Blog Articles About Journaling

Journaling with Chronic Illness Finding Inspiration for Creativity

Creativity can be a wonderful distraction and comfort when you live with chronic illness. One way to express yourself creatively is by designing and decorating your planner or notebook. You have a host of choices,, including doodling, drawing, collage, using washi tape and stickers and so much more This is the fourth and (so far)…

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Journaling with chronic illness: tracking your life. some of the ways you can use your planner (or journal or notebook) to track your life, chronic illness style. Graphic shows the title of the post, local for The Seated View, and a photo of her hands tracking something in a journal

Journaling with Chronic Illness: Tracking Your Life

  Using a journal when you have a chronic illness can be helpful in many different ways. In the first post of this series, I talked about using expressive writing to process your feelings and thoughts and as a tool to cope. But as any bullet journaler knows, your notebook can also be a fantastic…

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Jounraling and Chronic Illness: My Favourite Supplies. Pens, markers, and scissions in a brown cup

Journaling With Chronic Illness: My Favourite Supplies

Journaling can be a wonderful way to process your feelings around chronic illness, as well as a creative outlet that doesn’t need you to use a lot of energy or movement. Win-win, right? At its core, journaling is about thoughts, a pen and a notebook — or your phone or computer, if handwriting is difficult….

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