Have you ever thought about using a journal?
If you think about using journaling as part of your wellness strategies, you may want to write down some goals first. Here are some suggestions on how others use their journal and how you might want to as well. In fact, when you put pen to paper it helps the swirling thoughts of anxiety get down in a linear format. Similarily, if you are struggling with depression, it can help you to identity thought distortions to begin challenging negative beliefs.
Potential Journaling Goals:
Understand my thoughts and feelings
Help in achieving life goals
Track mood changes
Improve depression
Allow you to understand life issues that affect my moods
Give myself credit for my progress
Get to know myself better
Grieve a loss
Explore dreams
Pinpoint and address stressors
Deepen creativity
Or for any other reasons you can think of
Next Start Journal Exercises: Start your writing by answering a question
Describe what I like about my myself is…
Explain what made me feel low today?
The best thing that ever happened to me was….
I feel angry that……
Write a letter to someone you would like to tell off but won’t send.
Make a list of all the reasons you want to be alive today
If I had one day to live, I would….
Create lists – things to do for self-care, what makes you happy or sad, why you feel stressed, etc.
Sometimes these prompts will help and other times I encourage you just to start writing, try to keep the internal critic off your back and just free flow. Just write what ever comes into your head. There is something therapeutic about putting pen to paper.
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