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About Janet Conner, author of Writing Down Your Soul
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Janet Conner did not set out to be a spiritual writer or teacher. She earned a BS from Marquette University in Speech Pathology and an MA in Education of the Deaf from Northwestern University. Her first career was in special education. In 1982, she created the first videojournalist recruitment program at CNN. After she and her husband moved to Florida, she ran a division of an international search firm. |
But then, everything changed
In 1997, in the midst of a lucrative consulting career, her marriage imploded and her life disintegrated overnight into wearing a police call necklace, keeping 911 predialed on her cell phone, and occasionally taking her young son into hiding. Out of sheer desperation, Janet poured her soul onto her journal every morning, describing what was happening in ghastly detail and demanding--demanding!--help.
Here's the important part of the story: Help came. Every day. Sometimes in the form of direction, but often in the guise of questions she hadn't been willing to ask. Janet discovered that when she asked hard questions, the voice responded with rich, profound guidance.
Like Hansel in the fairytale, Janet faithfully followed those bits of wisdom until, three years later, she and her son were safe, her business was restored to six figures, and she was able to purchase a new townhome. Those were the changes the world could see, but Janet knew the really big changes were inside.
The gifts that came through deep soul writing
Through her daily soul writing, she discovered Spiritual Geography, the seven country spiritual-healing process that heals the broken heart. One Sunday in March, 2001, she had a deep conversation with the voice. "I am ready to forgive," she wrote, "show me how." That afternoon she wrote, "Finally Forgive," a prayer of complete and total forgiveness. When her ex-husband died three years later, she discovered that when she forgave him, he reinstated his lapsed life insurance, increased it, and named her beneficiary! When she held that check, Janet knew she was holding tangible proof of the power of writing down your soul to change your heart, your mind, and your entire life.
Janet realized that her deep soul writing practice was something more than journaling. Lots of people journal, but not a lot of people experience the clear guidance and profound miracles she experienced on the page. So Janet set out to investigate why. She wanted to know what happens in your body, mind, and spirit when you engage in deep soul writing. The result is Writing Down Your Soul: How to Activate and Listen to the Extraordinary Voice Within, coming this December from Conari Press.
Where else can you find Janet Conner?
Janet teaches workshops, teleclasses, and weekend retreats on Writing Down Your Soul. Click on Events to find her current classes.
Janet writes a weekly national column for UPI's Religion and Spirituality website on practical, universal spirituality. When you subscribe to the Writing Down Your Soul newsletter, you will also receive short emails with links to her columns.
Janet and the award-winning hypnotherapist, Debbie Lane CHt, also lead innovative, experiential workshops that combine the wisdom-inducing power of hypnosis and deep soul writing to create The Year of Your Dreams or manifest your soul's true love partner with The Real Love Potion #9 (hint, it's not what you drink, it's what you think).
Click here for more information on Janet's workshops and appearances.
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