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How to journal to help your health and wellness

  • Writer: Kate
    Kate
  • May 24
  • 3 min read

Updated: May 25



Journaling is so helpful that I made up a tag line: journal it to learn it!

Writing in a journal can help you process events and feelings, set goals and make plans, and it's really great at helping you remember things:

The relative slowness of the medium forces you to process the information, writing key words or phrases and using drawing or arrows to work through ideas, she says. "You make the information your own," she says, which helps it stick in the brain.

--Audrey van der Meer, psychologist and study co-author at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.



There are so many different ways to journal, way beyond a "Dear Diary" record of day after day. Explore the links below, play around with journal prompts that are of interest, change it up whenever you need to, and remember: one of the greatest benefits of journaling is you have a great excuse to go buy a journal!!


  • Some basic journaling prompts, good for trying out journaling for the first time:

Classics:

✔️ a few things you were grateful for today, from the tiny to the sublime

✔️ what you appreciated about yourself, what you accomplished, what you're looking to tomorrow




  • You can use words to journal about art, and you can use art to journal about things: ✔️ This is a lovely how-to and why-to piece in the Times about drawing your life

    "Drawing itself is a moment — time spent with the object you’ve chosen, and a chance to consider its story. You can spend time with your objects in different ways by drawing them carefully or mindlessly, with a pencil, pen or in watercolor."


  • Use nature as a prompt: ✔️ Micah Mortali's green-gazing meditation offers lovely ways to consider what is out your window -- How many different colors or shapes do I see?, What is the light doing?


  • And guess what? ✔️✔️ Your therapist would love it if you journaled about what you're working on this week!! Self-affirmations? Well-wishing meditation? Anxiety reality-check questions? How to stop worrying reframing? Write it out!...



 
 
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