Refresh with Dawn Herring: Part I #JournalChat Live Facebook Group Discussion with Special Guest, Jill Winski. Topic: Your Journaling: The Meaning of Words

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Welcome to today's Part I of our ‪#‎JournalChat‬ Live Double Feature Event with Special Guest, Jill Winski! Today is our Facebook Group Event and we will also have a Twitter chat on Sunday with Jill at 3 CST if you would also like to join us there.

So, This event's topic is Your ‪#‎Journaling‬: The Meaning of Words as we discuss using our journals to list words and discover what they tell us about Who We Are and Honor our Preferences at the same time.

Here is Jill's post, Knowing Yourself: What Words Inspire You? which is our journaling resource for this event.

Knowing yourself: what words inspire you?

Here's a super-simple journaling exercise that can be a quick way of reconnecting with ourselves. It's also truly helpful for those times when we're feeling really UNcreative. I once did this with ...

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Jill Winski Hello Dawn! So good to be here.

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Dawn Herring Glad to have you, Jill Winski, as returning special guest. Love your content; and this one is terrific.

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Jill Winski Thanks so much, Dawn!

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Marianne Ingheim Rossi I loved this post!

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Dawn Herring Hi Marianne. Welcome back!

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Jill Winski Hi Marianne! Glad you liked the post!

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Sue Ekins Thought-provoking post, Jill!

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Jill Winski Thanks, Sue! Good to see you!

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Dawn Herring Welcome back, Sue!

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Sue Ekins Thanks, Dawn and Jill. Busy day but I'm glad to be here for awhile.

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Madeline Tasky Sharples I need to say goodbye as well. Thanks for inviting me Dawn Herring. Loved all the journaling words you all like to use. See you next time.

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Sue Ekins Take care Madeline Tasky Sharples. Good to see you.

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Jill Winski Glad you were here, Sue and Madeline!

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Dawn Herring It was great to have you, Madeline. Good evening to you.

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Sue Ekins I'm still here! Guess I wasn't clear in what I said above.

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Jill Winski Glad you're still here, Sue! I misread

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Debra Marrs I enjoyed my first LIVE chat with you all. Thanks, Dawn, for hosting us, and thanks, Jill, for inspiring us with your blog post. Until next time:#keepjournaling

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Dawn Herring Thanks so much for joining us, Debra; loved your ideas!

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Jill Winski So glad you joined us, Debra Marrs!

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Sue Ekins Great getting to know you Debra Marrs.

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Carrie Aulenbacher *breathless* I'm here!

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Jill Winski Welcome, Carrie!

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Dawn Herring Carrie, welcome back!

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I have personally done the journaing exercise Jill provides in her post of listing words you love and hate. I even share what this revealed to me in a blog post as well.

I recommend this exercise, have done it several times and plan to use it again since it's so revealing and enlightening.

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Jill Winski I love the post you did based on this exercise, too, Dawn!

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Dawn Herring I learned so much, Jill, I just had to share it.

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Marianne Ingheim Rossi Great example of how repetition captures your attention, when the same word keeps coming up. When I teach Lists of 100, I always tell my students to go ahead and repeat themselves. It's OK! It establishes patterns, what's really important to you.

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Dawn Herring I noticed that too, when I did a list of 100, Marianne. It's hard not to. I also repeated myself with Jill's exercise too.

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Since this group is comprised of journal keepers, I will assume that some of you have written lists in your journals before. I write them as well, especially since I now write in a sketch book instead of a lined book, which I did until last year.

I love writing lists, and this exercise of writing what you LOVE and HATE can be so insightful.

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- Jill Winski I love writing lists, too, Dawn. It's a great way to keep your writing muscles in shape.
  
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- Jerry Waxler I just left a comment on the blog. Here it is. Is this the kind of thing that contributes to a live meeting? "Interesting. It gives me an idea for a slight variation. Sometimes I receive comments back from beta readers that say I use certain words too frequently. This creates a problem for me because the reason I use those words is that I like them. An example might be "deep" or "feeling" - you've given me the idea to journal about those words, and try to let my mind move around them and "lighten up" about those words - like elevating to a higher plane and inhaling the words instead of going deep and feeling them. Thanks for this."
  
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- Dawn Herring I think lists are terrific; they can help us see things from a new point of view. And we can change the topic of the list any time. But the contrast you provide makes it all the more telling, Jill.
  
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- Dawn Herring Jerry, great to have you join us today! And thanks for taking the time to leave a comment on my blog and sharing it here. Feedback can be crucial when writing a book, and being able to note what words you use a lot can really tell you more of Who You Are. What meaning do they carry for you, especially right now?
  
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- Madeline Tasky Sharples I'm going to try the LOVE and HATE lists. Thanks,Dawn Herring.
  
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- Jill Winski Jerry Waxler, that's a fascinating observation! I wonder how many of our favorite writers tend to use the same words a lot? Some of that is definitely part of a writer's style and voice. Hmm. Food for thought for me, too.
  
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- Dawn Herring I'm sure I use a lot of the same words as well; like, refresh, empower, positive change, etc. These words are powerful and relevant to me on a daily basis because I know how they enhance my life.
  
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- Jerry Waxler I could write a book about my relationship to "deep" and "feel" - deep is about my longing to make sense of things, and the word "feel" is my dream of someday being able to capture my feelings in words - I have come a long way and have a long journey ahead on both counts.
  
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- Madeline Tasky Sharples I know you'll do it Jerry - you have a way with words.
  
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- Debra Marrs Your mention of an unlined journal, Dawn, makes me think of how I sometimes write lists in a circular pattern, starting at the outer edge of paper and turn it 45 degrees, around and around until I reach the center. It's a fun way to see the words differently than like soldiers in a line on paper
  
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- Dawn Herring Sounds wonderful, Jerry!
  
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- Jill Winski I love that idea, Debra Marrs!
  
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- Dawn Herring Oh, cool, Debra. There's such freedom with a sketch book; maybe I should try moving it around too. Hmmm.
  
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- Jill Winski I journal in sketch books, too -- love them.
  
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- Jerry Waxler Thanks for the encouragement, Dawn Herring, Madeline Tasky Sharples and Jill Winski. I'm a "lapsed" journaller, having done it religiously for about 10 years, and then moving to edited stuff. I consider my drafts a form of journaling, but of course, when it's directed toward a goal, I don't give myself the total freedom of a journal. You are inspiring me to find other ways to use the journal.
  
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- Dawn Herring Wonderful that you are inspired, Jerry! Yay. That makes my journaling heart smile.
  
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- Sue Ekins I've written lists of things that inspire me.
  
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- Dawn Herring Inspiration. Love that focus, Sue.
  
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- Sue Ekins "Inspire" and "inspiring" are definitely words I use a lot. Words that I hate often have to do with conflict or drama.
  
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- Beth Shekinah Terrence I am a huge list writer! I write feelings lists, ideas lists, beliefs lists, inspirational lists, etc. It's a great way to get the words and ideas flowing as well as just do a download sometimes of what's inside.
  
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- Jill Winski That's really interesting, Sue. I noticed I was not big on "conflict" words either!
  
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- Dawn Herring Conflict was one of mine too, Sue.
  
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- Dawn Herring Welcome back, Beth! I love the word download, Beth, for our journal content. It's like a release and a reveal at the same time. Information that comes straight from the pen!
  
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- Jill Winski Beth, I love your different categories of lists. So true that lists are helpful for getting words flowing. I think because they are simple.
  
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- Marianne Ingheim Rossi Love inspire and inspiring, too!
  
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- Beth Shekinah Terrence Hi Everyone! Nice to see you again!
  
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- Sue Ekins Nice to see you, Beth, and everyone else!
  
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- Marianne Ingheim Rossi I wonder if it's because there's no pressure as far as writing a complete sentence, or a beautiful sentence, just words.
  
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- Madeline Tasky Sharples I also use inspire and inspiring a lot too.
  
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- Jill Winski I think that's true, Marianne. And you can be very stream-of-consciousness with lists.
  
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- Dawn Herring I agree with the stream of consciousness part, Jill. It's like, just let them flow and don't second guess, just write and see what comes out.
  
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- Jill Winski Yes, Dawn, it can help us let go of our self-censor.
  
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- Marianne Ingheim Rossi Interesting, Jerry Waxler, how we get attached to certain words. I've noticed in my memoir that I use the word "meaning" a lot.
  
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- Sue Ekins That's a great idea about using lists to hold back our self-censor. Probably what I need to do. The concept reminds me of brainstorming.
  
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- Jill Winski My writing group pointed out that in my fiction I often invent certain words that, they felt, don't necessarily work that well!
  
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- Princess Poetry It tells me a lot about myself I had no idea existed. Good and bad. Parallels I wouldn't have found otherwise, ect.
  
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- Jill Winski That's really cool, Princess Poetry!
  
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- Dawn Herring Parallels, oh, I love that Word, Princess Poetry. That can say a whole lot, like different dimensions.
  
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- Princess Poetry I know! I wish I'd tried this earlier than I did.
  
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- Princess Poetry Oh yeah!! Parallels is one of my favorite words. It's SO MUCH MORE than a word
  
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- Jill Winski I love "parallels" too.
  
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