Journal Prompts for this blog post with my replies. Here, feel less alone by witnessing my most vulnerable spews!

       Reflective journaling is best described as a practice of writing about personal experiences with the intent to learn from them at a later time. Using as much detail as you’re comfortable with, you can keep “records” of how you’re feeling, why you’re feeling that way and what you want to do about it. Keeping these records for weeks, months, even years can be a great way to review progress later on and, in the beginning, to get to know yourself. It’s what I’ve been doing for a year and a half with the more recent quarter being using the Notepad app on my desktop. I type the date and time as such 1/23/2026 @ 12:34pm and when I click “save as”, it automatically puts the date and time as the filename, making it easy to keep organized by date by simply making a folder for each month.

TRIGGER WARNINGS: Childhood SA and Abuse, Childhood Neglect, Animal Abuse, Religious Indoctrination, Suicide Attempt Mentioned, Blood, Self-Harm.