Simple beliefs that hold true

A journaling exercise

When cleaning a deep, dark and very dusty closet recently, I found a little blue notebook that I wrote in when my friend Rebecca Vlasic and I conducted journaling workshops at a women’s shelter in Pontiac, sometime around 2000. In the workshop, we discussed the value of keeping a personal journal of goals, aspirations, accomplishments, likes and dislikes, and good memories. We wrote along with the women.

I found one titled “Beliefs.” For this exercise, we asked...