25: How To Start A Journaling Practice

Episode Overview:
In this episode I am talking about a subject near and dear to my heart and that subject in journaling. In this episode I talk about the benefits of journaling, how to get started with journaling, what to write about when journaling, how to overcome journaling blocks, and how to make it part of your regular routine on an ongoing basis.

I also created a free handout of 25 Journal Prompts to get you started and to help support your journaling practice. You can find it HERE.

What I Cover:

• Why journaling is powerful and the difference between journaling with a pen and paper and typing.

• I help you consider what you want to achieve with your journaling practice, how much time you have to commit, and where you can journal.

• I also share 6 common things that can come up when engaging in a journaling practice and what you can do to manage them. They include:
  • Experiencing strong emotions.
  • Increased rumination.
  • Trying to censor your thoughts.
  • Fear that someone else will read your journal.
  • Feeling like you have nothing to write about some days.
  • Experiencing breakthroughs and some discomfort associated with them.

Let's Take Some Action:

1. Decide what you want to get out of your journaling practice. This can evolve and change over time but it is helpful to start with a vision for how you want to use your journaling. If you want to use prompts to help you with your journaling, grab my 25 Journal Prompts Guide to help get you started. You can grab it at www.KarenVincentSolutions.com/journaling. 

2. Decide how much time you can commit to journaling each day or week. Pick a time that feels absolutely doable for you right now and know that you can always make adjustments as you need to in the future.

3. Decide on where you want to do your journaling. If possible, have a particular space that you use when you are journaling to make it more of a habit or ritual and be sure it is somewhere private where you can focus on yourself uninterrupted.

Useful Resources:

Do you worry too much, overthink, assume the worst-case scenarios, spend a lot of time focusing on negative things that have happened, or discredit positive things happening? If so, you are dealing with the human brain we have all been given and you are not alone.

The good news is, you can change this and it may not take as long as you may think! If you want a free resource that will help you examine your thinking patterns, and change those that are not serving you, grab my 5 Common Thought Distortions Guide HERE.

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