Welcome

I’m Judy Stone-Goldman, and I’ve been writing in my life ever since I can remember.  I wrote stories and poems as a child. I wrote bushels of letters home from summer camp. In school I wrote book reports and research papers and test essays.   In one year that I don’t care to revisit, I wrote a doctoral dissertation.  Throughout all of it, I also wrote personal journals.

Writing in my journals has been a way to talk to myself.  I comfort myself.  I record my life (I am devoted to memory).  I ruminate and evaluate and contemplate.  And I reflect.

Recently, I realized that the writing I was doing was my primary coping mechanism for dealing with the stressors that arose in my work, stressors that often came about when personal needs, feelings, and memories bumped up against my professional work.  I found that I became more aware of these issues as I wrote and arrived at surprising insights that helped me create more productive action plans.  I was depending on reflective writing for getting me through the confusing and tough experiences in daily life.  The writing didn’t make life perfect, but it certainly made me more confident and stable.

When I realized this, I decided to take this writing–the reflective writing that I’ve done forever–and develop it so others could join me in this wonderful process.  Thus was born The Reflective Writer.  With these words I now invite you to join me in reflective writing: “Each of us has the potential to construct a better life by uncovering and reflecting on our inner experience.”

WELCOME TO NEW READERS! I invite you to read the blog and leave your comments. Let me know how writing and reflecting work for you in your life.