A submissives journey - your journal

Don't let the blank journal page intimidate you. Just start writing and write everyday until it becomes a daily habit. Books like Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity and Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down The Bones: Freeing the Writer Within offer suggestions for finding the freedom to write down your emotions and feelings. And if you're more comfortable with a keyboard than with a pen, type away. The key is to get your feelings down, regardless of how you do it.

The journal serves as a "vessel" for your emotions that you may be unable or unwilling to share.

Need some help getting started? In her journal-writing workshops, Charlene Kingston, of Writing The Journey, suggests some basic topics that will get you started.

(Note: although these appear to be fairly "vanilla" topics, they're easily adaptable to the D/s Lifestyle. your Dominant may also offer other suggestions of things to write about)

Who am I? How do I know who I am?
What does it mean to be content?
Do I listen more or talk more? Why?
What does it mean to nurture myself?
Am I comfortable with my feelings? What makes me cry or laugh? When am I comfortable expressing my feelings?
How much of my time is spent with other people and how much am I alone?
Why do bad things happen? Who is responsible when something bad happens to me?
How do I handle stress? Do I welcome challenges?
What is my unique gift to the world?

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