19/11/2025
📖Journaling- A bit crèche, but it works!
Tried journaling today only to be told “not right now,cuddles are more important” by not one, but two of my furry life companions!🤣 🐶 🐶 💗
So, I had my serving if cuddles and decided to share my experience with jouraling instead.
At the beginning of my healing journey I use to scoff at the thought of journaling.
It seemed tedious and downright boring and pointless to me.
That was until the day I decided to give it a go!
That day arrived when I was soo overwhelmed with everything in my life to the point of intense waves of exhaustion, chaos, extreme anxiety, dissociation from my reality, and physical and mental pain from trying to contain the past, present and future (yes future!🤦🏼♀️) thoughts, feelings and emotions within me in order to maintain the mask society expected from a woman and mother that I was supposed to be.
But in that moment I was not seeing the world as a woman, I was seeing the world as a petrified 9 year old girl trying to escape the ‘danger’ my nervous system was perceiving, due to my unhealed trauma and all of the confusing information I was receiving from my mind and the environment around me.
On this day I reached my “I’m done!”
limit and I chose to just do it and see what happens, because doing nothing was obviously not working.
I soon started to notice that the more I journaled the more I felt the chaos calm around me and within me and I started to think clearly, rationally and I was able to start to see patterns in my own behaviour.
I started to see fragments of my trauma speaking to me through my thoughs, memories,feelings, perspectives and the way that my body responded to my environment.
My whole body was crying out to me in the only way it knew how, by forcing the pain outwards for all to see in the form of self sabbotage and the most intense verbal aggression that I have ever experienced!
Journalling became my key to seeing the bigger picture, the key to starting to separate myself from my trauma, to allow it out in a way that did not hurt others and myself.
It also helped in my counseling sessions to give things a name and to map out a way that I could process and heal those fragmented parts of myself and bring them back home.
This basic process of journaling became the lifeline that I didn’t know I needed.
Don’t dismisses something that could change your life for the better.
Give it a go and see what happens.
Be active in your own healing, because you are the only one who can do the work and create the life you want and deserve.
Take back your power, take back control of your life, take responsibility for yourself and your actions, seek out knowledge and skills and take an informed approach to your healing.
I did it and you can too!
Let’s seek, learn, practice, share and heal together!
As always,
Amy x
