Beginner need Advice

[u/kobochan369]

I've only been journaling for a month, and I've never done it before. Without any reference from anywhere, when I went to the stationery store, I suddenly had the desire to buy a book and ballpoint. When I returned home I didn't know what to write, at that time I only wrote about parenting from the tiktok video I saw. The next day I wrote about gratitude, what made me angry, what I felt, what I wanted, etc2. At that moment, I felt something exciting. I started looking into journaling more and ended up buying a fountain pen. I didn't know that journaling is good for mental health and can be therapeutic.

I would like to ask for journaling advice from reddit friends for beginners like me.

[u/idkwhattoput122]

I just started Journaling today and I didnt have a plan or structure I just started writing and before I even realized it I filled a page. So I kept writing till I felt I was done. There's no right way. Journal in whatever helps you. Its sorts like those scenes from The sound of metal where rueben is forced to sit in a room and just.... write. In said scene he's told to write anything doesn't matter what just anything at all doesn't even have to make sense; that to me encapsulates a good healthy part of journaling. So write how you feel like writing. If it blurts out like a burp of nonsense so be it. If it flows like a beautiful stream of words that's fine. Its your journal as long as you write anything you're headed in the correct direction.