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Understand what you feel
Articles on emotions, journaling and the link between what you think and what you feel. No clinical jargon and no miracle cures.
- WritingJournaling Prompts: 75 Questions for Every Kind of DayJournaling prompts for every kind of day: 75 questions grouped by need, how to use them in short sessions and one prompt answered step by step.
- WritingHow Do You Write a Diary? Steps and Two Example EntriesHow to write a diary in five steps, with two diary entry examples, ideas for days when you have nothing to say and tips to keep going past week one.
- EmotionsHow Do You Manage Your Emotions?How to manage emotions: the five emotion regulation strategies research describes, why suppressing feelings fails and what to do in the moment and afterward.
- Emotional journalWhat Is an Emotional Journal and How Do You Keep One?What an emotional journal is, how it differs from a regular diary and how to keep one step by step, with example entries and what research says.
- WritingWhat Is Journaling and How Do You Do It?What journaling is, how it differs from keeping a diary, the main types with examples, prompts to get started and what research says about doing it well.
- WritingWhat Is Therapeutic Writing? Exercises to Get StartedTherapeutic writing explained: what it is, the expressive writing exercise step by step, other therapeutic writing exercises and when to wait or get help.
- ThoughtsWhat Are Cognitive Distortions? 10 Types With ExamplesCognitive distortions explained: the 10 most common thinking traps with everyday examples, and how to catch them in writing before you believe the thought.
- EmotionsWhat Is the Emotion Wheel and How Do You Use It?The emotion wheel explained: Plutchik's eight basic emotions, how to read intensity, opposites and blends, and how to use it step by step to name what you feel.
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