INTRApersonal Interactive Journaling

What Clients Say

About INTRApersonal Journaling

 

If you find it helpful to write as a part of your recovery/self-discovery, this service might be of interest to you. I asked clients with whom I have been doing Interactional Journaling to offer their perspectives:
 

• As someone who is already in the habit of journaling, this Journaling with Thom has helped me create and reinforce a stronger compassionate recovery voice in my daily writing. For me, when I journal by myself, it is often the same thought pattern over-and-over again. It is very nice to have negative thought patterns interrupted by someone who supports me in recovery. Because journaling is something I do on a regular basis, adding a new, helpful voice has really helped to change my thinking.
 

• Unlike my Zoom sessions with Thom (which are also helpful) journaling can take place when I am feeling more distress, because I can write whenever I choose. A lot of times in therapy I forget how I felt when I was really needing help, when I was extremely miserable, anxious, sad, guilty. In writing I can express what I need to say in that moment.
 

• Writing alone can feel lonely. At first it was scary to include someone else but it has really been worth the risk. Interactional Journaling moves me to have a more problem-solving mindset when I know that I am sharing my writing with someone else.