encourage us to write in our journal.

we've not written in it since august (and we're not exactly happy about that)

but when ever we write in it, it's always the same- then we get so fed up of writing the same stuff, we just stop

tips

what could we do that could encourage us to write in our journal (as we do like our journal and it's like the friend we never had)

we always say oh yeah.. well, we'll start it up again on a regular bases, but we never do

[Luce]

Well, what do you want to use it for? As in, what do you want to get out of it?

[L.P.]

Are you a creative type? I have heard that drawing in journal spaces (and even to do lists) can be a helpful motivating force. Nott to the extent that it makes the journal a sketch pad, but somehow encouraging artistic endeavors such as border designs, stickers, collage bits on one side with writing on the other... things along those lines.

-Tay

I have been journaling since I was a very young girl...absolutely love writing.

I almost never run out of things to write about,but the rare times that I have,journaling prompts have given me many new and different,and creative things to write about.

Just Google "journal prompts" to find some.

[elevatedsoul]

i do the same thing.. i wrote 70 pages over a couple months last year and same ol same ol and i just fed up with it so quit...
seems like it doesnt help, but it left some information for me to go back and read on... even though i havent read it in a long time and probably wont read it for a long time due to it being triggering :/

maybe just writing a diary style would be good... like writing down everything i did that day, atleast everything i remember doing...

"dear diary, today i went to foodlion and took a shower"

[TrailRunner14]

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.

A journal can be anything you want it to be,it can be like a daily diary,it can have recipes,thoughts,drawings,anything goes.

I have many different journals,some on paper,some online,I like to go back and read old entries when I am feeling down because it helps me see the progress I have made.I also like to read through them when I am struggling with something,see how I have handled it or something similar in the past.

I also kept a 'therapy' journal for the entire 5 years I went.It is very helpful to go back and read entries in it.