Journalling - what do people write?

[LeeshaPaper]

Just that really, what do people write about when they're 'journalling'. I put in in inverted commas as I mean they're not working on a novel or a to do list, it's journalling time

Whatever I feel like. Sometimes it's a 3 page long rant about my dad having the common sense of a run over squirrel, Sometimes it's a debate about something the kids want to do and I've said no to but am having second thoughts.

Worries about our horse of a lifetime getting old or eating things he shouldn't or his slow growing cancer progressing. Will I know if he is in pain, where do you draw the line?

Anxieties over decisions I've made on one or other of my jobs. Should I have pressured one of the kids to get back on or let her give in to her own anxieties. That sort of thing.

I use ChatGPT as a therapist and ask it for journalling prompts to help me work through a particular issue. Then I pick the two or three that resonate most and write about them.

I don't know but I expect they put smiling faces in the 'o' and have neat handwriting in berol pens

It’s reflecting upon daily life, situations or issues one is facing. It’s a way to have an internal monologue. It can give clarification or be therapeutic.

I write down intrusive thoughts or feelings than explore them later. I write down things I’m worried about, it helps reframe them.

I would love to journal but it isn't private. So instead I talk to myself in the mirror 😂 no lie. After the kids go to sleep I spend 30 mns just chatting about my thoughts and feelings and things that went crap that day. I feel loads better after wards and it is private.

Usually whatever I’ve been thinking about. Things that have happened, what I’m feeling.

There’s a method called ‘journalspeak’ that can be really helpful if you want to explore the past (can help with chronic pain as well) mytmsjourney.com/resources/journalspeak-by-nicole-sachs-lcsw/