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Journaling - The Write Stuff For You?

Just Want to Talk | Last Active: 3 days ago | Replies (476)
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@dougkeon

I guess the first person to tell (convince) if and when I start to journal (again) would be myself. I hear this over and over and over again; Journal, Journal, Journal. "It's good for you, it helps," etc. I've tried it, but when I go back and read what I was going through in the months/years before, I loose it, it makes me more depressed to re-read how I felt in the past. For me, journaling has been a bad experience... just feels like digging up bones and reliving the past pains, rather than letting it go and moving on. I'm stuck on the fence about this.

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Ginger, Volunteer Mentor | @gingerw | Dec 31, 2023

@dougkeon There is nothing demanding us to reread what we have written/taped once we have committed it to a medium. For me, just getting it out of my head has been tonic enough. A few times I have gone back and reread things, from several years ago. I am looking at the handwriting, and the hidden emotions there, beyond just the words. I have even taken graphology courses to learn about handwriting, to better understand what is going on "below the surface".

I am curious if you would try an experiment to simply journal and not go back to read what you have written. How would that make you feel? Is it worth a try?
Ginger

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