The "I AM" Blog
Anxiety doesn't sit still. That's the whole problem with using a regular journal prompt on it. Something like what am I grateful for today assumes a calm mind. One that can actually scan and choose. Anxiety doesn't offer that kind...
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The words a child hears about themselves early in life have a way of becoming the words they say to themselves for the rest of it. That is not pressure, it is just how it works. And most of us,...
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Almost everyone has lived through this exact moment. You work hard toward something, you actually get it, and instead of the satisfaction you were counting on, there's just this flat, quiet now what. The promotion comes through and nothing settles....
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There's a long list of well-known people who kept journals. Marcus Aurelius, Charles Darwin, Frida Kahlo, Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Maya Angelou. The list gets cited often in conversations about journaling, usually as evidence that keeping a journal...
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Most journaling practices are oriented toward the present or the past. You write about what happened, what you're feeling, what you're working through. All of that is valuable, and all of it is looking at what already exists. Future self...
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