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Karma Amputee
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Among The Living
Posts: 769
This forum has been my journal, since the third day of the journey and what's best is this is a journal with feedback. I would say it's not been painful at all for me to go back and read what I wrote, it's cool to see how far I have come and how much I have changed. I just wrote about everything and anything having to do with my recovery.
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Dancing in the Light
Posts: 61,513
I started a journal after a couple of years of sobriety because I still couldn't shake the feelings of shame and guilt. Someone here urged me to start writing, and I did and wrote for most of a year. I wrote everything negative that came into my mind and it was so helpful in unburdening me. When I was finished with the journal, I didn't re-read it, I burned it.
Belgian Sheepdog Adictee
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: In Today
Posts: 6,101
I have been journalling since early recovery. My sponsor urged me to try it and I did, at first really only putting the date and maybe a weather report. Slowly, more and more was making it from my brain, down my arm, through my fingers to the pen or pencil. I have found it extremely helpful all these years.
Yes, I reread them, later, sometimes much later, and they were even more helpful than when I first wrote them. They were also a good barometer as to how I was growing and changing in sobriety.
At 25 years, I had a 'burning' ceremony (for myself) of the first 20 years of my sobriety. Needless to say, I still journal and have an additional 8 years now.
To me it has been a 'tool' that I really would have 'cut myself short' had I not used.
J M H O
Love and hugs,
Yes, I reread them, later, sometimes much later, and they were even more helpful than when I first wrote them. They were also a good barometer as to how I was growing and changing in sobriety.
At 25 years, I had a 'burning' ceremony (for myself) of the first 20 years of my sobriety. Needless to say, I still journal and have an additional 8 years now.
To me it has been a 'tool' that I really would have 'cut myself short' had I not used.
J M H O
Love and hugs,
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