Last updated on February 7th, 2022 at 02:21 pm
The list of things that we get told to do after becoming Mothers is endless. Sorry to add to it, but this one is different! It’s not a telling-off this time, it’s a helpful idea to boost your wellbeing, your confidence and preserve precious memories. Here’s why you should be journaling Motherhood.
1. Lighten the Load
Journalling can help relieve the anxiety of overwhelming thoughts. As a new mother, the mental load is heavy and emotions are high.
Taking some time each day to write in a journal can be immensely helpful. Getting those thoughts and feelings out of your mind and onto paper can lighten the weight from your shoulders instantly.
2. Preserve Precious Memories
Being a new mum is tiring! And you’d be surprised just how much a lack of sleep and wildly changing hormones affect your memory. Journaling will make a record of your early days of parenting that will prove to be a unique keepsake later on.
In years to come, when you get out your journal you’ll instantly be transported back to those moments with your baby, that newborn smell, and the thoughts and questions you had. Many of which, would probably have been lost and forgotten without journaling!
You’ll be able to compare how you once imagined the future with your grown-up child, to how it actually is!
3. Get Better Perspective
Your journal can become a really useful tool to help you look back with clarity and make sense of events such as family disagreements or emotional struggles.
Seeing your relationships on paper can give you perspective. Likewise, reading your conversations back after the emotions have settled can show you if you were perhaps in the wrong, or give you a chance to see what would have been a better way to deal with it.
Communicating with yourself, on paper, is good practice for improving your communication with others.
4. Practice Self Care
Tracking your mood in a journal can be a good way to check in with yourself. New mums can often be so caught up with getting to grips with their new life, they can forget to think about their own mental health.
Journaling your daily thoughts and feelings can be a good way to track the upwards or downwards trajectory of your moods. It’ll also reveal patterns or triggers to you – improving your self-awareness and enabling you to better avoid negativity or do more of what makes you happy.
5. Create a Priceless Gift for Your Child
Our childhood memories are dear and precious to us all. Oftentimes they are fuzzy and jumbled, as our child’s minds processed things in a different and less clear way than we would as an adult.
Keeping a journal documenting the first few years of a child’s life is a precious and invaluably rich source of nostalgia and sentiment for the child, once grown. What a beautiful gift to give them!
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