The Many Benefits of Journaling: How It Can Help You Heal, Grow, and Succeed

Dara Laine Murray
8 min readJul 18, 2022

If you’re looking for a way to boost your productivity, improve your mental health, and achieve your goals, look no further than journaling. Reflective journaling has many benefits, such as reducing stress, improving memory, helping people recover from addiction, and promoting a general sense of well-being. It even offers a variety of unexpected physical health benefits, too!

In this post, we’ll discuss the many benefits of journaling and how you can start incorporating it into your life today!

The Benefits of Journaling
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What Is Journaling or Expressive Writing?

Journaling, or “expressive writing,” is the act of writing down your thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a journal or diary. It can be a therapeutic way to process your emotions and track your progress over time. Journaling can be as simple or as detailed as you like—there are no rules! You can write about whatever is on your mind, whether it’s your day-to-day thoughts or long-term goals.

Benefits of Journaling
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The Benefits of Journaling

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Dara Laine Murray

Multi-passionate sobriety writer on Medium. Day job: Director of Research at a nonprofit. Stories = sober + stats. Editor: https://medium.com/modern-sobriety