How Journaling Can Help You in Hard Times

How Journaling Can Help You in Hard Times
Journaling allows us to pause with our feelings, reflect, and move toward understanding and action. WAYHOME studio/Shutterstock
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On April 1, I had been quarantining in my downtown apartment for two weeks, and it was starting to become clear that this coronavirus thing wasn’t going away anytime soon.

As I often do in tough times, I turned to journaling. I decided I’d keep a record of my quarantine life through the month of April, a way to remember this crazy historical moment and process my feelings.

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