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Hi friend, and welcome back to The Journaling Room. I’m your host, Kendall Snyder, and today we’re talking about a powerful, life-giving practice: journaling for emotional regulation.
Now before that phrase intimidates you, let me break it down. Emotional regulation simply means: being able to name, feel, and respond to your emotions in a healthy way.
We all experience intense emotions—sadness, fear, shame, frustration, disappointment—and sometimes we aren’t even sure why they hit us so hard. But when we don’t know how to process them, we tend to do one of two things: suppress them or act out of them. Either way, they end up running the show.
And that’s where journaling comes in.
Identify – Name – Validate – Shift
Let’s break it down:
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