How Journaling Saved Me

At the beginning of the Covid shelter-in-place order I found myself in the deepest darkest mental space I've ever been in. 

I was cut off from my yoga community, my safe space of support, and I didn’t know how to find that on my own. I felt so lost. 

To keep myself sane (and distracted) I decided to work more on my book and as shelter-in-place grew longer it gave me more time to write. 

Each morning I sat down to journal, focussing on one small part of my book. 

I became more consistent with journaling every morning.

Words flowed out of me and onto the page. 

7+ weeks into shelter-in-place I reflected on my mental state and discovered I felt better than before quarantine began! I found that surprising considering the dark place I was in 7 weeks earlier. 

My consistent journaling allowed me to be an observer of my thoughts instead of being overrun by them.

It gave me a safe space to process and talk through what I was going through without feeling like a complete crazy person.

The parameters of my book gave me a starting point each morning with an inspirational quote and a question to answer. 

That was exactly what I needed.

Before the covid shelter-in- place order, journaling was a part of my life, but I wasn’t consistent. 

I’d started and stopped so many times. I asked myself, what’s stopping me from journaling regularly? 

Fear. 

I didn’t think I had enough time and I was afraid of what might come up. What if a thought popped in that I wasn’t ready to deal with? 

That was the birth of The Thoughtful Journaling Method, a safe way to work through your gnarly sh*t in a short amount of time AND feel good about the process. 

I created it for me, so that I could journal in a way that felt safe, where I no longer felt overrun by my emotions and fears, and I could navigate around thoughts that I wasn’t ready to dwell on or process. 

You can learn the Thoughtful Journaling Method too. It has 5 easy steps.

Grab your free guide to learn the Thoughtful Journaling Method to trust your intuition, yourself, and your abilities to get stuff done. 

With warmth and light,
Kerstin 

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