I have shared my journal for over a year now and have found it an invaluable tool in my therapy. Only recently have I changed the useage of the journal and have found it difficult. A question is do you expect your T to read it while you are sitting there or between sessions and have you talked about that in the past. If you expect them to read it while you are sitting there, you might want to highlight portions that are most important. I have also heard of some T's requesting the client to read it out loud rather than having them read it.

A final thought, is since a big topic in this piece is about suicide, have you talked about suicide with your T in the past, are you aware of how they react around it, how the determine your safety and their responses. Early on, one of my journal entries was about my position on suicide and life in general. I had a meltdown that night (my T reads the journal between sessions) because of not knowing how she took what I wrote.