If you ever considered taking up journaling but didn't know where or how to start, how you will. This book deftly explains the emotional and physiological benefits of personal writing and introduces several easy yet powerful techniques that lead into inner knowledge and outer awareness for both beginners and experienced writers. Plus, an entire year's worth of prompts ~yes, 365 engaging prompts! ~will help you develop a daily writing habit that can inform and transform your life. Plynn Gutman has captured the essence of what journaling writing is meant to do, bring heightened awareness of ourselves. Journal writing activates our subconscious like nothing else and opens us up to our unseen world giving direct access to bring transformation into our lives through our own words, our own work and our own investment of energy by carving out the time to speak and to listen to our inner world we create space for it to manifest in our outer world. Plynn Gutman MFA, CPC, has been journaling for over 25 years. She believes deeply in the power of personal writing to inform, incite, heal and transform our lives. As an Integrated Life  coach, retreat facilitator and writing teacher, journaling is an integral part of her work with clients and students around the world. She created an "App" to go with your Journal Companion: 365 Writing Prompts to Heighten Awareness of Self and Others. You can find both at Amazon, I Tunes and Barnes and Noble.