Toxicity Toolkit – Points to Ponder 3 – Journaling

Tips for Journaling

There are many times that you’ll be instructed to make a journal entry, but you should keep your journal handy even when you’re not being asked to complete an exercise.

I highly recommend DAILY journaling. Set a time for yourself every day to reflect, to refresh your understanding of the week’s exercise, to analyze moments from your day that didn’t feel healthy, or that you don’t understand.

Use your journal to document when you’ve used the tools, and what came from them. Use it to document when the tools might have helped, but weren’t used. What happened? Use it to document your feelings in the process. Write down your hopes and your happiness.

Daily reflections don’t have to be lengthy, but even jotting a few sentences can really help you process, analyze, and find patterns in your behavior and the behavior of others.

Find a form of journaling that works for you. You can journal in videos you keep on your phone or a thumb drive. You can make audio recordings on your phone as well. You can just open a word document, and type away, or you can sit down with pen and paper. Find what works for you and do it every day.



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