• Most TMS books describe both the justification for and the process of journaling.
  
• Kelvin Gunnells has also put together a very helpful free guide to journaling in both Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF formats. http://www.etexwebservices.net/kelving
  
• If you sign up for Georgie Oldfield's bimonthly TMS recovery newsletter, you can download her "Top 25 tips for successful journaling." The newsletter is worth taking a look at, and you can unsubscribe whenever you wish. To subscribe, look at the top right hand corner of this page. The tips are fairly general. There are 19 pages of tips, but some representative ideas are "let the words flow uncensored," "forget about spelling or grammar," "dig deep," etc. Kelvin Gunnells' guide seems more specific, so this might be a good document to warm you up before Kelvin Gunnells' guide.
  
• Dr. David Schechter publishes a workbook that guides you through a 30 day program of journaling for 30 minutes every day.
• Steve Mensing, M.Ed., author of Your Emotional Power, has a page on his website about journaling and several posts on his forum with more tips.
• Nancy Selfridge's Freedom From Fibromyalgia has a 27 page chapter on "Journaling, Self-Talk, and Visualization."
• Ronald Siegal's Back Sense has also been recommended as having a good discussion of journaling.
  
• A reprinted Newsweek article on journaling
  
• Some relevant threads:
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  • Question about journaling
  • journaling Can journaling be as effective as psychotherapy?
    
  • World's oldest man and journaling...
  • Can someone please describe Journaling to me...
  • journaling questions
  • Starting over with journaling...back to zero
  • Journaling during periods of normalcy
  • Journaling Work on one item in your list of things bothering you every day.
  • Misconceptions - journaling/thinking psychological. "Don't replace your symptom obsession with journaling obsession. Keep it to the essentials and work on geting back to real life.
  • RSI-type TMS and journaling. You can use a recorder, but try to push through the pain
  • help with journaling. Privacy concerns and feelings about writing down negative emotions
  • Pain after journaling
    
  • Sharing a Journaling Epiphany. About a desire to be useful.
  • How many people have actually done journaling? Ans: A lot. And they found it very helpful.
  • Journaling 101 for TMS...tips and advice?
  • Journaling. Another good post
  • Nancy Selfridge about journaling
  • Article on the effect of journaling on health
  • Journaling Contains some interesting and more in depth posts.
  • What does it take to recover? Scroll down to Jim1999's post or start from the beginning.
    

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