Yes, I journal to my T. I'm trying to remember how we started. I think it started with me just sharing parts of what I had wrote during session. In the beginning, I'd hand it to her to read. Well in the very beginning, I started seeing her for a life altering event and I showed up with lots of stuff for her to read. I could barely talk then. As we transitioned away from crisis support to ongoing therapy, I still brought in what I had written. Most the time I would hand to her to read. I would push myself to read what I could. Somewhere after a few months of the ongoing therapy, we transitioned to where I gave her my journal and she read it between sessions. We'd talk about what I wrote if and only if I bring it up with a few exceptions mostly around safety and death or if I directly asked her if there was anything she thought stood out. We've been working this way for 2 yrs. There are parts of the journal that I mark as private and do not give her at all or at that moment. Overall, this has been a great way for her to see inside me and the random thoughts that come up and through.

I am able to read a lot more now that I used to. I don't remember the last thing I handed to her to read because I couldn't voice it. Sometimes I'll try to talk about it without reading and I'll end up pulling out my journal because I felt like I said it much better there not so much because I can't talk about the topic.