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Originally Posted by sisu
..... Don't journal everything out, that just lets you intellectualise it more. Mine had to stop me from this. Instead, write down two sentences, or even just a couple of words. Stop TALKING about what you feel, and start SHARING what you feel.
........But the journaling? Yeah. We do it to protect ourselves, not always to get into our emotions but to get out of them. ...........
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IMHO, in a sixty minute space (let alone a 55, 50, or 45 minute space) there is just not enough time to TALK about everything, much less to process anything, hardly. Journaling can be done in one's own place, in one's own time, and can be used to record for memory's sake, but also to vent, (which is processing), and to explore (which is also processing).
I suppose it could be used as an avoidance, then again I bring in my journal more frequently now than I did before...and T's eyes light up every time she sees it. I wonder if she will ever ask to borrow it - I think to myself, if she does too bad for her, my handwriting is so bad even I can hardly read it a lot of times
