information and the questions in each chapter.
But surprisingly, it has had already an influence on me through insights popping up, bringing a different perspective.
Being able to link all my relationships in one string of reflection is beneficial to me, it gives me a feeling of coherence and integrity, although my relationships assessment is not a happy one.
I didn't expect a journaling book to give me the confidence and motivation to begin addressing my relationship life. It is an empowering experience. Thank you Amber !
I highly recommend this amazing book.
May 12, 2019
Amber Lea Starfire's book Journaling Through Relationships is a phenomenal tool for taking a deep dive into those core relationships -- from parents to friends, lovers, and children -- that have shaped us in ways both known and unknown. As a marriage and family therapist, I am thankful that Amber has written a thoughtful, approachable book that I will now share with my friends, family, and clients. Her insightful questions have helped me to set some goals and level up my own consciousness about the most important relationships in my life. Even if you don't think you have "issues," this book will help you better understand and appreciate their influence on you. Bonus: If you've read her other books like I have, you will feel like you know her and exactly where she's coming from.
May 17, 2019
Journaling Through Relationships is my 2nd journaling book by Amber Lea Starfire (first was Journaling the Chakras) and this book is also one to keep and re-use for many years. I've journaled for 55 years so it's familiar territory, but Amber provides such a variety of prompts that guide me down unexplored paths in my own psyche. The index is an effective tool to find where to go in the book, although I read most of the book before starting to work with the prompts. This book can be used as affordable self-therapy, or by therapists to support clients working with relationship challenges and who want to use journaling as a tool. Amber Lea Starfire has managed to create a useful book for professionals, experienced journalers, and people who have never tried journaling before.
May 19, 2019
If you want to get the most out of your journaling practice, 'Journaling Through Relationships: Writing to Heal and Reconnect is a must. The wisdom it contains, along with the insight-inducing exercises contained in each chapter, provide the means to explore your relationships in the safety and privacy of your journal. I have not yet managed to work my way through the entire book, however I have already experienced deeper understanding about how some of the fundamental relationships in my life have affected me. I look forward to continuing this exploration under Amber's expert guidance. If you love journaling, and how it facilitates self-growth, you will love this book. Thoroughly recommended.
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