Day 3 -  Decide on a Direction for Your Journal

Hi {!firstname_fix}

Welcome back to the Journaling for Mental Health email series! By now, you should be 
aware of the many reasons journaling is effective for your mental health illnesses, as 
well as being ready with your journal and pen. 

Today you are going to choose a direction you want your journal to go. This is important 
to do before you actually start writing in your journal, since there are so many different 
types. For example, there are:

Daily journal 
Gratitude journal 
Trigger journal 
health or weight loss journal 
Bullet journal 
Combination journal 
Mindful journal

As you can see, there are a lot of options as far as what direction you want to go. A 
good way to figure out the type of journal to have is looking at your primary motivation. If 
you have depression, you might want a place where you can write how you’re feeling, 
while someone with anxiety may want to journal their triggers to reduce panic attacks.

Once you know what type of journal you want, it makes it easy to figure out how and 
when you will start writing in the journal. A gratitude journal might only be written in once 
at night, while daily journals are often written in several times throughout the day. 

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