Life and journals......
Well I have to say life is good, there is always little ups and downs, and I panic sometimes for no reason, and sometimes for good reason! Sometimes it's hard to trust your intuition......
I am doing great with the hair pulling, my new counselor is helping immensely and it is the first time in YEARS that I have made through my PMS cycle without pulling my hair out....this is HUGE HUGE deal.....I haven't accomplished that in years, I just always shave my head when times are tough (as to not damage what little hair I have)....but not this time. I just have to keep my energy up and my anxiety low......she has been giving me tools that actually work to accomplish this........This recovery is definitely taking a priority in my life right now....
On the lighter side of life.....
Saw something interesting in the Barnes and Nobles the other day in the journal section....it is these kinds of journals that have questions that you answer on each page for what you want to accomplish.....
sounds confusing - for example......
There was one to create your own memoir so it has prompts and questions on each page, and by the time you get to the end you have a memoir done!
I bought one that is a self discovery journal and it is where you answer various questions in list form......and I LOVE making lists....I make them all the time for various reasons.....
There was also one where it documented books that you have read through your life......thought this was brilliant and I may have to get one of these as a gift for a friend.
There were others but these are the ones that really stuck out in my mind....
I also really like them because I have bought journal after journal that sit on my bookshelves looking pretty but with sad blank pages.....I don't know why I was never able to write in journals....maybe facing a blank page was just to daunting? Maybe since the invention of the computer it is just to tedious to write on paper, esp when you are writing pages at a time.....makes me wonder why I didn't think of trying to publish these kinds of journals!!!!!
So I never really kept a journal until I discovered online journals. But I liked the list making one, so we will see how it goes, if I keep writing in it!
I am doing great with the hair pulling, my new counselor is helping immensely and it is the first time in YEARS that I have made through my PMS cycle without pulling my hair out....this is HUGE HUGE deal.....I haven't accomplished that in years, I just always shave my head when times are tough (as to not damage what little hair I have)....but not this time. I just have to keep my energy up and my anxiety low......she has been giving me tools that actually work to accomplish this........This recovery is definitely taking a priority in my life right now....
On the lighter side of life.....
Saw something interesting in the Barnes and Nobles the other day in the journal section....it is these kinds of journals that have questions that you answer on each page for what you want to accomplish.....
sounds confusing - for example......
There was one to create your own memoir so it has prompts and questions on each page, and by the time you get to the end you have a memoir done!
I bought one that is a self discovery journal and it is where you answer various questions in list form......and I LOVE making lists....I make them all the time for various reasons.....
There was also one where it documented books that you have read through your life......thought this was brilliant and I may have to get one of these as a gift for a friend.
There were others but these are the ones that really stuck out in my mind....
I also really like them because I have bought journal after journal that sit on my bookshelves looking pretty but with sad blank pages.....I don't know why I was never able to write in journals....maybe facing a blank page was just to daunting? Maybe since the invention of the computer it is just to tedious to write on paper, esp when you are writing pages at a time.....makes me wonder why I didn't think of trying to publish these kinds of journals!!!!!
So I never really kept a journal until I discovered online journals. But I liked the list making one, so we will see how it goes, if I keep writing in it!