Labeling emotions and acknowledging traumatic events, both natural outcomes of journaling, have a known positive effect on people, and are often incorporated into traditional talk therapy.
Keeping a journal helps to organize an event in our mind, and make sense of trauma.

Journaling as therapy

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<li>Boost in mindfulness</li>
<li>Better memory</li>
<li>Better communication skills</li>
<li>Improves mental health</li>
<li>Better sleep</li>
<li>A stronger immune system</li>
<li>More self-confidence</li>
<li>Higher I.Q.</li>
</ul>

Benefits of Journaling

3 pages of longhand writing, strictly stream-of-conscious, done as soon as one wakes.They are not meant to be art. Or even writing. They need not be smart, or funny, or particularly deep. It's a form of “brain drain”, a way to expel all that angry, petty stuff that spirals through our subconscious and muddies our days.

Morning Pages

One of the more effective acts of self-care is also, happily, one of the cheapest. It was my ex-husband who got me journaling again. Our marriage was falling apart, and, on the advice of his friend, he had started to do "morning pages," a daily journaling practice from the seminal self-help book "The Artist's Way."

Benefits of Journaling

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