HOW TO JOURNAL FOR MENTAL HEALTH 💙 » Journaling Prompts to Release Anxiety + Negative Emotions

HOW TO JOURNAL FOR MENTAL HEALTH 💙 » Journaling Prompts to Release Anxiety + Negative Emotions



How to Journal for Mental Health 💙» Beginners Journaling Exercise to Start Journaling for mental health, Self Improvement & Anxiety. Perfect to Release Negative Emotions! (Included: Journaling Prompts + Free Guide)

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✨Download the Free Journaling for Mental Health Exercise ✨
↳ Which includes Journal Prompts to help you release anxiety and your negative emotions 💛 http://bit.ly/2ZAdcAX

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Journaling! 💛 It’s one of my favorite things to do and is something that has helped me TREMENDOUSLY on my mental health journey. BUT, I also fully know that sometimes journaling can be intimidating, especially for beginners…so in this video, I am laying out a very easy, simple, and dare I say fun (lol) journaling exercise for how to journal for mental health. This exercise includes journaling prompts for anxiety and to help you release negative emotions.

This year (and last) have been filled with tons of ups and downs, and in some cases an increased dose of anxiety, so don’t feel bad if you have a lot of emotions to work through! Take your time through the process and give yourself some grace on this mental health journey – healing is on the other side 💛And I'm here in it with you too my friend!

Don’t forget to download the exercise worksheet to help walk you through all of the journaling prompts! I can’t wait to hear how it all helps!

LET’S GO!!!

#naeslaugh #journalingformentalhealth #journalingpromptsformentalhealth #journalingforanxiety

✨ D I G I T A L J O U R N A L I N G A P P ✨

↳ 📱Journey App https://bit.ly/JourneyJournalApp

✨ C A T C H U P ✨

↳ 📘Easy Journaling for Beginners https://youtu.be/MXITTbeLDfA
↳ ☀️Habits for more positivity + happiness https://youtu.be/T89H-4eAkBo
↳ 🍃Prompts to Find your core life values https://youtu.be/4Hdp9blL1sY
↳ 🤔 Why you lack self-awareness https://youtu.be/QtInX1wTaUQ
↳ 🤓Embrace your quirks unapologetically https://youtu.be/SpThpnZDtas

✨ T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S ✨

0:00​ Journaling for mental health
1:09​ What is mental health?
1:52​ How can journaling help?
3:33​ Journaling for mental health exercise
9:38​ Purpose of this journal prompt exercise

✨ R E S O U R C E S ✨

↳ 🌟Free Guide to Discover Your Top 5 Core Values Today https://bit.ly/3k7WwbX
↳ 💖Free Journaling Exercise to Release Negative Emotions http://bit.ly/2ZAdcAX

✨ F A V O R I T E T O O L S ✨

↳ Tube Buddy https://www.tubebuddy.com/naeslaugh
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Please note that while I will, at all times, exercise my best professional efforts, skill, and deep care, the content I provide should not replace the care of a licensed therapist or health care provider. If you are in need of psychological counseling, therapy, or medical advice, please seek assistance from your doctor. Much love my friend!
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Sending you SOO much love! 😍

– Okay, you asked about journaling tips and here they are. Journaling for mental health. How can you use journaling to
help release negative emotions and actually boost your mental health? I'm gonna walk you through an exercise that I actually do for myself to help me release negative emotions through the process of journaling. It's very simple, pointed, but effective. Let's get to it. (upbeat music) (Nae giggles) Hey guys, welcome back. If you're new here, my name is Nae and I post videos on how we can become intentional, unapologetic, and become self aware in our lives. If this is something that interests you, feel free to hit the subscribe button and join the family. So in my first journaling video, I brought you through the
very basics of journaling. How to get started if
you've never done it before or are completely intimidated and feel like it's extremely
hard and you'll never do it. If you haven't seen that video, I encourage you to take a look at it. I'll put a link in the
description down here, as well as in the cards up here. But in this video, I'm
gonna talk about how that exercise of journaling
can have a positive effect on our mental health. I'm gonna bring you through
an exercise to do that, but before we get into
that, what is mental health? So mental health is closely
related to how we think, how we act, how we feel. Closely linked to our mental health. Now, contrary to what
a lotta people believe, mental health or good mental
health does not equate to feeling amazing and happy all the time. It doesn't. That is not what good mental health is. Actually, it's the opposite. Good mental health is
knowing how to manage both positive and negative
emotions, not ignoring them, but knowing how to deal with them and react to them in an appropriate way. So that means like if
you're sad, you know, okay, I'm feeling the emotion of sad and I can also trace
back what is this thing? What actually made me sad? Now your mental health can
actually change over time and depends on many factors. Your life experiences,
relationships, social interactions, job loss, a pandemic. All of these can have an
effect on your mental health. But a lot of people have asked me, Nae, I'm dealing with this issue, but there are so many other people who have dealt with this same issue, but it seems to be
affecting me so much more. Why is that? I'm gonna get into the
journaling very soon but you have to understand this, two people can deal with the
same life event or experience, but deal with it in a
completely different way from each other. So here's an example. Suppose you are working late at work, but you're also coming home. You have to cook dinner. You have to take care of your kids. You're also balancing,
going to school at night. Your the demands are so much greater than someone else who
might be at your job, working the same amount of hours as you, but they go home and
their responsibilities are a lot less. The same experience,
working long hours at work, but the effect on them can
be completely different. And that's because if the demands or the life experience is greater than the person's ability to cope, it can affect their mental
health in a negative way. But when the ability to cope is greater than the person's life
experience or demands, it can lead to healthy mental health. So what's the solution? Increase our ability to cope, increase our mental health, and that's what we're
gonna do with journaling. So a lot of us use
journaling as a way to vent. And I completely advocate that. If you watch my other video, that is a method that I use
journaling for all the time. I love to vent in my journal. Love it. But what we don't want to do is stay in those negative emotions. So here's an exercise that
I want you guys to do. First, I want you to
take out a piece of paper or actually, you know what? I'm gonna make you guys a worksheet. Cue that. That the first thing I want you to write down is your emotion. What are you feeling right now? Are you feeling sad? Are you feeling frustrated? Are you feeling upset? Are you feeling annoyed? What are you feeling? I actually make a video on how to, because some people say
don't really know, like, I don't know how I'm
feeling, I don't know. So I'll make a video about that. Like how to actually pinpoint
what I'm feeling right now. ‘Cause right now I feel empty. So I got you. But if you do know, write down, how am I feeling right now? Number two, what's caused that emotion. This is the venting stage. You can write down every single
thing that you're feeling, why you're feeling that way, and everything that he said, he said, or your boss is doing or whatever. It's your time to write it out. Number three, what deeper thoughts because of this emotion
are you harboring on and even claiming as truth for yourself? Are you saying, oh my gosh, I will never blah, blah, blah. Or, oh my gosh, they
always blah, blah, blah. Or, oh, I am so blah, blah, blah. What are the extra baggage. Dig a little bit deeper. What is the extra thing
that you're holding on to with this emotion? Because the emotion is there but there's something underneath it. What are the deeper thoughts
that you're claiming as truth right now. Journal that. Number four. When have you had this feeling before? When has this feeling risen up in you and you felt like this before. So an example, suppose that
your initial emotion was fear and it's because you had
to give this presentation and you just felt like so inadequate and you said, I just, I can never present. I am just like not a good
speaker and blah, blah, blah. And I just can't do this and you're just venting all this out. Oh my gosh, I can't believe
they asked me blah, blah, blah. You're venting all this out. Think when have I felt this way before? When have I felt like I'm just
like so horrible at speaking? What have this happened before? Maybe in your past, you're remembering a time
where you were in school and like growing up in school, college, high school, elementary
school, whatever it might be. And maybe you felt extremely
unseen, disregarded, and like your opinion just didn't matter. Whenever you had to give a presentation, the teacher would kind
of like pass over you and just like look at somebody else and you felt like you had
thoughts in your head, but your opinion just didn't
seem to matter as much. So now when you have to
present to a larger group, at work or whatever it might be, you feel like why am I speaking anyway? No one really cares anyway. No one cares about how I'm thinking. And that is something that
you pushed down deep in you and is manifesting in this area right now. So when have you thought this before. Now, I will say that this
is a little bit hard to do because sometimes it's hard for us to remember things that
happened in our past and it makes us feel like, yeah, it just makes us feel
weird to go back in time and think about those things. But it is so necessary. I talk about this a lot, but in terms of becoming self aware, it is so necessary to
deal with the baggage that we have from our past. So many things that we're
dealing with today are rooted in the truth that we've
been telling you ourselves from years ago, years ago. So many of the truths that we're claiming today about ourselves, who we are, what we're capable of, is rooted in what we have grown up hearing or have told ourselves from years back. So we have to go back in time. So journal that. Number five is to write
down how you want to feel. Now, this is not just some
way ooey gooey type thing. It actually is scientific. Where we think about these happy emotions, I wanna feel brave. I wanna feel courageous. I wanna feel secure. I wanna feel these feelings. When we think about these emotions, our brain actually develops chemicals to match those feelings. Can you believe that? Oh, our brain is amazin'! But our brain actually develops chemicals to match those happy feelings. So even though you felt
like this in point one, you felt sad, frustrated,
whatever it might be. When we think about how I wanna feel, this is the time to dream. Time to like think I wanna feel secure. I want to feel like I am like capable. Our brain produces chemicals
to match that feeling. Okay, number six is to
challenge the thoughts. So I want you to look
back at number three. Those deeper thoughts that
you wrote down and journal. Is that really true? Am I really never? Or am I really always blank? And also are these thoughts mine, or are they other peoples? On the worksheet, I have some
questions that you can use to challenge this thought, because if you don't challenge it, it will keep going in our head, over and over and over
and over and over again. We gotta stop it. Is that really true? Number seven. What is true? Going back to presentation example. Maybe I'm nervous right now. I am nervous actually. But I am fully capable. I can do this. Like that is the truth. That is literally the truth. I may be nervous. That is a true, but I'm also capable. Two truths can be living
at the same exact time. They can be livin' at the same exact time. Maybe you're a person of faith and you're like, my finances
are extremely low right now, but I know God's gonna provide. He always does. Whatever your truth may
be, write that down. Number eight. What are some things that have proven that truth before? This your time to go
back in history, again, but actually in a positive way. What proves that you're capable? What proves that you'll be okay? What proves that you'll be secure? Find them, search for them. What things in your life has
proven that this thing is true. I want you to journal as
if it's true right now. Just write like it's true right now. I can present in front of people. I can talk in front of people. I am financially secure. I will be okay after this breakup. Write it as if it's true right now. Number nine, you're gonna write out how you can walk in this truth today. What small steps can you do to prove to yourself that
this is actually the truth? When we put action behind our words, our brain kicks into action
saying snap, she's doing it. She's not that afraid. Like maybe this is normal. Make this thing familiar by
proving it with your actions. So the purpose of this
exercise is to not pretend like your emotions don't exist, not to pretend like you're not feeling whatever you felt and to just ignore it. That is not the purpose of it. The purpose is to acknowledge
how you're feeling and learn how to manage
it in a healthy way and then actually control
what you can control. What you can control is how you think, how you act, and how you react. You can not control the situation. We can control how we choose to act and react to that situation. And that is what this journaling exercise will help you to do. I have a worksheet for you. Feel free to download it at the link below and you'll have all of these questions. These journal prompts there for you. What tactics have worked in
your mental health journey? Has journaling helped you. It's helped me tons and I love it so much. Be sure to share this with a friend who needs to release
some of their negativity or negative emotions. We all have them. It is a part of life, but we don't wanna hang
on to them too long. Subscribe and hit the bell so you get notified when I post it again and I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye-bye. (upbeat music)

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