As our days get more complicated and our lives more complex, it seems that chaos abounds. Work, family, bills and obligations eat up our time, and keep us bouncing from one circumstance to another, like a pinball caught in a never-ending game.
Author, Maureen Daigle-Weaver believes that writing about your life, what we call ‘journaling,’ can improve job satisfaction, help solve unemployment, aid in juggling modern family dynamics, bring focus to marital and work relationships, and simply bring about a sense of emotional, physical and spiritual well-being.
She believes that people can derive benefits from journaling that they had never thought of before, including:
Trouble at Work
In a recession, many of us are holding down two jobs or just barely clinging to the one we have. Journaling can help you eject the stress and harness the positive feelings you have about your job and keep you on an even keel.
Family Matters
Taking care of a family financially is enough of a challenge in these times, let alone tending to a family’s emotional needs. Finding energy and focus at the end of a long day can be a dilemma, but journaling can help you prioritize your family’s needs along with your own.
Stress
So many of us live life off balance, lurching from one crisis to the next, without any ability to think or focus on what really should come next. Journaling can act both as a tool to help you vent as well as one to help you create order in your life from amidst the chaos. It can be a source of peace and serenity in a time when we all seem to need it the most.
About the Author: Maureen Daigle-Weaver, has a B.A. from the University of Toronto, and is the mother of three adult children and four grandchildren. author of Write Yourself Free: Conscious Living and Personal Peace Through the Power of the Pen (www.journalingforhappiness.com).
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This is so true!!! I blog now, and I find it so helpful, WHY? Because then I don’t have to vent to the BF, and everyone else, I can vent on my blog, whether people read it or not. I can always go back and read it when I’m not so stressed and see how I felt, it makes me feel so much better! Blogging is just like journalism, but public, if you don’t want to blog, you can always just write in a journal.