You’ve probably heard this before but if you’re a cancer survivor (or the care partner of a cancer survivor), writing down your feelings and thoughts in a journal is healing – emotionally, spiritually, and, many people think, physically.
Maybe you’ve tried. Maybe not. But I want to offer you some new ways of thinking about and practicing journaling that can help get you going or, if you’re already doing it, looking at it in a vital new way.
For instance: You don’t have to write in your journal every day! (I rarely use exclamation points in my writing, so you should know that this is important.) Write whenever you’re moved to, which might be twice a day, just sometimes, or once every two weeks. There is no reason to “should” yourself about writing – unless you’re not doing it at all. In that case, make a pact with yourself that for the next month, for instance, you’ll write three times a week, and at the end of that month, you’ll renegotiate with yourself..
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