Journaling Rewires the Brain for Resilience: With Harvard Educators, #podcast #parenting #health

Can journaling be better than therapy? Not always, but sometimes it's exactly what your brain needs. A UCLA study found that putting your feelings into words actually calms the emotional part of your brain, and it activates the area responsible for focus and self-control. Therapy has many barriers. It's not always there when you need it. It can take time to find the exact right person. In fact, one of the most important things about getting successful therapy is having the rapport, that you need and the connection that you have with that person. Also, saving problems to talk about therapy, I mean, that could be useful in some instances, but reliving unpleasant experiences just because you have a therapy session coming, that can actually have negative consequences. So journaling is always right there for you. It's private, it's instant, and it's backed by science. You can do it anytime, anywhere. There's certain ways to do it that might be more useful than others.