In my three decades of practice, I have recommended…

In my three decades of practice, I have recommended journaling to more patients than I can count. And I always explain it the same simple way. Journaling is like a grocery list. When you go to the supermarket, you know you will not remember everything, so you write it down. Journaling works the same way, except the ingredients are what you are actually going through in your day to day life, and the list at the end is how you want to handle it, or how you could have handled it better. Who should journal? Anyone. A child can journal. An adult can journal. There is no such thing as doing it better or worse. Write in English, Telugu, Hindi, or all three mixed together. Write beautifully or write in fragments. The point is never how it looks. The point is bringing your thoughts out of your head and onto a page where they cannot judge you back. When you are only thinking, a thousand thoughts arrive at once, tangled together. W