This is an excerpt from a YouTube interview with Stacey Lauren (Thin Thinking Podcast) in which she describes using voice notes as a personal processing tool during a mental-health breakdown. She recounts leaving voice notes for therapists/coaches (sometimes sending them, sometimes not), and introduces the idea of a private "venting voice note" that helps get thoughts out and provides immediate relief.
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It's really important that you have some kind of processing tool. So I use voice notes. And I discovered that system because I call it a system, but I discovered it because I was going through a breakdown myself. And I had a therapist or coach, a couple different people at the time, trying to help me put myself back together. And what I did was. I don't know if you've ever done this before, maybe with friends or anyone that you've worked with. Is I'm like, literally on my phone leaving a voice note. And I'm like, this happened and this happened, and I don't know what I'm going to do about this. And okay. And then I'm like. And then I send it, right? And then when they send it back, they're like, oh, maybe if you did this? Or can you pause for a minute and think about this? Whatever their advice is, like in a micro session. And then there was one time I, like, did the voice note, and I was like, wait, I don't have to send it anymore. I already feel better. Because sometimes just getting the thoughts out of your head is, like, all you need. And so in find your voice, I do it a lot with helping them process. But I also have something called a venting voice note that people don't have to share, but it just gets all the thoughts out of your head.