Guided journaling is a facilitated approach to journaling, which helps you to focus on a specific topic or theme through prompts—writing down your thoughts and experiences—which improves mindfulness and can ease the introduction to the practice of journaling. Journaling is a simple tool that you can use anytime to help you process emotions, reduce worry, improve productivity, and increase gratitude and self-compassion through reflective thinking. Read on to learn more about why Journaling is one of our most popular classes on WellSet.
How it Works
Guided journaling uses prompts to guide the flow of writing in one’s journal. Often prompts will encourage deeper thinking as it brings up ideas or questions that may not have otherwise been considered; it can involve different techniques, such as visualization or realization. Simply writing down your thoughts and feelings in guided or individual journalling can help you understand them more clearly. Many use journaling to track their emotions, reflect on dreams, boost self-esteem, and build a gratitude practice. Journaling allows you to process and work through your experiences and emotions, and is a great self-care practice to incorporate into a daily self-care routine.
The Evidence
Journaling helps manage anxiety, reduce stress and cope with depression by helping us to better understand and control emotions, recognize triggers and develop positive self-talk. Writing in a journal creates a practice of mindfulness, which can help develop emotional awareness by providing a way to approach and respond to emotions.
For those who have experienced traumatic events, journaling has been found to result in improvements in physical and psychological health; it has also been found to aid in the process of addiction recovery.
“Through my journaling practice I allow myself to look within.” –real WellSet user
The Benefits
Try a guided journaling class if you’re experiencing:
- Anxiety
- Stress
- Depression
- PTSD or trauma
- Addiction
- Low self-esteem
- Physical pain or ailments
- Blockages with individual journaling
What Our Instructors Say
"Journaling can be a helpful tool to help you learn more about yourself, release stress and heal trauma. My passion is to help people heal their heart. To look at the fears and pains we experience as an opportunity to grow and empower ourselves." –Elizabeth Winkler
Why Members Love It
“Writing down my thoughts helped me process emotions more clearly and create space to actively choose how to respond to difficult situations.” –real WellSet user
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