How Journaling Can Help You Heal

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An addiction is a dangerous disease that can take control from you faster than you may realize. You may think that you are just drinking socially and then you come to realize that you can’t stop drinking or doing drugs. This is very common among many addicts and it doesn’t mean that life is out of your reach. You can overcome your addiction. The first thing to realize is that you can take control whenever you want. You may need some advice, some help from others and some holistic ways to overcome your addiction, but you can do it. One of the ways that you can start to overcome your addiction that has helped many other recovering addicts is to get a journal. That may sound too easy to be true but there are so many ways that a journal can help in this process.

What are the benefits you can get from writing in a journal?

If you are trying to overcome your addiction getting a journal can help. There are many benefits of writing in a journal that you can have. One of the first ways that writing in a journal to overcome an addiction can help you is to restore your physical and mental health. If you can write down what you feel, what you think, what you need to do and more then you can have better organization over your life. You will also find that writing things down will help you to focus on things more when you are overcoming your addiction too. Another thing that you can benefit from by writing in a journal is that you will be able to track your progress. When you see on paper the progress you are making you are more likely to stay committed to what you are doing and you can feel more proud of yourself too. Keeping a journal when you are trying to overcome an addiction can also help you to reduce your stress levels, lower anxiety, lessen guilt and more.

How can writing in a journal to overcome an addiction work to help you?

Those who have addictions have many issues in their life in addition to their addiction and in order to overcome the addiction these issues must be handled. When you write in a journal you are able to analyze things that have happened to you and analyze how you will change or improve as well. Another way that journal writing works is that you are able to get a good perspective on things that are happening as well. Sometimes your mind is at war with what you actually believe. Writing things down can clear up your mind so that you can actually process what you think in a much healthier way.

What must you remember when you keep a journal to overcome your addiction?

If you plan to keep a journal to help you overcome your addiction you must remember that it is going to take time to figure out how to best work your journal so that it can help you. Some addicts find that it is easier to use more than one journal for different aspects of their recovery. Other addicts just use one journal. You must also remember that if you are going to use a journal to help you in recovery then you will have to write in it on a very regular basis. Just randomly doing so isn’t going to help.

Writing in a journal to overcome your addiction can be combined with other holistic methods of treating your addiction. You may find, as other addicts have when they were overcoming their addiction, that writing in a journal really can bring you back the control that you need to have over your life to start living a healthier lifestyle. Writing in a journal can also help you to see how much progress you are making in overcoming your addiction too. There are so many great benefits that you can get if you choose to journal in this process. Get your journal or journals today so that you can start overcoming your addiction today! What do you think? Sounds great right?

- Cara

References: 

http://www.promises.com/articles/relapse-prevention/journaling-in-recovery/