Something I found kinda goofy but also so healing for me was selecting a journal that I would have loved as a kid. I went looking for a journal that would be sensible for me but I spotted a hello kitty journal and my “inner child” was begging for it. At first I felt foolish buying it as an older woman. I can’t explain why I find using my hello kitty journal as so healing but it makes me smile when I see it because I wanted one so bad as a child and as always told hello kitty isn’t sensible so my notebook were aways plain and sensible but now as a mature woman I’m using a journal I would have loved as a kid.
That is so beautiful! I love that you threw sensibility out the window and picked a journal that you needed. Good for you ❤️. Your inner child was probably so grateful.
I had a therapist get upset with me because I would not let him read any of my journals. I explained to him that the reason I wouldn’t is because then it would not be mine anymore. I would have to destroy it the way I did most of my journals when I found out one of my sisters-in-law read them.
That's interesting that a therapist asked you to read your journals. That would upset me too. Your sisters-in-law were so wrong for reading your journals. Such a violation of your privacy.
