Today is my 34th birthday and what a journey it has been! Traumatic events during my childhood have made my journey difficult at times but I am thankful that things became easier when I learned to focus on my mental health. As a gift to myself, I want to reflect over the process of regaining good mental health and share healthy practices that have kept me sane! Over the next 3 days, I will blog about 3 key things I do to keep my mental health intact.
Today I want to talk about journaling and blogging.
Sometimes I couldn’t share my feelings with other people for the fear of being judged. I didn’t trust others to understand me, my story, my post traumatic stress, or my anxiety. As a teenager, I would hold my emotions in until they came out in unhealthy ways. Holding my emotions in would lead to emotional outbursts and sickness. One day, an older lady at my church gifted me with a journal. She told me that she could tell I was struggling and needed an outlet. She told me to write all of my feelings as a means of expressing myself. So that’s exactly what I did. From the age of 17 until today I have journals filled with feelings, hopes, dreams, and prayers. I also began to blog about some of those things because I knew that there were others going through the same things that I was.
By writing and blogging, I began to deal with my emotions in a healthy way. I started to see a decrease in my emotional outbursts and sickness. I also learned to take a minute to just breathe. I would do breathing exercises before writing in my journal. Writing has helped me through a lot of hard times. I will continue to express myself through writing.
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