journaling was really the first thing that ever helped me. It is actually the foundational

building block that allows me to have a life that I love. By diving into the story, by making it

my own, by being really intentional, I could have a life I love. There is a delight in getting to know

yourself. Have you ever DM'd with your soul?

And by that, I mean journaling.

Journaling is such an intricate practice with to be magnetic, with inner work, with healing work,

and it can actually rewire your brain and your neural pathways just by processing information

in the written form. On today's podcast, we are welcoming back Tara Schuster, an accomplished TV

executive turned bestselling author, author of By Yourself the Fucking Lilies, Glow in the

Fucking Dark, and her latest book, This Journal Fucking

Works, The Science, Ritual, and Art of Journaling.

In today's episode, we talk about how you can utilize some of the science-backed methods

to journaling to find a practice that relates to you so you can start to pull back, process your thoughts,

and actually reconnect with your soul. Journaling is a practice I've done for many years in many

different forms and it actually was during the Return to Magic Challenge. I realized how much I was

leaning so heavy on the deep imaginings and not doing as much of the journaling.

And one thing we talk about a lot is how when you put pen to paper, when you're doing the

actual art of writing something down, it crosses so many different pathways in your brain

that allows you to process your thoughts more. We talk about this more in the episode, but personally, I noticed

after each section of doing this recent challenge that no matter what inner child phase I was in,

I had this moment of, I have more to say and I don't really know what form to express it in. So I wound

up giving myself the journal prompt of what else needs to come up

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