Review: Discovering insights----hers and mine.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 12, 2012
I bought this book because the title intrigued me. "What? There's more than just sitting down and writing? Four methods?  Hmmmm." I am so glad I bought it.Firstly, this is an extremely well formatted book which makes it easy and a joy to read. There are many images to complement the text.Secondly, the author weaves instructions for each method with her personal story. She has been an adventurous woman so learning is never dull. It's like unwrapping a gift and discovering insights---hers and mine.As I got deeper into the chapters, I totally reversed that first thought that writing journals would be mundane. My involuntary thoughts were now thinking about how and what I would be writing leaving out my own adventures that I might not care to share or revisit. However, this author gently teaches how to handle what you feel even if it's not all sunshine and jelly beans.Even better are the review steps at the end of each chapter. It's easy enough to progress with the day by day guidance but those of us who regularly schedule 20 hour days might skip something and those reviews can bring us back to earth.My favorite method is the Autobiographical Journal with its graphs, quadrants, and colors. For those of us that like order and structure, this is perfect. My assistant, who also read the book, particularly likes the List of Resources at the end of the book and is now shopping for our new books and writing tools which I didn't order but the book suggests so perhaps, with all this help and tools, our whirling minds can dare to imagine peace.