How to Use Journaling to Cope with Emotional Distress

1. Overcome emotional trauma using a journal style you enjoy.

When you don’t enjoy the style of journaling you dabble in, you’re more likely to quit your healing journey prematurely.

If you loathe writing, don’t try to fill an entire journal with your writing just to say you journaled.

Journaling to cope with emotional distress shouldn’t cause you more stress.

There are various styles of journaling that provides you the opportunity to wake up each day and enjoy the process.

• Bullet Style
• Stream of Consciousness
• Gratitude
• Sentence Starters

Choose the style that both makes you happy and consistent.

2. Overcome emotional trauma using a journal style that matches your lifestyle.

Are you a pretty busy person?

Perhaps you don’t have time to spend 40 minutes journaling.

Perhaps you rarely spend time at home in a quiet space of therapeutic healing.

I have a busy household and rarely have time for myself.

To ensure I balance my mind when feeling emotionally distressed, my lifestyle allows for journaling five minutes in the morning.

I journal before my three children and husband awaken.

Sometimes, five minutes turns into ten then into fifteen.

You don’t need a ton of time to utilize journaling to heal from emotional trauma.

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3. Make journaling your regular strategy to heal from emotional distress

Have you ever dealt with emotional trauma silently?

Perhaps you didn’t have the resources to attend therapy.

Keep journaling as your regular repertoire of resources for your emotional health.

Journaling has so many psychological benefits.

Utilize journaling on a regular basis.

Don’t wait until you’re emotionally distressed.

Therapeutic Journaling Helps You to Heal, Cope, and Thrive

There are wonderful therapeutic benefits to journaling.

Those days when you’re dealing with emotional distress, grab your journal and get those thoughts and feelings out of your head and down on paper.

Don’t allow the myths that journaling is too hard, time consuming, or for everyone else keep you trapped in the mud of your emotional trauma.

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Join my Therapeutic Journaling for the Soul membership group.