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Sharing a journal and the personal benefits you get from keeping a journal is a great way to find out how someone else is using the power of a journal. Reading about someone's journaling experience reveals what journaling means to them. what it provided. What you learned about yourself and the world around you.
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A journal is a place to express and record what is important to you. Many people have told me about their diaries. Below are some ideas of what was important for the journal.

One man uses journaling to control physical pain.

Aspiring comedians write jokes every day

A friend keeps track of every penny he spends.

The pregnant mother wrote letters to her baby every day in her womb.
I've heard from abused women who wrote in their journals how to get out of their abuse.

Some write letters, poems, and even calendars.

Others keep journals of their prayers, dreams, goals, or intentions.

Many people track and record what happened that day.

I asked subscribers of my column, About Journaling, if they would share what journaling means to them. Here's what they said:
“Hi Doreen, thank you for inviting me to share your journaling experience. During the whole process, I've stared at many journals.After just a few days of struggling with what to write about, the entries slowly dwindled.Dec 2005 I quickly realized I could do this until an intensive workshop during the month gave me the instruction to write down 5 of my daily successes each night.

The mere fact of my day-to-day focus on “what is my success” has subtly changed my perspective. I found myself very satisfied with my progress, big and small. No difference - I like this feeling - and my experience looks so bright in the moments that are happening.I try to see success in everything but it is contagious from everyone. Thank you for this opportunity! Reflective" M.

“I didn't keep a journal until I was about 30. I started keeping a journal when I went back to school. I requested to keep a journal.I started journaling and found it helped my creativity.I didn't often encounter writer's block while journaling. Since I started journaling, I have learned more about myself and noticed that my writing has changed.When I use my pen and paper journal for ideas instead of other things, when I write something I use the computer. and word processing programs, and now extend journaling to writing blogs.” N.F.D.

"I received The 5 Year Journal as a Christmas gift. I start my daily entries with Aura-Soma - discoveries from the color tarot cards drawn that day and the important messages and events of the day. The essence of the day. Thank you for this book." M.

“I just started my computerized journal. Not only was it time consuming to write everything down, but I found it cumbersome to keep all the different journals organized. It's pretty decent...enough so I decided to switch everything to it. I can record multiple journals so I have one for my daily thoughts (I appreciate, I put my moods, daily thoughts in this one)...I have one where I keep a copy of my blog....I have one where I record my tarot readings ...I also have one for meditation as far as the insight I got in the moment is concerned." C.

“I have kept a journal for many years because I love to write. First I kept a prayer journal, then I was able to record how my prayers were answered. By then I had filled page after page with our events, our joys and triumphs, and a lot of pain. It kind of flowed out and into me.. The paper, gave me the relief and outlet I needed. If I had told him all this sorrow and sorrow and disappointment, it might have helped me, but he made me carry not only my burden but also his own. Diaries were the perfect outlet for me. Things eventually leveled off somewhat, but I continued to write them. They became a sort of personal and family archival material. .good.
When I retired, a colleague gave me a beautiful leather-bound five-year journal. i loved it! Then a loved one in my family went through a very difficult time again and we were again in emotional turmoil.The diary contained all my thoughts and feelings for about four years. Then one day, while visiting my daughter in the west, I put some books on the car to free my hands so I could take the car keys out of my notebook. We drove happily until we remembered the book on the way to our destination. Horror! We rushed back to my daughter's neighborhood and inspected every house, including a long patch of highway.I searched (on foot) behind every ditch and every bush, but never found the diary.Someone must have picked it up and read it with interest. I fully expect to be reminded of "Portia Faces Life" one day either by reading the book or watching the movie on TV.I'm sure outsiders are reading it, It must have looked a lot like a soap opera, and they must have thought the writers were drama queens. In writing, you can get real catharsis.
The most profound part of the loss was the feeling that four years of my life had been taken away from me. Did I mention I have a very bad memory? Ultimately, I learned that much of what I wrote I would rather forget. Life has become more manageable. Our lives have been rebuilt with more blessings than problems. So who should leave bad memories behind? Not me. Finally, it actually felt much healthier to let everything go.

Another realization was that I definitely wanted another five-year journal. It's been a lot of fun writing the entries for the day and seeing what we've done in a year, two, three years. I went to the internet, typed "5 Year Journal" into a search engine, and it was there. The rest is history. I cherish the diary I ordered from you, but I will never take it with me on my trips. I will enter the data in another notebook and transfer it when I get home. For the most part, this is a happy diary and I enjoy it.Thanks for designing it, making it affordable, and for giving me encouragement and ideas for the journaling process. Thank you." S.M.

Hi Doreen, I never thought I was a really strong person until I reread my journal.I was able to find my son and ask him for help, so he recovered and moved closer to his family. rice field.

He graduated with honors from Nevada Community College and teaches (with computers) to others affected by mental illness. I relived the tears, heartache and despair I felt for my son who was diagnosed with a mental illness... all that pain, the stigma! Now that I am a mental illness advocate and sharing what I have learned, I have Doreene's Journal and have discovered something about myself. I am strong! I'm starting a new diary that says, "This is what a healthy and ambitious 40-year-old looks like... in an 80-year-old body!" Thank you Doreen" D.
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