A guided journal that provides writing techniques and exercises that are matched with Buddhist meditation instructions and teachings
BETH JACOBS, PhD, is a writer, psychologist, and Buddhist. She has been a supervising and private practice psychologist for thirty years after being trained at Northwestern University Medical School. She is also a Buddhist lay teacher in the Soto Zen tradition. Her psychological perspective led to a body of writing about therapeutic journaling, including the book Writing for Emotional Balance (New Harbinger Publishers, 2005), many articles, webinars and workshops, and a seasonal column for the National Association for Poetry Therapy, for which she received an Outstanding Achievement Award in 2016. She also wrote a fictional novella entitled Paper Sky- What Happened After Anne Frank's Diary Ended (CreateSpace, 2014). She has received the following residency awards for her writing- Renaissance House Writers Residency, June 2014; Ragdale Foundation Artist Residency, September 2013; and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts Fellow, artist-in-residence, July 2012. Jacobs' more recent work has focused on original Buddhist studies with the publication of The Original Buddhist Psychology- What the Abhidharma Tells Us About How We Think, Feel, and Experience Life (North Atlantic Books, 2017).
“In this intelligent and sensitive work, Beth Jacobs blends two
mindfulness practices—insight meditation and expressive
writing—while honoring the principles of each. Dozens of
beautifully designed processes introduce writing to meditators and
meditation to writers with a synergy that elevates both. The result
is a work rooted in evidence-based theory and standards-based
practice, infused with a palpable devotion. A welcome and deeply
needed addition to the literature in journal therapy.”
—Kathleen Adams MA, LPC, director of the Center for Journal
Therapy, author of Journal to the Self, and editor of Expressive
Writing: Foundations of Practice
“I have been a journal writer for sixty years and have often
claimed it as my primary form of meditation. From within her long
practice of Zen, Beth Jacobs now braids how words can lead to
wordlessness; wordlessness can lead to words. There is a languid
dance where the veil of language can be wafted aside by attention
to breath. Trust this dance, and Jacobs’s guidance in it; you will
learn about Buddhism and journal writing—and, of course, about
yourself.”
—Christina Baldwin, author of Life’s Companion, Journal Writing as
Spiritual Practice and Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives
through the Power and Practice of Story
“Beth Jacobs provides the reader with a roadmap to our own
creativity from the Zen perspective. Her work is both seriously
playful and playfully serious, informative and performative, and
will go straight to the heart of the reader/writer and meditator
who dives into the exercises that Dr. Jacobs generously
offers.”
—Seiso Paul Cooper, author of The Zen Impulse and the
Psychoanalytic Encounter and Zen Insight, Psychoanalytic Action:
Two Arrows Meeting
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