Journaling - The Write Stuff For You?

Don't worry about courage.
What you wrote earlier
will make you laugh, cry?, & wonder why certain things
were so important at the time. Or you may see how far you have come psychologically, emotionally,.....or not 🙂
Go for it! Good luck.

Believe it or not, ( the non-dominant hand writing and/ or drawing) it has helped cure some folk with
depression......well probably not "cure" but alieviate
some. See GRANDMA LAYTON I think from Kansas.

Do you sometimes wonder if you have the right pathway, or are doing what you can to help yourself? There are a couple of things I look forward to in my inbox, to help prompt me in my writings.

The Resilient Option, by Dr. Amit Sood is one of them. Five out of seven days each week, an email comes in with a perspective and insight, inviting me to think and write out my response to some words of wisdom.

The other one is https://mindfulmornings.club/ that sends out a newsletter after you have subscribed. Very thought provoking and helps me sit down to write on a topic.

There are times in our lives we want to change things up, and might feel hesitant to do so. We're comfortable where we are, something new can be scary, how successful will we be trying something new, etc, right?! Sometimes it is something small to make a change. I recently bought a new journal to write longhand in. It takes the place of a binder used since 2021, adding pages as I wrote on them. Doesn't sound like a lot, does it? But for now it has spurred me back to writing each day.

What little change have you done recently, that reignited the fire to write? Time of day? Where you write? A new pen? Tell us here!
Ginger

I'd been keeping a 1-line/sentence per day journal for a while as a file on my laptop. January 1 I got a pretty notebook and went back to long hand. I'm enjoying it more! The 1-line is a way for me to track how I'm feeling--mood, pain level, etc. But often it turns into a tiny poem about what I'm observing and enjoying day to day.

Hello to all

The weekend is here and it’s balmy but overall pleasant..we continue with more medical telemeds next week with my wife’s PCM…I have been praying 🙏 my short prayer over and over deeply… I want my soul to be open for God’s help and comfort, when I do this , something gets in…when I awake, my morning anxiety is strong and most unnerving.. I can’t think about not having my wife next to me…my dreadful thoughts of being alone in this world can overwhelm me…that is when I pray the most and get MOVING…she still needs to get her oral surgery done and some beautiful replacement teeth..it gets terribly lonely at times and that’s when I find myself saying such a sort prayer for God to please help me with my worry and fears…this Tuesday our PCM will hopefully address her new BP med issue with her and suggest an alternative..I saw a young lady yesterday on my way to the mall standing and walking back and forth along the cement barrier with a sign ‘please help
Chronic illness, homeless…’ whether it be true or something else,I thought what a horrible way for such a young lady to have to spend a hot muggy day waving to drivers and displaying her sign with her bag resting at the end of the cement barrier…and I thought as I drove by how lucky I have been….even in my most dire straits, I’ve never had to pan handle… it’s sad and we have a lot of it here where we live…I wish all that come here a safe healthy weekend and I will remember to be grateful for what I have…🙏pvctom

Hello to all,

I woke up this morning with the morning anxiety at max…my wife and myself arranged for her dentures to be ready around or on July 10th.. from dentist #1 on Tuesday 🙏 . We then arranged after yet another full mouth X-ray to have her teeth extracted under sedation on July 25th from dentist #2 on Thursday ✅ . Then Friday night she came down with some kind of bug…she is on a new BP med and a medicine for high uric acid content that she’s been taking for gout…I feel helpless…
I am trying to persuade her to go to the urgent care or the ER here.. but she wants to confer with her doctor by telephone ☎️ today..her symptoms are extreme fatigue, chills that come and go, chronic joint pain …hip, back, feet everywhere… then it lets up… very little appetite..all this since Friday… maybe she picked up something at one of the two dentist offices or at the mall where she waited for me Thursday….this heat wave doesn’t help anybody either…I’m going to check on her now, then go do the errands and pray my short prayer for God to help me and my wife…Again I have to always try and remember how fortunate I am for what I do have and be and feel grateful …still….so many people out there hurting…. I will get moving and be mindful of the heat index out there…I hope and wish you a safe and peaceful and healthy week…it makes me feel better ❤️‍🩹 to post on Mayo Connect… I don’t feel as isolated…🙏pvctom

I hope your wife got the medical advice she needed. I've been both the caretaker and the designated patient. Both positions are difficult, and it can be hard to know who makes the decisions. Anyway, I hope this situation has improved.

@mir123

Thank you so much…my wife’s situation is still unresolved…but hopefully her condition will improve or we go back to the ER which she does not want to do…in a way, I can’t blame her…the reactions and kind replies that I have received here, have saved me from that horrible isolation feeling. 🙏

Hello to all

I hope alll here are well and dealing with the extremely hot 🥵 summer…my morning anxiety awakening continue … I pray to God to please help me with my worries and fears and give me piece… I say this short prayer whenever I think to do it..
I still count my blessings.. I have a wife who can still think, drive and show me understanding and support and 2 very good neighbors that are single men in their 70’s who are polite and kind and respectful..
yesterday the one neighbor on the right of our townhouse/villa power washed our privacy fence since he was doing his… what a nice thing to do….
Monday we went to the dentist who said he could extract her 9 top teeth 🦷 without any difficulty.. he’d just numb her and not use sedation.. he’s already made her dentures..he’s been doing dentistry for 37’years…. I felt pretty good about it.. we will return there next Tuesday at 2:30

Yesterday, we went to Belvoir for my eye Followup..she checked the eye 👁️ pressures which were ok, the optic nerve was ok and showed no signs of thinning, but the old vessel bleed had not yet healed..
the doctor did say that sometimes they take awhile to heal..but mentioned glaucoma and wants to see me in another 3 months… vision tests and pressures were retaken, the images and scans were normal.. so back to see her in October…my wife dove home, then late last night she lost her footing and fell hard on the kitchen floor…I helped her up and she fortunately did not injure herself… but it was frightening and painful to watch her trip up in mid stride and fall… thank God she appears to be ok today…lastly this Friday we go to the local nephrologist for the makeup followup visit for my wife and they can go over her labs and hopefully her results will be ok… still can’t forget about my old bandmate who recently passed away at 73….I remain grateful for the support and a place to come to to post my thoughts and feelings and let someone out there know about what’s going on in my life … to all who come here and to the Mayo Connect Community I wish a healthy, happy and safe next few weeks 🙏pvctom

Since I stopped writing "dear diary" lol 😆 I thought that was a good memory when I was reading your post. So thank you.
I have a journal and sometimes I draw write down bible verses and studies, quotes I like.
I love looking back at it and seeing growth its like reading a story.

Sometimes I write down a letter to someone im mad at or some one whose hurt me.
Write all thats in my head and sign my name rip it up and throw it in my fire pit. It's getting it all out and the burning is letting it go.
Releasing it.