Something I'm really proud of is having 8 years' worth of journals. Started journaling as a kid but my parents read my 3rd grade journal & took it away--chi-le, the lack of boundaries--& so I felt too traumatized to faithfully start again until age 17.

A few years ago I also made the intentional decision to start journaling abt good things, not jus bad things, cuz I don't wanna look back w my journals & get hit, page by page, w trauma. Wanted to use journaling as a way to not only deal w the bad but celebrate the good

Though if it works for you to use journaling to just process the bad, that's fine too. I don't think there's a wrong way to journal as long as it works for you.

I just noticed that I had a history of telling myself abt bad things & not good things. I wanted to start telling myself abt good things too. Cuz I deserve to know when good happens to me, or when I do good, as much as I deserve to tell myself abt bad or when I do bad