Beautiful discovery! I do journal almost daily and I highly recommend it to sort through your thoughts, to relax the emotions, to get perspective on whatever topic you have on your mind.
Actually, the memoir I decided to create and publish here on Substack serialized comes from re-reading my journals from those hard years and thinking, hey! there is a story in here, I have the rough draft of it all, when I journaled to make sense of it and to analyze the lessons I was getting from life.
(Also, you write and publish faster than I can keep up to read! haha)
Everyone I talked to so far has been quite positive about journaling, and yet, for some reason, I can 't quite bring myself to do it.
"(Also, you write and publish faster than I can keep up to read! haha)" Ha, and those are just the thoughts I manage to wrestle and write down. My head's a busy place sometimes ;).
It's beautiful ongoing memoir, by the way - the way personal and broader thoughts thread through each other makes for something that's both relatable and thought-inspiring.
I love journaling, both by typing, and by turning a mike on. They are my go-to’s when I’m struggling with something, probably more often than finding the right person to talk to about it. Highly recommend.
I save my audio journaling for when I'm hoping for something profound through the red light blinking at me as I'm chewing through my thoughts. So I usually do listen to and take notes on them after, to get that additional level of processing (and to make the insights from the recording easier to find).
Beautiful discovery! I do journal almost daily and I highly recommend it to sort through your thoughts, to relax the emotions, to get perspective on whatever topic you have on your mind.
Actually, the memoir I decided to create and publish here on Substack serialized comes from re-reading my journals from those hard years and thinking, hey! there is a story in here, I have the rough draft of it all, when I journaled to make sense of it and to analyze the lessons I was getting from life.
(Also, you write and publish faster than I can keep up to read! haha)
Everyone I talked to so far has been quite positive about journaling, and yet, for some reason, I can 't quite bring myself to do it.
"(Also, you write and publish faster than I can keep up to read! haha)" Ha, and those are just the thoughts I manage to wrestle and write down. My head's a busy place sometimes ;).
It's beautiful ongoing memoir, by the way - the way personal and broader thoughts thread through each other makes for something that's both relatable and thought-inspiring.
I love journaling, both by typing, and by turning a mike on. They are my go-to’s when I’m struggling with something, probably more often than finding the right person to talk to about it. Highly recommend.
Yes, I also audio journal! I turn on the recording app on my phone and speak into it when my eyes are too tired.
Also, Ben, I love your profile description, 'Gunnar fan'! 😄😄👏🏼
I'm pretty much on Substack just for Gunnar :)
Audio journaling? Interesting. Do you listen to it later, or is it enough to speak it and then let it go?
I save my audio journaling for when I'm hoping for something profound through the red light blinking at me as I'm chewing through my thoughts. So I usually do listen to and take notes on them after, to get that additional level of processing (and to make the insights from the recording easier to find).
You've got a whole workflow set up! 😉