{"id":4495,"date":"2017-02-21T07:50:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T14:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2017-02-21T07:50:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T14:50:58","slug":"journaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/2017\/02\/21\/journaling\/","title":{"rendered":"Journaling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Recently \u2013 as per my therapist\u2019s recommendation \u2013 I have begun journaling. At first, I\u2019ll be honest, I thought it would be quite boring and useless. I didn\u2019t really understand how it would help my anxiety at all. I didn\u2019t do anything for about 5 days after my therapist recommended I do that and then one day, I started to become very anxious and decided to just try it and see if it helped. And to my surprise, it helped me a great deal. Just writing out how I was feeling (mentally and physically) and quickly writing down my thoughts helped me work through it so quickly and easily. Once I had calmed down a bit, I wrote down how I was feeling then so I would remember how much this helped the next time I was feeling anxious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This incident happened at the beginning of January and ever since then, I\u2019ve been journaling quite a lot whenever I feel anxious or stressed. The pages are not very pretty and it\u2019s not something I plan on sharing with anyone, but the physical action of writing out my thoughts and getting them onto a piece of paper feels like I\u2019m taking them out of my head and helping to reduce my feelings of anxiety. I don\u2019t fully understand the science behind how or why it works, but it really does help a lot (at least for me).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I would recommend to anyone who struggles with anxiety to start just writing down how you\u2019re feeling or draw it out on a notebook or journal or scrap piece of paper. It doesn\u2019t need to be a neat, aesthetic-looking journal like you see on Tumblr or Instagram, it can just be scribbles and doodles or a messy stream-of-consciousness. But for me, journaling has helped me feel a lot less anxious every day. I think it\u2019s wonderful and can\u2019t recommend it enough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Written by Shelby Rogers<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently \u2013 as per my therapist\u2019s recommendation \u2013 I have begun journaling. At first, I\u2019ll be honest, I thought it would be quite boring and useless. I didn\u2019t really understand how it would help my anxiety at all. I didn\u2019t do anything for about 5 days after my therapist recommended I do that and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4496,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions\/4496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}