01/11/2024
How popular is journaling and what is it?
SRE Creative will be creating journals in 2025 incorporating all the styles mentioned below. It’s a project I have just started to research so I can give you the best tools to bring out the best YOU for 2025. If this is something you would like to find out more about, please pop me a text or email (see end of post for details
Journaling is whatever you want it to be. Whether you are going on holiday, starting a new fitness regime, having a baby, have mental health worries or just enjoy writing about your life
A journal isn’t going to solve all your problems. It isn’t a therapist or counselor. But it can help you learn more about yourself and allows you to reflect on what you have achieved or where you have been.
Benefits of Journaling:
Whether you’re dealing with stress from school, burnout from work, an illness, or anxiety, journaling can help in many ways:
It can reduce your anxiety. Journaling about your feelings is linked to decreased mental distress. In a study, researchers found that those with various medical conditions and anxiety who wrote online for 15 minutes three days a week over a 12-week period had increased feelings of well-being and fewer depressive symptoms after one month. Their mental well-being continued to improve during the 12 weeks of journaling.
It helps with brooding. Writing about an emotional event can help you break away from the nonstop cycle of obsessively thinking and brooding over what happened — but the timing matters. Some studies show that writing about a traumatic event immediately after it happens may actually make you feel worse.
Clarity & routine. If you are someone who finds it hard to stick to a routine, journaling can help you. Just by giving your journal 15 mins of your time every other day is you starting a routine. It can help you plan and with that will bring confidence.
There are a lot of different types of journals on the market.
1. A Structured journal is a form of question and answer journaling. This is a good place to start if you’ve never done it before.
2. Bullet journaling is exactly what it says on the tin. Blank pages for you to bulletin point your action plan for the day or week whether that be things you want to achieve this week or how you’re feeling everyday without writing an essay.
3. Daily journals. This is the same one you kept as a kid with the little padlock on. Each day you write what you did, who you met, how you felt, what you ate. Anything really that comes into your head.
4. Travel journal. These are great on the go. Usually pocket sized so you can whip it out and start writing or drawing in the moment. A lot of people may call this version scrapbooking as many people add items from their trip such as postcards, pictures, receipts and more, all to keep the memories alive.
Whatever type and style you choose, I am sure that once you start, you’ll wonder why you didn’t do it sooner 😀
To find out more or join the waiting list contact me at. [email protected]. Or 07462 058289