My journal hangs out with me all the time. It's like my place to download what's in my head. I've experienced what you describe, as journaling the same thing over and over. It's like running in a circle, and very frustrating to me.

I don't know if this will be helpful to you or not, but it is what I do when I get stuck in those places.

I write it, one more time. Purposely, and I really focus on each word. Then, I listen and write down the words that stand out to me. I write them down as I hear them, and then I look up their definitions. I know that may sound weird, but it has helped me look at it in a different way.

There was a particular time that I was blocked by a download that came to me, all at one time. It was all I could journal about. I couldn't get past it. So I wrote it out, and listened. There were several words that came to me, very clearly. One of them was "stupid" - well, I'm not a brilliant quantum physics kind of person, but I don't consider myself stupid either. That is what the common usage of that word is to me. I decided to look it up in the dictionary and see what I found.

There were definitions related to common sense and intelligence, but there was also a definition that opened my eyes. That definition defined stupid as "Dazed, stunned, or stupefied" another one was "frozen and unable to respond" and that is exactly what I was in the moment I was trying to journal through. Instead of me being aggravated because I couldn't get past that point, it opened up a feeling of compassion and caring for that part of me in that moment.

That may not make any sense and may be totally irrelevant to what you are asking, but I just wanted to put that out there.