Journaling? Inner Child? Inner Peace?

In the darker ages of personal growth – the ’80′s, before the Internet and cell phones and communities with an online reflective journal, I seemingly stumbled upon journaling and the terms inner peace and inner child over the span of 2 or 3 years. In my spiritual program, the 12-Steps, the buzz around the program was to keep a reflective journal. In it I could write my feelings and my gratitude lists and my complaints. Just get it out of my obsessive head. I have a couple of those journals and I see that they represent the history of my growth as a human being.

In them are hopes, dreams, Love Letters, pleading letters to God, gratitude. In those pages you will find my self growth from the first days of my 180 degree turn around through various momentous life experiences and learning.

Back then, as I hung around the program and started to absorb all that I was hearing at a deeper level, I came to believe that it was possible for me to have inner peace. It

My reflective journal from 1980

still sounded like some sort of fairy tale but I did notice how many people talked about it. I personally had never experienced anything like it. I certainly could relate to having experienced lots of pain but my basically optimistic nature latched on to anything I heard that sounded faintly hopeful that I could feel better then I had felt in most of the previous 33 years. Inner peace had that optimistic ring to it.

Then a couple of years later I stumbled again – right into a program that taught me about my inner child. I have no idea where I thought each age I had gone through went but it seemed a bit of a revelation to learn that that inner child was me!

It’s many years later now, I’ve experienced much healing, lots of journaling, much processing of feelings, coaching of me and by me, and growing. I now realize that the tools offered right here on this site, a Journaling-for-You Community with self-guided assignments and amazing support is the 2010 version of where to go, who to talk to and what to do when your inner child is screaming and you want inner peace.

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