Hope-full thanks very much for sharing your experiences It helps reading about your coding system and the way you use your journal in relation to your therapy sessions and knowing it's an extra tool rather than replacement. For some reason I can't get the link you shared to open at all; I tried googling it as well and it wouldn't open for me from there either hopefully it works later as I'd like to read that. Would you be able to share what you use for an online journal (if not, that's ok), the military security aspect sounds great though.

Rhi, that's great journalling and therapy as a mix works so well for you and lets you deal with your anxiety. I like the way your T works within it as well with letting you share what you are comfortable with and being ok with you not sharing unless you do feel that comfort. Interesting to read also about letting words "go", could be powerful to do that and really watch them go in ways more than just pressing "delete".

Salmacis, thanks for sharing that. So humour works when reading back, ok I suppose to read back would require feeling safe at the time and feeling in good humour to deal with the things that were hard to write and to deal with those moronic moments (which I know I have lots of).