I’m Judy
I help people use journaling (and other techniques)
to find their joy,
embrace their peace,
and map their way forward with purpose.
Join me, here on the blog, or in my classes and community, to practice designing and creating the life you want to live.
A Journaling Community with Classes!
Daily journal prompts and new journaling and creative classes posted every month
Coming soon in March, “Writing to Calm the Anxious Mind.” A Journaling Class that will help guide you through writing exercises to get you through those awful anxious moments, and a plan to help you prepare for, and move forward through those difficult days.
On the Blog
CoffeeJitters Blog Posts
- 16 Year Cancerversary, and finding my way back to hope16 years ago, today, I got that call. The one where the doctor says, “I’m sorry, it’s cancer.” That was the moment that turned my life upside down. Standing outside a coffee shop with the phone pressed against one ear, and my finger plugging the other ear because of traffic noise, I asked her to […]
- Making Friends with My GriefA conversation with my daughter about the grandfather she never met helped us both heal.
- How Adding Limits can Supercharge Creativity: the 3-Marker ChallengeI love watching kids create. They naturally come up with these little tricks to supercharge creativity, and they don’t even know they’re doing it. We just returned from a Washington Coast getaway with family, and as usual, the kids taught me a thing or two about creativity. Really, I think we can learn a lot […]
- How Comparing Pain Multiplies SufferingShe wanted to talk to me about cancer, but she hesitated. She was worried because she thought her cancer wasn’t as bad as mine. When I finally realized the reason for the hesitation, for the trepidation in her voice, my heart dropped. She had just apologized because she thought her cancer wasn’t bad enough. No […]
- How Not to Say the Wrong Thing When Someone is Grieving – and what to say insteadWhy is it so easy to say the wrong thing when someone is grieving? Death is universal. It happens everywhere, and eventually, to everyone. Why are we not taught, from childhood, how to respond when someone experiences a loss? It’s such a challenge, and for the most part, we really don’t know how to deal […]
Went to the Burke Museum a couple weeks ago. It's such an amazing space, and well worth the visit.
3 weeks ago
For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Happy New Year!! 🎉
4 months ago
