New Year’s is a great time to remember the good of the past year and consciously envision and create your new year through journaling or other writing.
So, let’s thank and treasure this year that is ending—in writing! Here are 5 ways to do so. Try one or try them all.
- Your Gratitude: Write a list, a poem or a thank you letter to your higher power, yourself or life itself.
- A Compliment: Send someone a text, email, beautiful card or letter sharing how they contributed to your happiness or growth in 2022. Of course, one can get carried away by this one. Once those endorphins kick in you may find yourself writing many!
- A Loss: Consider writing about a loss you grieved in 2022–a loved one who died, a dream you let go of, a change in lifestyle. Honoring the loss can help you release it and make room for something new to bloom, or in the case of a loved one, honoring the loss and help you heart feel both the grief of the loss and the gladness for their place in your life.
- A Regret: Was there something you wish you’d accomplished but hadn’t made time for (ahem, a book, perhaps?)? Here’s a place to write about what got in the way and whether you want to revive this dream or goal for 2023.
- A Beautiful Memory: Write about one or more memories you’ll treasure about this year.
What would it be like to start the new year by journaling every day? Purchase The Joy of Writing Journal: Spark Your Creativity in 8 Minutes a Day and create an easy daily writing/journaling habit in the new year.
Or try Breathe. Write. Breathe. for an even deeper practice, using mindful movement and breath to take you into deeper states of creative flow for your most inspired writing!
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