therapeutic journaling?

[ashleyprugh]

so, as i looked through the galleries, i noticed all the sweet comments on my latest layout for the sugarfree challenge. first off, thank you all. i do appreciate that. {{hugs}} you're all so kind!

back to my point. there are some layouts that i do and they seem therapeutic. like my 'broken' layout. and my 'fears' layout. and my 'bills' layout. i find that some of my layouts help get some of the emotions i have put down on paper.

so, i'm wondering. does anyone else do therapeutic layouts?

[Jennilyn]

I have done some therapeutic layouts, yep. Like my Speechless layout posted here...you might not be able to read the journaling on it, but it's about my daughter and how she's going to go to speech therapy because her speech isn't where it should be. At 18 months she was just saying "ma" and "da".

[FlirtatiousBrat]

I have done some therapeutic layouts, yep. Like my Speechless layout posted here...you might not be able to read the journaling on it, but it's about my daughter and how she's going to go to speech therapy because her speech isn't where it should be. At 18 months she was just saying "ma" and "da".

if it makes you feel any better..my son didn't talk hardly at all at FOUR and now he talks nonstop....

[scarletsierra]

Oh yes definitely. My Fears LO was definitely cathartic. I love some good journaling!

[ColleenSwerb]

I love deep journaling. I don't do it as often as I should (in my mind), but I always love the LO's that I end up creating with tons of deep journaling on them.

[mrs_jb]

I have a few that were really theraputic. And sometimes for me, it's a combination of the journaling and then actually letting other people read it... like letting my guard down a bit and letting people in.

[uptowngirl]

I haven't done much of it... it is hard for me to express those things sometimes. Plus, for me I spend so much time on the design aspect by the time I get to the journaling I am exhausted!

[amandabarugh]

I haven't done much of it... it is hard for me to express those things sometimes. Plus, for me I spend so much time on the design aspect by the time I get to the journaling I am exhausted!

This is me to a T. I have a hardtime doing hardcore journaling, as I tend to like to keep my demons my own.

[Brandy]

Most all of my layouts are like that. it's just my way of getting it out i guess

[BeccaBoo]

I don't do it as often as I should. I do love LOs with powerful journaling though!

[ditzyscrap]

When my son was diagnosed with Leukemia I started an album which I based on the book "Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life" about everything that my son was going through. I have only done about 10 pages, but the journaling for me was what got me starting to love journaling. Before that, I rarely wrote on pages because I just didn't know what to say - now there is rarely a page that doesn't include journaling. And yes, it was VERY therapeutic - without scrapping and the help of friends and family, I would have been a big puddle of helpless goo and not as strong as I was going through that. I found I got the best results for those pages when I was scared and worrying about him - it got the emotions on the page, the real emotions I was feeling at the time, and not just the positive "it will all turn out OK" feelings I had on good days.

[scrapmonkey]

I've done a few "therapeutic" LO's. Most were done in paper LO's. I did some about my dad's death, and about my health issues for instance. I try to do some of the Sugar Free challenges as I think they bring out important parts of ourselves.

[rach3975]

I've done a number of those. I've always found writing to be the easiest way for me to work through and come to terms with things, and some of that writing makes its way on to scrapbook pages. Sometimes what comes out is too personal, so I just use a portion of it on the actual page.

[ashleyprugh]

thanks for the feedback! i agree that it's easy to put it down on paper and get it out. {{hugs}} to all of you.

[LeeAndra]

Absolutely.

I created a divorce art journal to document all the feelings and changes I was going through during that time. It is definitely my most treasured album, though I do not have it publically posted anywhere, as it is the most honest and most vulnerable series of layouts I have done. They were unbelievably therapeutic for me to create and really helped with the healing process in a way that was very intuitive and satisfying for me.