Often people advocate the use of journaling as a way to clear the air. To get all those bad thoughts out of our system so they don’t poison us. Truth journaling is different. You’re still spilling your thoughts out, but for the purpose of examining ... [ Read More ]
Journal Entry: The Embarrassment of Blogging
Blogging has been one of my renewing of the mind projects for almost a year now. I'm still not finished with the project (unfortunately!) but thought it might be helpful to post some of my entries here. My first blogging problem was just ... [ Read More ]
Living with an Unpleasant Truth: A Reader’s Story
Today I want to share the story of a woman who lived with an unpleasant truth. I met this woman when she commented on my other blog a few years ago, and we developed a friendship. Here's a portion of her first comment on the blog: I should be ... [ Read More ]
Truth Journaling: If He Loved Me, He Wouldn’t Say Those Things
Today I want to use the phone conversation in my post earlier this week to highlight the difference between regular truth journaling and list truth journaling. If you're new to truth journaling, click here for a post on list truth journaling and ... [ Read More ]
What If You Can’t “Just Get Over It”?
In my last post I mentioned 15 words that would change your relationships. But what if you say those words and you can’t “just get over it”? That’s when you need to pull out some heavier-duty artillery. In this post I want to take those thoughts ... [ Read More ]
Guest Truth Journal
Note: This is a guest post by a young friend of mine who has been truth journaling for several years. Be sure to read all of her thoughts down the left side of her truth journal chart. I wrote this in the cafeteria my freshman year in college – on ... [ Read More ]
Truth Journaling: The List Method
Today I'd like to show you another way to truth journal. It's called the list method. Instead of writing out your thoughts, you begin by asking yourself a question: What am I believing that's making me not want to work on my goal? Or what am I ... [ Read More ]
Truth Journaling
Today I want to dive into our first renewing of the mind tool. It’s called truth journaling, and many of you are already familiar with this tool from my Bible Study Freedom from Emotional Eating. Truth journaling is a practice that sprang out of a ... [ Read More ]