Settling in to Surrender

Balancing Emotional Well-Being Through Journaling

In this episode:

• Hear about the power of journaling for balancing your emotional well-being

• Consider the benefits of emotional well-being, including a better outlook and reduced depression

• Discover the importance of balancing emotions for a more satisfying life.

• Think about the nature vs. nurture debate regarding emotional well-being

 As you listen: 

• Hear about my dilemma of creating a "perfect" life and its challenges

• Choose a side in the debate on whether emotional well-being is a genetic predisposition or learned behavior

• Get new journaling prompts for enhancing emotional well-being

 Resources Mentioned:

Episode Transcript and 5 Signal Journal Prompts: https://bexb.org/balance/

What Do You Want and Why Notebook: https://amzn.to/42MOeOm (affiliate link)

Build resilience through journaling. Overcome setbacks, boost mental strength with practical tips. Journal your way to a resilient mindset.

In today’s episode about building resilience through journaling, explore the concept of resilience, understand its possible impact on your daily life, and discover practical journaling techniques for building mental strength.

Learn how resilience affects your energy, mood, and posture. Discover how journaling can help in overcoming setbacks and gaining a proactive mindset.

 

Here’s why you want to listen:

- Understand resistance and resilience and their impacts on your energy, mood, and outlook

- Explore a bouncing back metaphor and how humans are not like bouncing balls

- Learn about threats to resilience like denial, trying to control, and wishful thinking

- Hear about the proactive role of journaling in building resilience

- Get some resilience prompts and practical tips for facing obstacles

 

And so much more!

 

Resources mentioned

Link to transcript and resilience journal prompts: https://bexb.org/resilience/ 

(affiliate links) 

Kinda Sweet, Kinda Savage blank journal: https://amzn.to/3SYW0Bs

Upcoming Book Club Selection - Its Not your Money by Tosha Silver: https://amzn.to/3SZHt8R

Get on the Waitlist for the Weekly-ish Book Club: https://bexb.org/membership/ 

 

Today we’re talking about emotional allowing through journaling.

In This Episode:

💔Explore the concept of emotional allowing through journaling

💔Hear about the physical and mental effects of not allowing emotions

💔Get some practical tips on using journaling as an emotion regulation strategy

💔Learn about recognizing and addressing emotional bypassing

 

Why Listen:

🤷‍♀️Discover how journaling can be a transformative tool to embrace, process, and understand your emotions. 

🤷‍♀️Learn about the impact of emotional repression and how journaling serves as a valuable outlet for emotional expression and regulation. 

🤷‍♀️Get insights into recognizing and avoiding emotional bypassing, developing a more authentic connection with your emotions.

 

Links mentioned in this episode: 

Daily Journal Prompts Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/journalingfriendship 

Last Week’s How to Start Journaling Episode with Sheridan https://bexb.org/start/

(Affiliate Links) 

Prompted Journal: Feel Your Feels https://amzn.to/3UDeuZB 

In My Emotions Era: Prompted Emotion Journal https://amzn.to/3SP0Np4 

Guided Notebook for Emotions: Self-care Feelings Journal https://amzn.to/3UuwQMo

Sheridan recently decided to get started with journaling. 

So I invited her (back) on to the podcast to tell us all about how her new journaling routine is going

In this episode, Sheridan shares 

💖 The benefits she wants to get from journaling (aka the reason she decided to start journaling)

💖 The real-life resistant thoughts she had about journaling and how 2 conversations with journalers helped her to drop the “should” and just start

💖 How perfectionism tried to sneak in to Sheridan’s journaling practice

💖 The specific, exact ways she is overcoming resistance and embracing imperfection in her own consistent journaling

The 2 of us also had so much fun talking about

👯‍♀️ Our strongly held beliefs about the importance of “the right pen” for journaling

👯‍♀️ Our theories on why we it might not be “the pen’s fault” but what we’re thinking as we’re journaling

👯‍♀️ Why and how to use bullet points when you’re pressed for time or have a lot to remember to write about

👯‍♀️ What you can tell yourself if you worry someone might read your journal

👯‍♀️ The awkwardness in journaling and re-reading journal entries

👯‍♀️ What we imagine it would be like to hear our journals read outloud

I’m so thankful Sheridan took time to talk with me about getting started with journaling. Our beautiful conversation is all about embracing authenticity, overcoming resistance, and finding joy in documenting life's journey.

https://bexb.org/start/ 

 

3 Suggestions for Getting Started with Journaling

• Decide a consistent journaling routine will be beneficial
• Start journaling immediately - on whatever type of journal you have access to right now (even if it's your phone)
• Be aware and prepared for any awkwardness

 

Journals we talked about (affiliate links)

A Melon Things to be Thankful For https://amzn.to/47U8AGA 

Anxiety Succs https://amzn.to/482h3rf 

Love Your Life Workbook https://amzn.to/3w9hNgM 

Other Podcasts we discussed

Journaling to Process your Day https://bexb.org/process/ 

Sheridan’s previous episodes:

Mercury in Retrograde - https://bexb.org/mercury/ 

Astrology - https://bexb.org/moon/ 

5 Years with Sheridan - https://bexb.org/sheridan/ 

Office Ladies  - https://officeladies.com/ 

 

Journal To Process Your Day

 

In This Episode:

👩‍🍳Structured Journaling Recipe: Follow a step-by-step process blending reflections, emotions, lessons, and gratitude.

👩‍🍳 Personalize it to Yourself: Make the recipe your own with personal preferences, time, and variables.

👩‍🍳 Be Proactive about Your Well-being: Uncover patterns, surprises, and a proactive approach to emotional well-being.

 

Why Listen:

🥄 Explore a fun cooking analogy as a journaling recipe

🥄 Hear some of my real journaling experiences and examples

🥄 Consider suggestions about how to reread your own journal to notice patterns and rediscover things you forgot

 

Resources Mentioned:

Transcript and Links: https://bexb.org/process/

What are You Making it Mean: https://amzn.to/48L6jPc 

It’s Not Your Money by Tosha Silver: https://amzn.to/3SvVr24

Journal for personal growth by understanding your potential, overcoming societal expectations, and setting intentions. 

Take intentional steps, overcome obstacles, and celebrate progress. Explore the power of journaling for self-discovery and transformation

 

Key Features:

🌱 Understand the concept of personal growth and potential.

🌱Connect worthiness with personal development.

🌱Hear practical tips for identifying and working through personal growth areas.

 

In This Episode Hear How YOU can:

✍🏻 Define your own personal growth and its components.

✍🏻Learn why you are a "Worthy Baby" and what that means

✍🏻Understand the resistance that might pop up in thinking about personal growth.

✍🏻Get some journaling suggestions for identifying, specifying, and celebrating personal growth areas.

Links and Resources Mentioned:

Get the full transcript and links at https://bexb.org/growth/

Mindset by Carol Dweck https://amzn.to/3U0EjT7  

100% Worthy Notebook https://amzn.to/425YPUq 

Good Vibes Daily Planner https://amzn.to/3TVnHMC 

Good Vibes Daily Planner Tour on YouTube https://youtu.be/W6Y1GG4NkFU

Journal with me on Zoom: https://bexb.org/letsmeet/ 

Relieve Stress through Journaling

Key Features:

Insights on Stress and Depression

Journaling Techniques for Prevention and Relief

Self-Awareness Exercise and Gratitude Journaling

Focus on Helping Others as a Coping Mechanism

 

In This Episode:

📈 Understanding Your Own Stress and Depression Triggers

📈 Journaling Ideas to Prevent and Alleviate Stress

📈 Three Journaling Techniques for Stress and Depression Relief

 

Why Listen:

🏥 You will get insight into stress and depression management

🏥 You will learn practical journaling techniques for mental well-being

🏥 You can discover ways you can identify triggers and patterns

 

Connect with Me:

Journal with me on Zoom - bexb.org/letsmeet

Paint with me in Chandler - bexb.org/painting

Get a Weekly Gentle Journaling Check In - bexb.org/weekly

 

Links & Resources Mentioned:

Transcript and Shownotes for this episode: bexb.org/stressjournaling

Self Awareness Exercise Notebook https://amzn.to/3vpJce6 

Gratitude Journal https://amzn.to/48pUEVZ 

Believe There is Good in the World Dot Graph Notebook  https://amzn.to/3vwwsCM

Here are the lessons I’m continuing to learn and a few I have learned from 2023. 

Plus, in this annual end of year wrap up episode, you’ll hear:

🎉 my current favorite meme

🎉 the big changes for me in 2023

🎉 a few surprises in 2023

🎉 lessons I’m learning + the ones I’ve finally learned

🎉 what I’m planning for 2024

 

And so much more - read the rest and see all the links at https://bexb.org/2023lessons

 

Attend one of my journaling or painting events? https://bexb.org/letsmeet/ 

Shop all irresistible journals + notebooks: http://bexb.org/quickshop

Get a weekly gentle journaling check in: https://bexb.org/weekly/

Find your Purpose Workshop + Discussion 

Do you have life purpose?

If you want to know

• how and why you feel stuck
• how to see possibilities (instead of feeling resistance)
• how to take action steps towards creating the life you want (even if you don’t know what that is yet

this workshop is for you!

If you are unsure of what, or how, or where to start in your life or if you can’t shake the feeling that something is missing and feeling lost and frustrated, listen to this workshop for some clarity and direction.

Want to get a prompted notebook to Help Find Your Purpose + Write your Manifesto? Here it is: https://amzn.to/3NVOOEd

Want more resources and information about finding your purpose? https://bexb.org/purpose/

Shop all irresistible journals + notebooks: http://bexb.org/quickshop

Get a weekly gentle journaling check in: https://bexb.org/weekly/