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Journaling: From Awareness To Awesomeness

Journaling: From Awareness To Awesomeness

When I was a teenager, I hated reading last year’s journal. I would get mad at myself for the immature things I had written the year before. I would read about last year’s crush and lament “How on earth did I see anything in him? I was crazy to like that boy- he was so not worth it!” or I’d read a description of a new outfit I’d bought and cringe at Younger Me’s lack of style. I found reading those old journals a painful ordeal. It always ended up with the diary going into the garbage as I drowned...

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Ditching Technology: Journaling Is Still Best With Pen & Paper

Ditching Technology: Journaling Is Still Best With Pen & Paper

Millennials are known – and widely mocked – for their attachment to technology, and younger Gen Xers aren’t much better. But in certain moments, a keyboard and a touch screen can’t match the therapeutic power of plain old pen and paper. Early blog platforms and social media sites, including Live Journal and MySpace, created an environment where my friends and I felt comfortable communicating our internal struggles to the world. When Facebook came along, it felt therapeutic to document your every thought, including your opinion on lunch. Technology has been part of my life longer than it hasn’t, and I’m...

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