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When do you journal

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 Must Survive (original poster member #34533) posted at 7:24 PM on Monday, August 26th, 2013

So one of the major hurdles in my healing is that I really need to journal, to get everything out of me that I am bottling up.

I don't really like to journal before I go to bed. I like relax, read etc. I would not be in frame of mind for sleep.

But if I do it during the day, its going to ruin my day, and my face. And during the evening I am involved with DS(16) and I don't want him to see me upset.

How do you all handle journaling?

Me BS
WS: Just a squished bug on the window of my life!
Divorced-Let my new beginning start

They have a choice: they can live in my new world, or they can die in their old one." — Daenerys Targaryen

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mof2 ( member #40287) posted at 9:34 PM on Monday, August 26th, 2013

I just journal when I need to get something off my chest...which was a lot more a few months ago. I find it therapeutic and actually helped me get some tears out and relax and not think as much after.

BW - Me 43
WH - Cheating Swine 43
Dday - February 12, 2013....a week before I was to give birth to the child I miscarried and 12 days before our 5th anniversary.

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Ashland13 ( member #38378) posted at 9:42 PM on Monday, August 26th, 2013

Mine seems to come out in the morning, very early, pre-coffee time.

Ashland 13

A person is a person, no matter how small. -Dr. Suess

Perserverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

-George Washington

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mixedintherut ( member #40330) posted at 12:30 AM on Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

I do my journal right before bed. It gives me a chance to think over the day and how it effected me, mentally/emotionally/physically.It kind of gives me a breath of fresh air, and I am able to sleep better! If you found a journal or book of some sort, that fit in your purse, or something similar, you could just grab it and write whenever you felt the need. I am simply using a $.19 wide rule notebook that I bought on sell in the school supplies!

DD 1: PA 12/4/09 He spent 2.5 years with OW1
R: 8/31/2012
DD 2: EA 8/16/13
BS: 26
WH: 25
1 young daughter.
Terribly disgusted. He refuses to give up his "friend". Headed towards D.

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inconnu ( member #24518) posted at 12:38 AM on Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

Early on, it was whenever I needed to. Some days it was several times a day. I find writing very cathartic.

Nowadays, I "write" a lot of blog posts in my head as I'm commuting to and from work, they just don't actually make it to my blog. I do try to blog/journal on the weekend though, when I have more time.

There is no joy without gratitude. - Brené Brown

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Dreamboat ( member #10506) posted at 1:10 AM on Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

I journal when I am pissed. Or when I need to sort something out in my head. In the few years after dday that was almost every day. Now it is every couple of months.

And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back
So shake him off
-- Shake It Out, Florence And The Machine

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