The Middle Way Method
Where Top-Down Meets Bottom-Up
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Closing the Loop: Integrating Insights
Last week, we explored how to find your natural journaling rhythm and create a sustainable reflection practice that fits your life. We looked at ways to integrate journaling into daily, weekly, or as-needed routines, and how micro-sessions or longer entries can both contribute to insight and clarity. If you missed...
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Closing the Loop: Turning Insights into Progress
Last week, we explored how to build a sustainable journaling rhythm that supports self-reflection, awareness, and clarity (Journaling Rhythm: Building Sustainable Reflection). A consistent, flexible rhythm helps you notice patterns, track progress, and gain insights into your daily thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. It’s not about rigid habit; it’s about connection,...
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Journaling Rhythm: Building a Sustainable Reflection Practice
In our previous article, we explored several journaling frameworks designed to support clarity and insight. We looked at freeform journaling, prompt-based approaches, list-making, mind mapping, and gratitude practices—each offering a unique way to engage with your thoughts, feelings, and experiences. These frameworks provide structure when needed while leaving room for...
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Journaling Approaches: From Insight to Clarity to Action
In last week’s article, “Reflection: Why Journaling Matters”, we explored how journaling serves as a tool for awareness and clarity. We discussed how it creates space to notice thoughts and feelings, uncover patterns, and reconnect with the self behind the system. Journaling is framed not as a productivity task, but...
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Reflection: Why Journaling Matters
Last week, we explored journaling as a tool for awareness and clarity in Journaling for Awareness: Making Space to See, Feel, and Think Clearly. We saw how journaling creates space to notice thoughts and feelings, uncover patterns, and reconnect with the self behind the system. Rather than a productivity task,...