{"id":336,"date":"2019-07-20T12:16:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T16:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2019-07-19T21:19:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T01:19:06","slug":"soulful-saturday-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/20\/soulful-saturday-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"Soulful Saturday: Journals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Good day to you, my lovely readers. I hope your Saturday isn\u2019t as blistering hot as mine is! Summer has indeed arrived in my mind now, and I have many ventures afoot. However, that\u2019s not what we\u2019re here to talk about today- today is a day to dig deep in my soul. To that end, I came up with a likely cliche but notable topic: journaling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not an organized person. Bullet journals amaze me, and I love learning about them, but\u2026 I\u2019m just so bad at keeping up with things as it is. For me, it\u2019s just not yet something I can commit to. It\u2019s something that I can only wish I could do, for the time that is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, I\u2019m talking about the kind of journal you might have kept as a kid. Or a blog, just like this one right now. I\u2019m talking about journals that you spilled your heart into, that you treated like a close friend that knew all your secrets but would never fail to keep them that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been keeping journals since I was young. I\u2019ve always done it on and off, and sometimes they were more logs of things in my life, such as dreams and nightmares. But, for most times, I was writing journals because I needed an escape outside the internet. And, once on the internet, I found a way to share my experiences with others that I felt safe around: strangers on the net. All that through the art of blogging, which is very much akin to journaling, if you look at it the right way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s important to choose your audience though. Showing your therapist a rather morbid entry will make them worry you\u2019re going to do harm to someone else or you yourself. That happened to me, when I was sent to the hospital for ten days for suicidal ideation- I think I\u2019ve mentioned that before, actually! But still, that was all started by something so very simple: a copied page of my private journal on the computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing with journals is there\u2019s so many ways to use them. You can write paragraph after paragraph about your day or a topic, you can use it to remember your dreams, or even to organize your life. I got a new journal as part of a care package, and it\u2019s stunning- so stunning, I feel my current method of journaling doesn\u2019t do it justice. I\u2019ve merely been writing bullet note lists of things I found remarkable in some way that day. I fit three days on a single page! I look at it and I lack that joy that comes from writing my thoughts\u2026 So now, I must learn a better way to journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What kinds of journaling do you do, my friends? I bet hearing your methods will help me greatly in finding the right one for me and my new ally. That\u2019s my last request for today. That, and that you have a good weekend! Don\u2019t forget to stay hydrated! Okay? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good day to you, my lovely readers. I hope your Saturday isn\u2019t as blistering hot as mine is! Summer has indeed arrived in my mind now, and I have many ventures afoot. However, that\u2019s not what we\u2019re here to talk about today- today is a day to dig deep in my soul. To that end,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[33,2,4],"tags":[120,121,31,122],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8uAZQ-5q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}