Bullet Journaling
This form of journaling combines planning and a to-do list in an organized method to express your thoughts. It is flexible because it can be geared toward any topic and the journal entry can be any desired length.
Bullet journaling is ideal for those who like to be precise and are fond of time management. It’s a great way to keep a log of your goals, accomplishments and gratitude lists. It helps with emotional tracking, such as notating your mood states and emotional stressors. Also, creativity is a huge component of bullet journaling. Designing your journal with color codes, pictures, and graphs is another way that bullet journaling appeals to some.
Guided Journaling
Contrary to the free-form journaling that may first come to mind, guided journaling offers an ordered approach for you to convey your thoughts and emotions in a deep and meaningful way. This form of journaling provides the writer with a prompt or question to promote personal reflection and encourage introspection. The writing prompts or questions can be tailored to meet the therapeutic needs of the patient. For example, it can address trauma, attachment concerns and/or interpersonal relationships.
Guided journaling engages the writer with structure and takes away the stress of brainstorming topics to write about. Guided journaling promotes deep contemplation on recent events, emotions and decision-making. Additionally, this format of journaling helps to process emotions and obtain clarity of your thoughts. This is also good practice to remain grounded and present in your thoughts and emotions.
Collage Journaling
Collage Journaling is a creative and therapeutic tool used to explore your thoughts and feelings. This format combines both written and visual art as an artistic approach of self-expression.
This format of journaling is open to the creator’s interpretation. Many visuals can be used in collage journaling such as photos, glitter, fabrics, paint, magazine and/or newspaper clippings.
For the creative individual, collage journaling can be a liberating and healing avenue to express the deep emotional wounds often associated with trauma. Aside from collage journaling being a method of emotional processing, it also guides one to creative expression and a visual way to present goals and accomplishments.
