Journaling As A Coping Strategy

Have y'all tried journaling as a coping strategy for stress? What are your master strategies? We've all got piddling strategies to piece of work with for times when we're emotionally distressed. Some of these are good for us or neutral, and some are not as healthy.

A few of my go-to coping mechanisms are eating, napping, and actually hot showers. As a person with bipolar, depression, anxiety, yadayadayada, I need a lot of strategies!

I'm turning more and more to journaling as a coping strategy for stress. Journaling is almost e'er available, it doesn't hurt anyone, and it's not unhealthy for me. No one is always mad at me if I plow to journaling, and it can't brand the trouble worse.

Information technology'south also practical: in improver to beingness soothing, over fourth dimension it leads to real solutions to ongoing bug. Morning time Pages, in detail, are a great way to reveal solutions to ongoing life bug. Morning Pages are 3 pages of longhand journaling every morning or 750 Words typed out.

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Whenever I feel my emotions leave of control, I plow to the folio to write down what's going on with me. I write my ugly words, my angry words, my dislocated words, my sorry words. I've cried on journal pages before, and I've stabbed through some pages with angry jabs of my pen.

Sometimes I observe that I literally only need to write one sentence. Today I wrote in my journal, "This morning I freaked out and cried over all my failed projects." And simply like that, I felt a lilliputian ameliorate. To proper name a problem and to express it out loud has value. Getting something out is the get-go step – sometimes the only step – to letting information technology go.

What kinds of coping mechanisms do you lot use? Is journaling one of them?

Get The Gear

Here'south some of the stuff I utilise in my journaling practices. (These are all chapter links. Cheers for your support!)

	I use a medium size dotted Leuchtturm1917 notebook. It'due south got a hard comprehend, 185 numbered pages, a bare table of contents, a back pocket, page markers, and an elastic closure. Information technology lays flat when opened and comes in a gazillion great colors!
	Sharpie Fine Indicate Pens are my absolute favorites for regular journaling and bullet journaling. Regular pens tend to be too pointy for me, or I don't similar how the ink comes out. These Sharpie pens write smooth, and I love using lots of different colors.
	Washi tape, because I honey decorating my journals. I use these for headers, dividers, and for adding random strips of colour to a boring folio.