Journaling for Women Ready to
Rise Strong and Rooted
Grounded in purpose and built with heart, Holistic Journaling empowers women to discover, grow, and rise into wholeness—one page at a time.
Here you'll experience positively transformational journaling designed by women, for women, who know the power of the pen. It's purposeful, beneficial and empowering.
Every course, workshop, and program brings together the neuroscience, psychology, and science of journaling to support women.
Ready to see what happens when pen meets purpose?
Dive in and discover how getting inky with us can nourish your soul and light your path.
Here's what's coming in 2027
Register before November 30th at midnight and save 10%.
Use code: NOV10 when you check out. 🖱️
Housecleaning--The Good Kind
No mops. No rubber gloves required.
A Monthly Journaling Workshop Series for Women
Every house collects things—usually LOTS of things. So does every woman's inner house.
A woman’s inner house is the living structure of her inner life: what she believes, feels, remembers, needs, protects, and hopes for. It isn’t one fixed floor plan. Each woman’s house is shaped by her own history—we collect and store old beliefs, other people's expectations, that thing our mother said years ago, and lots more in the corners of our personal attic.
This workshop series is where women can decide which rooms need renovating, opening, or a good airing out.
In 2027, we'll open one inner 'room' together each month, and you decide what stays, what goes, and what finally gets some fresh air.
We start January 31 with The Hall Closet: What No Longer Fits.
Morningtides
Weekly journaling in community.
Start your day with a pen, a prompt and a circle of women who get it.
Twice a week, women from around the world meet on Zoom, 🍵in one hand and a 🖊️ in the other (pajamas and wet hair optional!). Choose from original thought-provoking AHA!-inspiring prompts. Write for about 20 minutes, then share (as much or as little as you like) listen, and chat. No homework. No grades. Nobody checks your spelling. 😃
Leave leave clearer, lighter and more cheerful.
Come and give it a try; your first Morningtides huddle is free.
What women are saying about Holistic Journaling
" Jill is always thoughtful, respectful, an has a good ability to get class back on track. She always makes the courses relevant, informative, and interesting! This is the 7th course I’ve taken with Jill.
I would take any course she offered. "
Meet the Founder
Jill Grumbache, Founder and CIM (Chief Ink Motivator)
I am so happy you’re here. (I’m seriously doing a happy dance! But carefully, because I'm embarrassingly uncoordinated!)
I’m the Founder and Chief Ink Motivator of Holistic Journaling. You’ll usually find me 🖥️ clicking keys, sipping 🍵, and building programs and workshops for the phenomenal women in our growing community.
Maybe you typed something into a search bar, maybe a friend nudged you, maybe the universe led you to where you need to be right now. 😊🌌 However it happened, you’ve landed safely among a community of women who believe a blank page is one of the best listeners around and that a journal can be their best friend at the end of their pen.
Here, we write, laugh, discover, learn, and grow together. And somewhere beneath the to-do lists and everyone else’s opinions, you finally hear your own thoughts, and your Self beneath it all.
I’ve watched hundreds of women use journaling to realign, feel empowered, become gloriously grounded, tune inward, and embrace their innate beauty and brilliance. It never gets old!
I’m a Beneficial Journaling Expert who’s been journaling since before it was cool. I blend the magic of pen-to-page with neuroscience, psychology, and modern self-growth wisdom for you. My mission is simple: bring women from around the world together in community to connect, get inky, and use journaling as the powerful life-support tool it is proven to be.
Holistic Journaling is part science, part soul, and a healthy dose of laughing at life’s absurdities, because some days that’s the only reasonable response. So grab a pen, pull up a chair, and let’s ink your way to a more joyful, balanced, authentic you. I saved you a seat!
The official bits (a.k.a. my certifications):
Journaling Facilitation 🌍 Positive Psychology 🌍 Emotional Intelligence Coaching 🌍 Stress-Based Mindfulness Coaching 🌍 Life Purpose Coaching 🌍 Life Story Coaching 🌍 Art Therapy 🌍 Communications
"Scientific studies have shown
it to be essentially a panacea for modern life.
There are the obvious benefits, like a boost in mindfulness, memory and communication skills.
But studies have also found that writing in a journal can lead to better sleep, a stronger immune system, more self-confidence and a higher I.Q..."
I, as a writer and professor of writing, have witnessed repeatedly, up close: expressive writing can heal us.
A certain kind of guided, detailed writing can not only help us process what we’ve been through and assist us as we envision a path forward... Expressive writing (journaling) can result in a reduction in stress, anxiety, and depression; improve our sleep and performance; and bring us greater focus and clarity. These effects of writing as a tool for healing are well documented.
Journal writing...provides an opportunity for individuals to reflect on and analyze their lives, the events, and people surrounding them, and get in touch with their feelings. It is a therapy that requires individuals to be engaged in reflecting on and gaining insights about their lives and experiences...
Journaling is a holistic therapy because it involves all aspects of a person-physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Scholars have put forth multiple theoretical mechanisms by which journaling may produce beneficial outcomes.