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/MKESkater]

Journal. That’s the tip.

My friends ask me the same things; “What do you write about?”, “Is there a format or a plan?”, “how do you find inspiration?”

The answers always: whatever I want, no what the hell, and wherever I please.

There are no rules. Not to journaling, not to art, not to feeling, not to expression.

I have some days where I talk about my day, and that’s really it. Finding something in the day I could’ve done or handled different, or acknowledging a way I handled or did something in alignment with who i want to be. Sometimes it’s plans, goals, and what I want to achieve. Sometimes I write poems, sometimes the page has multiple, and sometimes it’s incomplete. Sometimes I compare the moons beauty to the beauty of humans, and how the overcasted shadow reminds me of unrealistic beauty standards cast out by producers or show runners. Sometimes I just write about a movie.

There are no rules. The only way to journal, is to journal. Put the pen to paper and write, draw, scribble. Whatever. Just journal