The site Women’s Memoirs is offering a free 22-page book, Journaling Essentials: Everything You Need to Know to Start by Amber Lea Starfire.

Here’s what’s in the guide includes: 
Seven Wonderful Benefits of Journaling: Each benefit comes with an exercise and space to conduct the exercise. The benefits Starfire discusses are:

1. Self-Care
2. Catharsis and Emotional Healing
3. Clarity
4. Making Meaning of the Meaningless
5. Personal Growth
6. Holding Onto Memories
7. Sharing Memories: Writing for Others
8. Enhanced Creativity

Starfire offers chapters on Getting Started and Staying Started, with exercises for both, along with a piece called Schedule a Time Just for YOU.

Noting that there are really no rules, just guidelines, she offers guidelines in a chapter called Rules of Journal Writing.

My favorite chapter includes 20 Writing Prompts and also offers Inspirational Quotes

Finally, Starfire provides a small collection of links to The Journal Writing Community.

Download the guide here. (Look for a box with the book cover on the right side of the page; enter your name and e-mail address to download the PDF.)