Voice Recording Journaling
I am excited to announce a new counseling course I am offering.
The group will be called:
Voice Recorder Journaling, The Art of Loving, Healing, Self-Dialogue…Alias, Talking the Blues.
Group members will use ‘voice recorder journaling’ as a tool to develop honest and healing self-dialogue. Participants will learn:
- To identify and change negative self-talk
- To build supportive and encouraging inner-dialogue
- To build positive self-esteem
- To overcome depression and anxiety
- To validate and explore our feelings and needs
- To use re-parenting concepts for healing past wounds
- To develop a loving and wise perspective from which to guide our lives
Journaling is considered to be one of the most important tools a client can use as they struggle to grow and change. Many people continue to journal long after they have discontinued therapy. Journaling is a way to reflect on things that are important and to stay in touch with our inner-selves. In similar ways, “voice recorder journaling” can be an invaluable tool in our quest to know ourselves more deeply and to resolve inner-conflict. But “voice recorder journaling” has some distinct advantages.
- Most people talk much faster than they can write (personally, it would take me hours to write out things that I could verbalize in 10-15 minutes).
- Many people have learned to hide their feelings. Learning to express our emotions with words can be difficult. If we can talk into a digital voice recorder when we are alone, when we are safe from criticism, it can then become easier to share our feelings with others.
- Once we finish recording an emotion, we can then emotionally detach and step into a wise, logical perspective. We can then listen to our recording as if we were listening to a good friend. In a new and interesting way, we can learn to respond to ourselves from a clear and more loving perspective. We can actually learn to dialogue with ourselves. The apostle Paul tells us in Philippians 2:5 that we are to “Have this same attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus.” Jesus’ attitude can be summed up in one word, love. How would “unconditional love” listen to and care for the person (me) who expressed their feelings on their recorder? How would love respond to them?
These and many other ideas/assignments, will allow group members to grow in deep and creative ways. Most people need more than another good idea from another self-help book. We need to be honest, we need validation, acceptance, and encouragement…we need freedom, and most of all, we need unconditional love. We can learn to love more deeply by stepping into “the Mind of Christ”. He is wise and compassionate and can heal all things. So let’s learn together how to put on a perspective of love that will change our lives and our relationships.