Blogging about blogging
So I have been teaching some journaling workshops thought I would share about blogging. Certainly I am not an expert, but wanted to offer possible direction for how to blog for those who might like that. Take what you like and leave the rest.
Basically, you have several ways of approaching it. As you can see when you visit different blogs, each person writes about a different thing in a different way.
You can do free-flow…you start writing and see where it goes. It may not even make perfect sense or may sound like rambling. There is nothing wrong with that. It is simply a form of journaling…and a valuable one at that!
You can also pick a topic and see where your writing takes you. That for me is a way of letting my abstract thoughts find form on the page. This is where the inner wisdom that we didn’t realize we had comes up through our words occasionally and shows itself to us. For example, I may want to explore the idea of how self-love and weight loss are connected. I just let the thoughts fall onto the page.
Some people find a more structured approach more suitable for them. They may choose to have a log of food, exercise, goals, gratitudes, affirmations that work for them, ways to nurture themselves or solutions for how to avoid potentially difficult times with food. This might also include a blog that someone works on over the course of some time, edits it carefully and makes sure it is polished.
Some blogs may be a kind of report. The account may include the story of your day, the story of your life, a way of venting about something difficult or a celebration of some large or small success.
Certainly there are more ways to blog than this, and I would love to have others add to this to help inspire one another on ways to do what we do here.
The other part of this is to address WHY we blog. Again, there are a number of reasons. For some of us it is about accountability to ourselves or our community, for some of us it is about the catharsis of getting what is in us OUT of us. Some blog to be in dialog with another (I think of this as communication and in a way as communion).
And there’s the reason I do it. It reminds me of what I have learned and how I have grown and helps me see that I am as worthy of those who blog with me. If you can do it, I can do it. If I share what is going on with me, you and I BOTH won’t feel so alone.
It is a way of creating our reality so to speak. If I say….this is who I am and this is what I think…you respond to that….and I think…HOLY COW! They believe in me…maybe I could believe in myself. Cool, huh?
Let me know what I may have left out!
Happy Blogging,
Rae
Sounds very true. I find that if you just look at my blog,it can be a different type each day. And don’t even get me started on my myspace blog. Sometimes that blog is even a way to let someone know that I am upset. But that is passive aggressive, and I’m trying not to do that anymore. Thanks for your thoughts. It’s nice to see others truly using their blogs.
Thank you for sharing.
I know my blogs are my way of sharing, and venting for myself. Sometimes it is a cry for help when I need to vent and hope someone can help me if they have had a similar experience. Sometimes it is about something I have found that works for me and I want to share. Sometimes it is something I hope will inspire and motivate someone else.
Have a great day!
HUGS
Rae thank you for taking the time to write this informative and inspiring blog. For anyone who reads my blogs they know that writing is a passion for me. I love to write because it is easier for me to express myself in writing than it is to speak. Because I am bilingual (English and French) when I am speaking to someone in person it is not unusual to hear, “what is your accent, French right?”. That is said many times in a demeaning way and that hurts my feelings because I feel I am not being taken seriously. Writing I can take the time to collect my thoughts and edit my spelling and vocabulary whenever I wish to. I love to write because I never know where He is going to take me and how my audience will respond to what I have written. I get very excited about their input and I often learn so much from it. I get a big kick out of encouraging everyone to put their feelings on paper. Luv ya! sistas! and mistas!