Journaling can be a helpful focusing tool for finding a path to peace after loss.
After the loss of a loved one, feelings of grief, with accompanying anxiety and depression, can become overwhelming. While such feelings are normal post-trauma, most of us want to heal and feel better and, ultimately, find a personal path to peace after a loss.
Journaling, the act of writing our thoughts down, can force us to focus upon what we want, such as feeling peaceful and at ease, so we can move towards that, rather than remaining where we are: feeling hopeless, helpless and lost. Journaling, as a focusing tool, allows us to shift our focus from dwelling upon something we cannot change, to moving towards something that we can change, which is the way we feel. We start the process by asking, “How do we want to feel?”
Journaling can be a therapeutic tool for processing grief by promoting mindfulness and a more deliberate approach to our life experience. Journaling works best if done consistently, and one way to get into the habit of journaling is to incorporate it into other established daily activities, such as adding it with our morning coffee routine, and to our evening and bedtime routines, until it, too, becomes an established habit.
One example for a journal template is included below:
Journaling, the act of writing our thoughts down, can force us to focus upon what we want, such as feeling peaceful and at ease, so we can move towards that, rather than remaining where we are: feeling hopeless, helpless and lost. Journaling, as a focusing tool, allows us to shift our focus from dwelling upon something we cannot change, to moving towards something that we can change, which is the way we feel. We start the process by asking, “How do we want to feel?”
Journaling can be a therapeutic tool for processing grief by promoting mindfulness and a more deliberate approach to our life experience. Journaling works best if done consistently, and one way to get into the habit of journaling is to incorporate it into other established daily activities, such as adding it with our morning coffee routine, and to our evening and bedtime routines, until it, too, becomes an established habit.
One example for a journal template is included below:
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