Traditional journaling is a therapeutic activity for many birthmothers. Journaling, much like blogging, is a great way to work through any emotions you are feeling.

Journaling provides you with a way to release your emotions. You are not judged in your writings. It doesn’t matter how many spelling mistakes or grammatical errors you have in your writing. Journaling is for YOU to work through the many complicated emotions that come along with adoption and just life in and of its self.

If you are struggling with an issue or a decision, you can journal about it by writing the positives and the negatives of the situation and all of your thoughts and feelings surrounding both aspects. Sometimes this will help you put things in a better perspective.

I also like going back over time and reading my journal to see the progress I have made emotionally or to see what I went through at a certain time and where I am now.

Personally speaking, journaling is very therapeutic for me. Although I am a technical person and love doing things on my computer, I sometimes prefer the old fashioned traditional journaling. I don’t know why, but there is just something therapeutic about sitting somewhere quiet and going at it with my pen to the paper. Sometimes, I can tell I am angry or upset about something just by looking at my handwriting. My handwriting tends to look messier because I am trying to get things down on paper so quickly. When I’m happy my handwriting is very neat and deliberate.

If you presently do not journal, I encourage you to try and start. I really do find journaling a very healing and therapeutic activity that helps me work through my grief along with all the other emotions that come along with being a birthmother.

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