I believe that journaling can be a highly transformative and deeply healing experience, connecting us with our Souls, Higher Selves, and Spirit Teams. So when
shared her idea to write about Journaling with Your Inner Healer with me, I knew it would be a perfect fit for the Soul Journaling Sessions Podcast.In this episode, Grace speaks directly from personal experience on how journaling can connect you with your inner healer. She shares with us what the inner healer is, what it needs, and what it’s like to access it through journaling. She then offers us four journal prompts to help us connect with the healer within.
I hope you gain valuable insights from this episode, and as always, please feel free to share your thoughts or questions with us in the comments below.
About Grace
Grace is a passionate mentor, writer, and holistic healer specializing in yoga, mental health, well-being coaching, and spiritual growth. Grace is known for her infectious smile and laughter. She guides you on your healing journey toward deep, sustainable transformation through mindset shifts, intentional action, and emotional healing—one step at a time.
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Hey sweet soul, I am Grace. Only in the last few years have I learnt how to treat myself with grace, ironically enough! I was always a loving daughter, sister, and friend, putting others first was what I knew best. Even my yoga students and coaching clients – I gave them my all because I am a helper at heart.
Amid putting others first, I forgot about myself. I didn’t give myself the love, space, and time I needed to heal and ended up in a dark place. When battling depression and psychosis, I was in a pit of guilt and found it hard to admit. “Now look at you, a passionate mentor suffering, nobody is going to trust you anymore” were words that went through my mind.
I was admitted into the psychiatric clinic for half a year. The place nor medication aren’t what healed me, but nature and my way back to writing again. You see, in this phase of my life, I knew all the tools in my box that would soothe my mind, but I couldn’t bring myself to do yoga or anything good for myself. If you have suffered mental health issues, you will get me.
Until eventually, I started writing myself letters and journaling again. I would write to myself as if I were a friend or loved one. This was the only way I could fathom some love for myself. I then noticed the power of writing and how coming forth in my vulnerability helped me heal. There was a switch, a center within that I accessed.
I believe we all have an inner healer inside – it is even proven. Journaling can be one of the paths to take to access it because it is all about activating the right side of your brain where creativity is concentrated.
What is your inner healer?
We all have one, it is up to you to tune out from the noise and tune within to your silence, your peace awaiting you to find stillness and no more stress. In our daily lives, we are attuned to society’s hustle and bustle, but we must find our way back within so we can be in balance.
Why do you think there is a rise in mental health issues and suicides worldwide? We have lost the ability to attune to our inner healer, our inner peace. With so many to-dos and digital distractions, we become numb instead of at ease, we are on autopilot instead of actively participating in a joyful life.
Your inner healer is your innate ability to feel, deal, and heal. Both physically and emotionally, we all attain this ability. Journaling has proven to work like therapy, so when you are able to write down your emotions and enter a state of forgiveness and shedding of the past, you can access your inner healer too.
How to access your inner healer with journaling
I healed myself through writing. It has always been my tool for making sense of situations, my emotions, and the world. Since I can remember, I journeyed into journaling to escape my misunderstandings and learn my dealings.
There is no one rule or framework you must take to access your inner healer with journaling, but there are of course, prompts and reflections that can take you there. I wrote a Self-Healing Journal adapted from my self-help book, Chill out and cheer up’s ten chapters, so that you can chill out and colour in.
In every chapter, from greed to nature, there are prompts that help guide you in achieving your inner peace by speaking with your inner healer that always wants to work for you, not against you, I promise.
What does your inner healer need?
An array of things like acceptance, forgiveness, love, acknowledgement. When you can treat yourself with kindness, then your inner healer helps you find your peace again – that peace you once had but lost on the way.
We must stop “needing” or “shoulding” ourselves but let ourselves be. Do you sit down and reflect, ponder, or take time to be introspective? The more you do this, the more you can listen to your healer’s voice and act on it.
How will you feel when you journal with your inner healer?
You will feel at ease after a while. At first, it may feel uncomfortable, very emotional, but that just shows you are doing the work! To feel at peace, we must also dive deep into what our inner healer wants us to see to move forward with love.
Sometimes we must face our past versions of ourselves we don’t like and learn to love them like every version of ourselves needs to be shown love and forgiveness.
When you treat yourself with grace and journal with love, then you will start to feel lighter, brighter and more energetic. Not only that, but you will find purpose and meaning again. You will know that you are here to shine and not to refine yourself to be someone you are not meant to be anymore.
Your inner healer shows you your true self: LOVE.
Your Journal Prompts:
Reflect on how you may feel broken on the inside. We all have some broken pieces within. Is there something that you feel guilt or shame around? Most of the time, it can stem from our childhood and translate in our lives in ways like being a people pleaser or not being able to say no.
Journal about how you feel broken and become an onlooker – speak to yourself as if you are a child or a friend.
Reflect on how you used to be creative – this could just be one outlet like drawing, painting, or papier-mâché. Whatever it is, think about it. What did you enjoy getting lost in when you were younger and then life happened, and you had no time anymore?
Journal about how this creative outlet made you feel or how you would like to feel with a creative outlet – it could even be walking in nature. Reconnect with your inner healer and allow your creative side to lead the way by asking what it needs to nurture your inner healer.
Thank you to Grace for guest hosting and sharing the benefits of journaling with your Inner Healer!
After each episode of the podcast, I invite you to close out by tapping into the wisdom of your Soul, and asking the question:
Soul, what piece of wisdom from this session do you most need me to remember?
What about this episode most resonated with you? Share it with our Soul Journaling Circle.
And if this episode really spoke to you, give it a like, leave a comment, or send it along to anyone else who could benefit from it. Grace and I would greatly appreciate your support!
With much love and gratitude,
Marcy
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