What does reflexive writing mean?

Reflexive writing is a learning and/or research technique, in which the author combines their own personal experience with critical thought and observation in order to develop a more complete and engaging analysis of an experience.

Reflexive writing is most commonly used in conjunction with narrative analysis and auto-ethnographic studies, as it is within these contexts that the dual nature of an author as both observer and effector/subject has the greatest prevalence, making the need to consider the authors effect upon the subject, perceptions of the subject and/or nature as the subject themselves as a apart of their analysis.