!!!Question!!!
Added 2025-06-07 18:46:01 +0000 UTCCurrently working on all of the highly anticipated content, but I have a random question!! Do any of you guys journal?ππ BE HONEST!π And feel free to comment below how journaling has helped you if you doπ«ΆπΎ
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I have 75 journals and I canβt keep writing in any of them. I know itβs soo good for you to get thoughts out and it can help process things, but just canβt keep going for some reason. I used to write every day because I used to write poetry and the best way I found to write poetry is to make yourself write every day and pick out some nuggets from the entries. I donβt know why I stopped, and now I canβt seem to connect to it like I used to.
Becca
2025-06-17 15:33:38 +0000 UTCYes! I have been journaling from age 13-14, and I'm 40. Sometimes I do it every day; other times I will go weeks or months without visiting the pages, if I'm really busy. My mindset for my journals is complete and total privacy, for no one to see, don't have to worry about what it looks like at all, and I am talking to myself. I usually start an entry with how I'm feeling (years of entries starting "I'm exhausted" lol), it helps me progress into what has been happening, and then I get to what my thoughts are, and I start asking myself questions and teasing out what it going on in my head. It is certifiably the BEST way to help me feel better and calmer. I will say that when I read them back, I find them mindnumbingly boring and repetitive unless I am being explicit about people, events, things I've done. But my primary purpose for them is staying in the present moment with whatever is going on in my brain, and trying to get it all out, to simplify my thoughts. IT WORKS. I loved Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg when I was early in the process. More recently I read The New Diary by Tristine Rainer which I thought was a fantastic exploration of the different ways you can approach journaling, and fabulous for beginners! Lastly I will say - cheaper notebooks will always be more approachable than expensive ones; so much less pressure to say something ~*important*~ in a $2 one subject college ruled spiral from Walmart than a $22 Moleskine from B&N!
Michelle
2025-06-10 16:39:29 +0000 UTC
