Writing for Bliss: A Companion Journal is the creative guidebook companion to the award-winning book Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Plan for Telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life. Developed for the seasoned storyteller as well as the emerging author, this interactive journal is designed to be used alone as a self-discovery workbook, or in conjunction with Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Plan for Telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life. Award-winning memoirist, poet, and teacher Diana Raab incorporates writing prompts, exploratory exercises, and inspirational quotes to lead you through the healing and transformational process of telling the story only you can tell—a story that is yours alone. In Writing for Bliss: A Companion Journal, you will:

• Find more than 184 pages of unique, actionable writing prompts and exercises
• Move at your own pace—navigating the landscape of your life authentically, guided by Diana s gentle approach
• Identify and explore pivotal life-changing scenes that have led you to this very moment
• Heal your wounded self and transform your life through the writing process
• Praise for the work of Diana Raab: By listening to ourselves and being aware of what we are saying and feeling, the true story of our life s past experience is revealed. Diana Raab s book gives us the insights by which we can achieve this through her life-coaching wisdom and our writing. —BERNIE SIEGEL, MD, author of The Art of Healing Only a talented writer who has fought hard to overcome life s many obstacles could take her readers by the hand and lead them through the writing process with such enormous compassion, amazing insight, and kindness. Diana Raab is a powerful, wise, intelligent guide well worth our following. —JAMES BROWN, author of The Los Angeles Diaries and The River DIANA RAAB, PhD, is an award-winning memoirist, poet, blogger, workshop facilitator, thought provoker, and survivor. She is the author of eight books, including Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Plan for Telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life, and over one thousand articles and poems. Raab is a regular contributor to Psychology Today, Thrive Global, and others. She leads monthly in-person workshops throughout the country and offers a memoir writing course through DailyOM. She lives in Southern California.