What are some of the emotional benefits of journaling?
It’s a safe place to scream. It’s a place to release tension and frustration. In a journal, we can explore deeply personal issues that are too frightening or shame-based to talk about. We can tell the same story over and over and over, beyond the place where our friends and family can tolerate hearing about it. It builds self-confidence and gives us strength to take action. It connects us with the deepest parts of ourselves, the parts that know our truth and love us and want us to succeed. The emotional benefits are endless. As a clinical journal therapist who teaches people in emotional pain how to write their way through to the other side, I know this. Do you have any journaling regrets? If so, what are they? How would you change them? I would dearly love to have my journals, diaries, letters, stories and poems from my earlier life. I’ve saved just about everything for the last 15 years. Before that, I’d get into cleaning frenzies and throw entire boxes of things away. I also deeply
