Venturing into Substack
Why I'm excited to be here and my offerings to you.
(You can listen to the audio version of this post in the audio bar above. Every Pathways of Connections’ post includes my audio.)
I love journaling. Everything I do stems from this practice which I've continued for over 40 years. For the past 28 years, I've kept a family journal to my boys, which is my Legacy of Love.
Journaling guided my writing 7 books that I published through my company, Highland Mountain Publishing, LLC.
To me, fiction softens the harshness of reality but journaling is my pause place that allows me to sit with my emotions and make meaning.
16 years ago, I lost my oldest son to leukemia. Writing held me afloat while I searched for ways to heal. Along the way I masked the pain by numbing and self-sabotage, yet the grief always clung to me.
My journey has included various trainings in dream guidance, yoga, Reiki, Narrative Therapy, and various energy healing. I’ve navigated a path to hope and understanding that while grief doesn’t end, I can live with my child in another way. That I can live my greatest life and miss my son.
11 years ago, I began to teach journal workshops using these various modalities. I felt and saw the impact of creating spaces where self-expression and shared stories created a connection. People made meaning of their lives and were able to write and live their preferred stories not hampered by the harshness of their lived experiences.
Yet I still longed to write. To find a way to share these techniques, my stories both personal and fiction.
I found Substack through The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad. She created this beautiful space for exploration, healing, and community.
I’m inspired to do the same in my way. To offer journal prompts, stories both personal and fantastical, and to grow a community where all the parts of me show up. Offering to you a path on how to create this space within yourself, on the pages of a journal, in your honesty and care for yourself. You are perfect exactly as you are and you matter. In this space you can express all and everything you need. I am your GPS (Grateful Personalized Supporter); you are the expert of your own life.
May I show up as my best for you and for myself every day.
I feel the energy of Substack and am excited to immerse myself within this community! I’m still learning so have patience with me.
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Janine’s Journal Jam: 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 what your sleep dreams in order to guide your daily life. Stories and astral adventures!
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Workshops to enhance your journal practice, expand your dream guidance, and imagine stories that reflect your preferred self.
Monthly Journal Jam with Janine
Check-in, guided prompt, and grow community
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Happy Journaling,
Janine