The Art of Journaling Podcast: Recent Episodes

Jonathan Akin

The podcast companion to Jonathan Akin's Art of Journaling program.

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Topics covered:

-Processing is making things real

-Words are a technology

-How are you anchored in time?

-Finding your way back to meaning

-The present is all you have to work with

-Personal study guides

-What is a book of hours?

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Topics covered:  

-Processing is making things real

-Words are a technology

-How are you anchored in time?

-Finding your way back to meaning

-The present is all you have to work with

-Personal study guides -What is a book of hours?

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What happens when a teacher of journaling and a rhetorician talk about journaling?

Topics covered:  

-Making choices about your thoughts

-Setting your thoughts aside then revisiting them

-Handwritten journaling vs digital

-Taking pride in your past self

-Words and your personal technology

-A textbook on yourself

-Unexamined thoughts

-Journaling isn’t cute

-Isaac hates Avocado…or does he?

-Liars who don’t want to be

-Making yourself an ally with truth

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What happens when a teacher of journaling and a teacher of penmanship talk about journaling?

Topics covered:  

-Journals vs diaries

-Journaling and therapy

-The naive girl and the emo kid

-Diaries and scrapbooking

-Memoirs -How to keep your torch blazing strong

-The relationship between journaling, posture, & handwriting

-The mysterious master penman

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What happens when a journaling expert and a helicopter pilot talk about journaling? 

Topics covered:

-Finding meaning in life

-People who don't like journaling

-Words and demons

-English class trauma

-The limits of conversation

-Curating thoughts

-How do you use your notes app?

-Expanding your jots

-Language arts as weapons for the mind

-Having something to say

-Sheeple and bandwagons

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Two thoughtful friendly people talk about journaling. One is a journaling expert and the other is a writer.

Topics covered:

-What is journaling?

-Some misconceptions about journaling

-Deep thought

-Journaling and music

-Journaling during the lockdown

-Soliloquy, conversation, and correspondence