Tom KrieglsteinFounder, Global Keynote Speaker, Swift Kick Leadership · Founder and Award-Winning Keynote Speaker at Swift Kick Leadership

Unleash Your Inner Therapist: The Power of Journaling #collegelife #journalwriting

Name: Unleash Your Inner Therapist: The Power of Journaling #collegelife #journalwriting
Uploaded: 2023-04-07T00:43:53+00:00
Duration: 55 s
Channel: Tom Krieglstein
Description: In this personal monologue, Tom Krieglstein recounts how a campus speaker’s challenge during his freshman year prompted him to start journaling. He…

7 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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In this personal monologue, Tom Krieglstein recounts how a campus speaker’s challenge during his freshman year prompted him to start journaling. He describes his first entry—questioning his purpose—and reflects on the decades‑long habit that has produced thousands of journal pages. Krieglstein argues that writing thoughts and emotions onto paper is an inexpensive, highly effective therapeutic practice that helps him understand his internal mental and emotional states better than any other method, and he continues the practice to this day.

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When I was a freshman in college, a speaker came to our campus and he challenged the whole audience. He said, hey, I challenge all of you tonight to go home and write in a journal. It will be one of the most beneficial therapeutic things you can do while you're here. So that night I went home, I opened up my journal and wrote down for the first time in that journal. And I said, dear journal, I don't know why I'm here. Fast forward many, many years later, fast forward thousands and thousands of pages later, I can tell that writing your thoughts and your emotions, getting them out of your head and your body and onto a piece of paper is one of the most beneficial, cheapest therapeutic processes out there. And I continue to do it to this day. And it helps me to understand what's going on in here and what's going on in here better than anything else. I have.