The Jewish Journaling Book: How to Use Jewish Tradition to Write Your Life & Explore Your Soul

Explore your experiences, relationships, and feelings through this guided tour of
journal-keeping in Jewish tradition.

Journaling has been, and remains, an inherently Jewish activity. From the Kabbalist mystics who recorded their practices of reaching altered states of consciousness, to the more recent journals of those who lived during the Holocaust, to the spiritual precedent for Jewish journal-keeping at holy times of the year, writing, recording, and reflecting have long been a part of Jewish custom.

Janet Ruth Falon delves into the practical aspects of keeping a journal as well as how you can use your journal to nurture Jewish values and concerns. Using examples from her own writing, she demonstrates how journaling can unleash your creativity and reveal aspects of yourself that you may not have thought about before. She also includes 52 journaling tools that teach specific techniques to help you create and maintain a vital, living journal, from a Jewish perspective.

Inspiring and practical, this guided tour of journaling shows how yours can be used to better understand yourself and the world.

Janet Ruth Falon is an award-winning journalist, essayist, poet and teacher. She teaches journaling and creative writing at many venues, including the University of Pennsylvania, and is available to teach workshops based on the concepts in her book, The Jewish Journaling Book: How to Use Jewish Tradition to Write Your Life and Explore Your Soul. Her articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Christian Science Monitor.

Janet Falon is available to speak on the following topics:

• Journaling