charting your emotions and situations is a good idea. when you share what you've found with your t they can help you focus on resolutions and alternate ways of dealing with things. also, a different perspective is good because its not always obvious to ourselves the kinds of things that are problems. sometimes i write off important issues, minimizing them in my own head, and in this way not confronting the real uncomfortable stuff. my t is very good at keeping me on track and making me look at things which i unconciously dont want to look at.