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Journaling
for Therapy
Journaling is essentially a therapuetic
activity. Most of us, however, do not live in tragedy or
crisis 24/7, but if we live long enough we will experience
pain, loss, and any number of difficulties life brings our
way. Therapy journaling is one of the best ways you can
start and continue the healing process through difficulties
you may be experiencing. Gaining wisdom and growing in all
the ways we need to grow can be greatly enhanced by journaling.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through
failure.
- William Saroyan
Here are
some thoughts to get you started in Therapy Journaling.
- A Therapy Journal can be a life saver
especially during rough times of recovery from a divorce,
death or illness. By re-reading through difficult times
during new times of distress, you can learn that survival
and coping will get you through again. Perhaps you will
glean some clarity when you see how far you have come in
the healing process.
- Getting your thoughts down, on paper
and in clear view can often help you to sort out complicated
feelings. Even writing a letter within your journal to a
person that has hurt you, can help you to bring feelings
to the surface, see them at face value and then move on.
Healing after a loss or great crisis is a multi-faceted
situation and a journal can be a great and steady companion
through the process.
- There are online journals where people
of like situations go and publicly talk and journal about
their recovery. Addiction, weight loss, illness, divorce
and death all have forums and journaling sites devoted to
sharing and recovery. We'll try and find some to help share
this valuable tool.
May We Suggest....
Resources on Therapy Journaling
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Writing
to Save Your Life
How
to Honor Your Story Through Journaling
by Michele Weldon
Loose Ends
A Journaling Tool for Tying Up the Incomplete Details of
Your Life and Heart
by Eldonna Bouton
Writing
Your Way Through Cancer
by Chia Martin
Journaling
from the Heart
A Writing Workshop in Three Parts
by Eldonna Bouton
A Year in
the Life
Journaling
for Self-Discovery
by Sheila Bender
Your Corner
of the Universe
A
Guide to Self-Therapy Through Journal Writing
by Andrea Campbell
Writing
Out the Storm
Journal
Musings of a Manic-Depressive Wanderer
by Rebecca Mitchell Merriman
A Healing
Journal
Beginning
Again After the Death of Someone You Love
by Ted Menten
Journaling
for Joy
Writing
Your Way to Personal Growth and Freedom
by Joyce Chapman; Chapman
I See Myself
Changing
Weekly
Meditations and Recovery Journaling for Young Adults
by Linda Meyer
My Psychotherapy
Journal
Psychological
Healing & Growth Through Journaling
by J. Slava Thaler
The Life
Strategies Self Discovery Journal
Finding
What Matters Most for You
by Phillip C. McGraw
Journal
to the Self
Twenty-Two
Paths to Personal Growth -
Open
the Door to Self-Understanding by Reading, Writing
by Kathleen Adams
Writing
to Heal
A
Guided Journal for Recovering from Trauma & Emotional
Upheaval
by James W. Pennebaker
Return to the Different Styles of Journaling Page
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