Day 7 -  Relieve Stress With the Journal

Hi {!firstname_fix}

The email series about Journaling for Mental Health is almost over, but we still have a 
few great days left! Today is about stress and journaling. We have already discussed 
using your journal for anxiety and panic attacks, but don’t’ forget it can be really 
effective to relieving stress as well.

Everyone has stress in their life, from work stress to personal stress, but sometimes it 
gets to be so overwhelming, it is affecting other areas of your life. If you find that 
because of your stress, you are avoiding friends and family, your depression is 
worsening, or you are having a lot of physical ailments as a result of it, then it is time to 
do something about it. 

Journaling for Stress

As with other mental health issues, journaling is a wonderful way to help with your 
stress levels. With stress, the journal helps in multiple ways. It can help distract you, 
similar to how it works with anxiety and depression. But more so than that, the journal 
allows you to work through the problems and situations causing the stress in the first 
place, providing more clarity, and allowing you to focus on a solution.

This is one of the main differences between journaling for stress, and using it for 
something like anxiety or depression. 

Write in your journal every day, especially when you have high levels of stress. Be 
honest with yourself and you may be surprised by the outcome. 

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