This interactive workshop explores journaling--a tool for developing greater self-awareness, managing stress, and clarifying changes you want and need to make.  Whether writing about life transitions, health, stress, weight management or grief issues, journaling offers a bridge to improved health and well-being. 

Current research demonstrates that journal writing can improve your health, coping skills, immune system functioning, cognitive abilities and emotional adaptations to stressful events.  Journaling also fosters a deeper, intuitive connection to the emotional and spiritual dimensions of personal growth.  Combining imaginative writing exercises with mind-body medicine skills, we will explore the healing, creative possibilities of journaling to nurture your personal focus and developing writing voice.

Please bring a notebook or journal and pen.

Instructor: Suzanne Olson, MSW, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice. She has taught previous Journaling classes through HIP and has worked as a Health Coach for Women's Health at Stanford University.  For over thirty years she has kept a personal journal and has attended many writing workshops.