Weekly Journaling Room

Discover the Power of Journaling

Use journaling as a tool for healing and as a stepping stone to turn your personal story into a book. Whether your goal is personal healing or sharing your experiences with the world, journaling can be a powerful and transformative process.

The Benefits of Journaling

Use writing to heal

Journaling provides a safe and private space to express your emotions, thoughts, and experiences.
The act of writing can be cathartic and help release pent-up emotions, providing a sense of relief.
Journaling allows for self-reflection and introspection, helping you gain a deeper understanding of your experiences and emotions.
You can identify patterns, triggers, and recurring themes in your life that contribute to your pain or your story.
Writing things down can bring clarity to complex emotions and situations.
It allows you to step back and view your experiences from an objective perspective, which can be therapeutic.
Journaling can help you work through problems and find solutions to challenges you're facing.
It encourages you to brainstorm and plan, which can be useful in healing or storytelling.

The act of journaling can make you feel more in control of your emotions and your narrative.
As you articulate your pain or story, you may feel a growing sense of empowerment and agency.
Keeping a journal over time allows you to track your emotional growth and healing journey.
You can see how you've evolved and gained strength, which can be motivating.
If you're considering turning your story into a book, journaling is a great way to practice and improve your writing skills.
It gives you a platform to experiment with your voice, style, and narrative structure.
Journaling preserves your thoughts and experiences for posterity, creating a record of your life journey.
This can be valuable for both personal growth and the creation of a memoir or autobiography.

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Mary E Knippel, Your Writing Mentor - Write without Fear, Edit without Mercy

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"Mary connects heart to heart, soul to soul with women that have a story burning in them. She helps them unmute their voice so that their words are infused with their passion and the confidence flows through them to share their story.”

~ L.Garris

About Mary

Mary E. Knippel is the Soul Story Writer, who supports Coaches, Consultants, Authors, in other words Transformational Leaders, connect to their soul’s wisdom and empowers them to express themselves in the written word. She is on a mission to help women discover their voices, help them be heard and empower them to claim the soul story only they can tell. Mary E. Knippel writes and speaks about how individuals and businesses can articulate their life’s wisdom to achieve tangible results. She will inspire you to share the story only you can share.

Her company, YourWritingMentor, is an inspiration driven education company supporting writers to become authors, grow their businesses and to leave a legacy beyond this lifetime.

YourWritingMentor supports writers through its online and in-person education programs. Because so many women have been told their stories don’t matter, Mary is committed to helping women articulate the wisdom gleaned from their life’s experiences their transformational story. As a life-long journal writer, Mary understands the vulnerability and the importance of showing up on the page. First for yourself, and then for those who need the wisdom you are here to share.

Mary’s memoir, The Secret Artist-Give Yourself Permission to Let Your Creativity Shine chronicles how she used writing as a healing tool throughout her first two breast cancer journeys. At the end of each essay, she encourages readers with writing prompts to write their own story.

As a writing mentor and journalist for four decades, Mary uses her intuitive skills to ask thought provoking questions to help writers discover and craft the stories longing to be revealed.

In 2022 Mary stepped into the role of publisher as the compiler of the Amazon bestselling collaborative book Written In Her Own Words-Wise Woman Wisdom. Previously, she participated in numerous co-author projects as a contributor, editor and ghost writer. In the vein of such writers as Jane Austen, Mary often encourages the muse by occupying her hands with a craft project so that her mind if free to receive insights and intuitive downloads. As a result, her workshops often highlight a creative activity to spark participants imagination.

In 2023, Mary added Retreat Leader to her offerings. A devoted retreat participant, Mary facilitates the Wild Woman Wisdom Retreat which features many opportunities for those attending these intimate gatherings to be welcomed into a world designed to encourage their creativity and enhance their voice. Everyone is pampered and indulged and walks away with a deeper connection to their soul. Participants also have an opportunity to create a personal talisman as a tangible example of their creativity.

Mary is active in the writing communities from Minnesota, Colorado and throughout California in various roles as a contributing columnist, speaker, workshop facilitator and/or independent editor.

Women’s National Book Assn-San Francisco Chapter (current member, program speaker, and past president)
California Writers Club-Peninsula Branch (club member, program speaker, and past board member)
San Francisco Writers Conference (SFWC), staff member since 2004. (Mary’s role at the first in 2004 was babysitting the purses in the volunteer lounge. Since then she’s honed her writing and editing skills and held the position of Indep Editor Coordinator for the past eight years.)

Mary lives in Half Moon Bay, California with her husband. Mary is a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism. She earned her degree the same year she and her husband adopted a baby girl. To Mary’s delight, the baby girl has a baby of her Bullet Listown which has blessed Mary with the title of NaNa.