Journaling from day to day tends to open up the creative side of my brain, but also, provides me a private audience to voice my concerns, write out my troubles, and sometimes, just rant to my heart’s content- all of which is therapy for me.
I think the reason being when you write in a journal, you’re writing to your innermost Self. You’re writing to that part that listens, encourages, and stands by your side. Its that part of yourself that’s the ‘parent within’, the mature, know-it-all that realizes the answers to your problems if only the ‘child within’ can stop having temper tantrums. or give into weaknesses.
In my journal, I will rant without hinderance, spewing forth obnoxiousness, to air the emotional garbage from my soul. I then go through what I wrote, editing out the extremes, and adding an answer to that rant. I’ve been surprised at the result.
Indecisions find a decision. Anger gets tempered with compassion. Muddled thought finds clarity. In other words- its therapy. ![]()
Try it out- Start a journal where you write out an issue that’s bothering you. Once done, write another entry in response to that, as if you’re your best friend (or parent), and see what bubbles up.
I tend to blither in my personal journal, writing without my inner editor to nag or distract. Words just flow and thoughts meander through ponderings. Its very cathartic, for me, as a writer.
Long ago, writer’s evoked muses, spirits of creativity, to help them write, paint, sculpt, sing, or even share comedy. In fact, a genius was once considered outside of the self and considered an element/spirit of the Divine that touched a person so they could do great things.
















