Dear Lovely Reader,

Welcome to the Pathways of Connection community!

Where you foster curiosity to create spaces for self-awareness, guidance through dreams, and imagining your preferred stories through journaling.

A community for creativity, emotional release, re-authoring your story, and beginning again.

Life gets busy. We forget our soulful intentions. Journaling stills us into a Pause Place where we remember who we are, what we did, why it matters, and what we want to repeat because it brings us joy or remove because it no longer serves.

No matter what path you’re on, we can connect through words in a working space of authenticity, curiosity, and kindness.

Pathways of Connection offers you journal techniques, adventurous dream travels, and imaginative storytelling to support your journal journey. You are the expert of your own life. I’m your GPS (Grateful Personalized Supporter).

Grateful to be part of your journey.

Personalized to what serves your highest and greatest good.

Supporter of you as the expert of your path and story.

Subscribe for Free or Support my Full-time Profession with a Paid Subscription.

You have access to:

  • 💜 Journal Your Way: Journal techniques with stories and prompts.

  • 💚 The Pause Place: The space between grief and hope. Journaling to carry you through loss, big life changes, and hold you in hope.

  • 🧡 Dream Travels: Remember and understand your dreams to guide your daily life. Dream stories and astral adventures!

  • All articles include an audio option.

Annual Paid Subscribers:

🖊️ Articles with audio to Journal Your Way, The Pause Place, Dream Travels

🖊️ Monthly Virtual Janine’s Journal Jam

🖊️ Exclusive excerpts from my memoir in progress (opportunity to interact) (Starting in July 2025)

Journal Members:

🖊️ Articles with audio to Journal Your Way, The Pause Place, Dream Travels

🖊️ Monthly Virtual Janine’s Journal Jam: Check-in, guided prompt, and community

🖊️ Exclusive excerpts from my 💛 memoir in progress (opportunity to interact) (starting in July 2025)

🎁 Choice of Journal or Dream Box (currently only mailed in US)

💡 1-hour consult with choice of:

💜 Journal Practice

🧡 Dream Guidance

❤️ Writing Fiction or Memoir

Why Now you Ask?

There’s a need for connection and curiosity in an open-hearted space. A desire to be more intentional and clearer on what moves us and to be in community with kind and compassionate people.

We stand for one another by sharing how we are moved by our preferred stories and holding space when those old stories creep onto our paths like prickly vines.

Journaling allows us to record, remember, and reflect in order to release, prioritize what matters, and bring in hope.

I’m a journaler, author, dream guide, energy healer, and teacher.

Through my publishing company, Highland Mountain Publishing, LLC, I’ve published seven award-winning books ranging from middle grade and Young Adult fantasy to non-fiction. I’ve taught journaling and creative writing in schools, libraries, senior centers, and online. You can read more about me and my services/programs outside of Substack at www.pathwaysofconnection.com

I’ve been riding motorcycles for over 30 years and dirt bikes since I was a child. My family rides together and, on a sunny day you’ll see 10 of us cruising on back roads. My husband, son, and I are avid Manchester United Football (soccer) fans! His fiancée is a Chelsea F. C. fan AND that’s OK! We still love her! My greatest joy is watching the games together but only after we have predicted line-ups. My family and I live in Upstate, NY, USA.

Along your Pathways of Connection:

May your vibrations be high.

May your light shine bright.

May your path be clear.

May your stories reflect who YOU are!

Honored to walk your path with you,

Janine

PS. If you’re at a crossroads or beginning of a new journey and desire a clear and direct way to understand what matters, subscribe however serves you best.

PSS. Thank you for supporting my writing! I appreciate you!

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Award-winning author. She entwines energy healing, dream guidance, narrative therapy and journaling to create authentic spaces. She loves Manchester United football and riding her motorcycle with her family.
Recovering dieter, mountain biker, and midlife adventurer. Former editor of the Austin American-Statesman’s Statesman.com and Austin360.com, and co-author of Show Your Work. Finding my feelings after a lifetime of eating them.