Are you a writer in a rut? Want to tell your stories but don’t know where to start? Journaling as Sacred Practice: An Act of Extreme Bravery is like a year’s apprenticeship to an award-winning writer and creative mentor. The weekly creative challenges and inspired guidance will help shift the writer from the center of the action to center of the soul. Each chapter is a love letter to the art of creative writing, where both the fledgling writer and the seasoned scribe will find encouragement, advice, and lessons in the craft of journaling. Cynthia Gregory's book will inspire you to pick up the pen and go exploring, to fill your senses and your pages with the beautiful world around you. Praise for Journaling as Sacred Practice Cynthia Gregory is one of the finest writers I know. Her Journaling as Sacred Practice is elegant and will enchant writers as well as readers. -- Jo-Ann Mapson, LA Times bestselling author of Blue Rodeo, Solomon's Oak, and the forthcoming Love, Fred Astair. Each chaper is filled with exercises that are insightful, wise, and touched with humor. . .Journaling as Sacred Practice is an indispensable guide for the novice writer and for the published professional. -- Sandra Giedeman, author of In this Hour, Pushcart Prize nominee and past-president of O.C. PEN chapterI am completely inspired by Cynthia Gregory's book. Her creative challenges and writing samples are a delight. . .she has given me new juice to journal creatively with humor and insight. --Becca Pronchick, author of No Matter the Question, Meditation is the Answer Cynthia Gregory, MFA is an award winning author of short stories. Her work has appeared in various publications including The Sun, Glimmer Train, the Briar Cliff Review, Santa Barbara Review, The Ear, and Central PA. She was awarded second place in Writers Digest annual fiction contest, first place in the Glimmer Train Family Matters short story competition, and first place in the Mark Twain Short Fiction Prize. She is author of the blog, "Persephone's Step-Sisters," and writes a monthly review of debut novels. She has taught writing for Rabbit Hill Writers, Web Del Sol, and University of Phoenix. Cynthia lives in California's Napa Valley with her rescue pup, Winston, and dreams of the wild river valleys of the Pacific Northwest.