Journaling Helps Me Deal With Depression & Memory Loss — It Can Help You Too
Daily journaling is the habit that keeps on giving and can make a real difference in your recovery.
I’m used to being forgetful. I’ve spent years coming up with solutions for all the things I kept forgetting.
Then I started forgetting parts of my life.
A few years back, my husband and I were rearranging all our digital files and discovered some pictures from around 18 years ago. I recognized myself and my kids in the pictures, but I remembered nothing else about them — the people, the place, nothing.
Just the Wake Up Call I Needed
I realized that I needed to get a handle on how I tracked my memories, my emotions, and my life.
I started bullet journaling and that helped my day-to-day memory issues. I’d always kept a personal journal, but I wasn’t consistent. Once I decided it was important, I made it part of my morning routine. My practice is similar to writing ‘morning pages’ like Julia Cameron suggests in her book, The Artist’s Way (Except I rarely hit three pages).
