My t encouraged me to journal in the beginning and I've been doing it religiously ever since. It's been really helpful for me in sorting out stuff. I do that here on PC a lot too, of course. She has never asked to read my journal. We do a lot of dream work so I do always read my dreams to her, because I have a dream journal as well. I have read her things from my journal, emailed her things from it, but she's never asked to read it. And I've never offered. I keep my journals in spiral notebooks, and I have a big box of them in my closet from over 4 years of therapy. I pull the box out from time to time and read back in my earlier journals and it's really cool to see my growth, how different I sounded in the beginning. One bad thing about hard-copy journals: I have to be vigilant not to leave one somewhere. I always bring it with me to work, because I write in it on my lunch break, and more than once I have gotten the sudden sick feeling in my stomach that I left it in the break room or something (I never have). If anyone read it and knew it was mine.... I shudder to think about it. My h knows about them but he is too lazy to bother reading them. Which is a good thing.