A guided journey of self-expression, personal growth, and supportive reflection
The definitive guide to keeping a journal for personal growth: a perennial favourite fully updated.

Winner of the COVR Award (USA) Best Self-Help Book of the Year

'This gift of a book unlocked parts of me I didn't know existed' Donna M Cameron

'I have yearned for this insight and this how-to. It's changing everything.' Susana Lei'ataua

'Nourishment for the soul. Stephanie Dowrick is a marvellous writing mentor.these lessons helped unlock my writing life' Juliette O'Brien OAM

Journal writing is an unrivalled way to understand and appreciate your 'one precious life'.

Dr Stephanie Dowrick is an award-winning writer with a unique breadth of psychological insight and creative writing experience. Here she takes journal writing to a new level, sharing the gifts creative journal writing invariably gives:

Clarity, trust and self-understanding
A depth of self-encouragement impossible to achieve another way
Access to both sides of your brain for problem solving
Inner acceptance and calm
Creativity across your whole life
Understanding what motivates and drives you
Sharper focus
A chance to heal at your own pace

Through immediately rewarding prompts, Creative Journal Writing works for journal writers of all kinds and stages. As journal writer Oprah Winfrey says, 'Keeping a journal will absolutely change your life in ways you've never imagined.'