10 exercises to get you started
  • Write two pages of something you can't deny.

  • Write two pages of what got left behind.

  • Write two pages of something you wrote or did that you no longer understand.

  • Write two pages of apologizing for something you didn't do.

  • Write two pages about a physical characteristic you are proud to have inherited or passed on.

  • Write two pages of what you had to have.

  • Write two pages of humiliating exposure.

  • Write two pages about a time when you felt compassion unexpectedly.

  • Write two pages of what you have too much of.

  • Write two pages of when you knew you were in trouble.
From the August 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine