041: How To Use Guided Journaling To Support Your Clients With Alina Liao
The Uncommon Couch
041: How To Use Guided Journaling To Support Your Clients With Alina Liao
Looking for more approaches to integrate mental wellbeing into your practice? In this episode, I am joined by Alina Liao, Founder & CEO of Zenit. Zenit is a radical wellness company that creates custom journals and hosts journaling mini-retreats.
Alina started Zenit because she wanted to make mental health and wellness more accessible to everyone through the power of journaling. She shares how the daily practice of journaling can help your clients (and you!) to gain insights and process life’s changes.
She also gives advice for how to integrate journaling into your practice to support clients on their wellness journeys with tips on how you can incorporate the practice into your daily routine.
What you’ll find in this episode:
Why Alina wanted to make wellness more accessible through journaling
How change happens and the insight journals give you on life’s changes
What her wellness retreats consist of and who its for
The resistance that can come up when journaling
Alina’s tips for getting into journaling
How to integrate journaling with therapy clients
How she landed in this industry of mental health and wellness
About Alina:
Alina Liao is Founder & CEO of Zenit (zenitjournals.com), a radical wellness company with the mission to make wellness accessible to everyone. Having struggled with mental health challenges and the stigma around mental health, Alina views accessibility as building a world where everyone is free of the belief that “wellness isn’t for me - where we can all feel pride and joy in the work we do for our well-being. With Zenit, Alina makes customized wellness journals and provides journaling mini-retreats.
Prior to Zenit, Alina provided mental health coaching to youth of color exposed to trauma and built trauma-informed, culturally responsive, healing-centered training programs for coaches. Alina has a Master of Art in Education from Stanford and certifications in Supporting Students Exposed to Trauma by Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools and Mental Health First Aid by the National Alliance on Mental Health.
Connect with Alina:
Website | Instagram | Facebook
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