10/10 emotional processing technique. if you find it hard, I’d use journaling prompts. helps you to feel what you need to feel then move forward.
Apr 8, 2024
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you can be as sad or angry or sappy as you want, the journal will never judge you and it’ll help your brain hit the refresh button. The writing doesn’t even have to make sense or look legible just get the thoughts out!
In post- breakup journaling I found it helps to use it as letters you’ll never send to that person.
Also! As time goes on you can check on your own progress by reading previous entries and thinking wow I feel way better than I used to☀️
Apr 21, 2024
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Been having lots of big emotions lately because of my personal life and my job. Between therapy sessions it’s hard to manage them so I’ve been journaling when I feel overwhelmed and it has been super helpful.
May 2, 2024
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really hated “journaling” as a kid /teen because it always felt like a chore; part of that was not knowing how (or even particularly wanting) to get in touch with my emotions at that age, but today i journal almost exclusively when im overwhelmed, by positive or “negative” emotions, to be able to actually feel them and engage with them instead of being physiologically beholden to them over the course of a day until my body has processed the feeling instead of my mind. Doing this ~weekly or even bi-weekly (whenever im called to) has given me such a sense of relief and control in a way that makes me wish i wasn’t so resistant to it in my youth. taking the time to make the unsaid said on the page is top 5 ways to know yourself fr
trying to get into the practice of a nightly gratitude journal as well (using a guided journal), when i do the entries it’s definitely “effective” (gratitude is def an emotion that suffers a lot from bouncing around your noggin “unsaid”) but daily journaling still feels chore-y 🥲
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we all need to be humbled sometimes
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