Is it useful to form a journal writing group?
Somehow it seems easier to write every day when you have a group of people who you know are also writing. What is most important, however, is that the group meets to discuss the process of journal writing and not the material in the journals. Some things work better than others to facilitate the process, and it is valuable to explore this. With the focus on healing, it can be useful to discuss how you went about including certain material in the entry, but the moment the discussion turns into one-upman-ship, the healing values are gone. Discussing different ideas which come up during journal writing is another way to extend the idea of healing within the group.
