Journaling instead of going to therapy

[Brandon Nankivell]

It is possible to identify traumas with the aid of journaling. Then holding on to them or letting them go will be your choice.

Some prompts I use:

• Why am I feeling X?
• What is the source of X?
• What is first memory in which I remember feeling X?
• What is the most potent memory in which I remember feeling X?
• What triggers X?
• What does feeling X or behaving X do for me?
• Would I like to keep holding on to X or let it go?

[shree]

Journaling can be therapeutic, but it's not a therapy.

From my experience, inner child dialogue which can be very powerful. It's a form of journaling. Combined with a few other things it can make miracles in your life.

[Letho]

@Basman f no.

I've never had therapy but I basically have an advanced+ degree in self-awareness, etc. 

If you don't have that, do both. 

I mean, just go and see a very good therapist to help with your journaling it'll only cost you a few hundred bucks and you'll be journaling 10X better than you otherwise would have. Do research and use your intuition on who's likely to help you on your path here.

Your path here obviously isn't meant to be go and see a therapist, its obviously to learn from a therapist as well as anything else you can do on how to develop your self-awareness so you don't need them anymore. So do that. Don't mess around with it, get it done.

You also have Meta-AI for example, just use that, then feedback loop your learning experience with an ACTUAL therapist and you'll NATURALLY continually grow from there. Don't think you're all crash hot and get overconfident, its so incredibly valuable to have feedback from extremely good insightful people/therapists, even if they're sometimes a little off, you use the feedback to grow regardless.

[Basman]

On 01/10/2024 at 11:00 AM, shree said:

Journaling can be therapeutic, but it's not a therapy.

From my experience, inner child dialogue which can be very powerful. It's a form of journaling. Combined with a few other things it can make miracles in your life.

Do you have any resources on inner child dialoging?

[shree]

58 minutes ago, Basman said:

Do you have any resources on inner child dialoging?

Check my public journal in the forum. I think one of my last posts explains it very well.

If you want to go deeper into it, I suggest Teal Swan's Self-Love course and Patrick Teahan.