This is Hello Freedom and I'm your host Terry Cole.

For almost two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist and transformation coach, and on this show I will bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights and observations

from my time on the front lines of the fascinating

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Now let's get going with today's episode. Well, hello and welcome to Hello Freedom. I'm your host Terry Cole.

As always, I am so excited and grateful that you're spending a little bit of time hanging out with me today.

Today I want to talk about different ways of becoming mindful.

And today I'm focusing on journaling.

So I wonder, do you guys have a journaling practice?

Did you use to have a journaling practice? Do you write things out? Does that do anything

for you? Because I find that when my mind is really busy and with my therapy clients and my coaching clients writing things down can have this

profound impact of clearing your mind, clearing the clutter. Those of us who are not 25 remember the artist's way from

Julia Cameron and there were mourning pages that she would always talk about for a long time for many years.

I would just do my three pages in the morning. I would consider it a mind dump of really starting the day

with a clean slate, sort of like a recalibration of my mind and there are many different

ways to journal and there are many things that people do.

Some of my clients, one of my clients has a voice journal.

I thought that was interesting.

I said, do you ever go back and listen to it?

And she said that she did sometimes.

So I think there's two or three different kinds of journaling some people to just

dump which was the kind that I was doing some to figure out what's going on

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