Benefits of journaling in your healing journey

AI created this image of a pile of my journals! I didn't' record that stage but still have some so will!

• Emotional Processing - writing feelings down helps move emotions out of the body and onto the page. This can reduce overwhelm and create emotional clarity.

• Nervous System Support - Gentle reflective writing can calm the mind and help regulate stress responses by creating space for pause, breathe and awareness.

• Self-Connection - Journaling encourages a deeper relationship with intuition, inner wisdom and personal truth.

• Clarity and reflection - Writing often reveals patterns, needs, fears and desires that may feel tangled in the mind.

• Healing through expression - Creative self expression supports emotional release, resilience and self-understanding.

• Presence over Perfection - Journaling is not about consistency or performance. Healing happens when we meet ourselves honestly. Even just for a few quiet moments.

A gentle approach to journaling

Let's get a few things out the way!

There is no "correct" way to journal!

Some days you may write pages.

Some days only a sentence.

Some days the pages may stay blank.

All of it is valid.

Journaling becomes healing when we remove pressures and allow honesty to lead.

The Reiki Infused Journaling Oracle Deck helps those - who have kept diaries for years or those who open a journal and stare at the blank page not knowing what to write. It is tool for reflection and a guide through a journey of healing. Created from my own journey.

I had a pile a beautiful journals, diaries and notebooks. With some serious heartfelt emotional pages, endless lists of goals and to do's, beautiful memories and pages filled with emotional release over time. I tasked myself with going through them. It was hard at times. But mostly rewarding. It enabled me to see what i had overcome in the past which gave me hope for this new chapter I found myself on. Sometimes I laughed recalling the memories - some where worth keeping so I started a digital journal and wrote down meaningful facts, memories or details on specific days of the year. Then I started noticing the patterns, What started as a wish to declutter two decades of journals lead me to declutter some emotions, pull my big girl pants on and face some realities but mostly it lead me back to my first love of storytelling and heartfelt writing for healing.

As i went through the piles of diaries and realised the patterns emerging of me wanting things or achievements year in and year out and nothing was changing. Or the feelings I wrote about myself and how I felt or how other people had made me feel I realised my resilience. How I always find a way back to myself. My strengths in overcoming seemingly huge heartbreaks or events and how this reflective exercise of looking back had brought me through many versions of myself and it wasn't as bad as I was making out. As i hit menopause my life became a pit of despair - I was aging, I was no longer needed as a Mother as my girls were all grown up on their own journey and I felt alone. Part of me had forgotten who I was in my own right. I identified the patterns so easily. Why had I not noticed them before?

But that is when my healing journey took a long meaningful road to a grounded and more healed version of myself. I know the journey is never ending but I am okay with that. I am now someone who knows they have purpose, that I have a gift to share with people who don't need to suffer like I did for all those years. I WISH I had a tool like this when I hit so many of the lifechanging experiences in my life. From marriage, divorce, child loss, marriage creating a blended family, dealing with ex's, step-children, births, deaths, immigration and building a new life from scratch. Financial struggles and breakthroughs, international families, my babies having babies, career stagnation, empty nest syndrome on and off over a few years to feeling totally lost. I wish I had this tool to lift me - give me focus on a daily basis to journal more. The good bits and that bad - why? For family storytelling and soul healing! And more importantly to not waste precious time!

Life is short - simples!

Get over the emotions as soon as you can - feel them - let them flow through you. Forgive easily as it actually only damages your own body and psyche. Laugh more. Reflect on those highlights when you do go through the rough patches. Recognise the patterns in life - what experiences you attract so that you can learn quicker and move on. No one in this world can do the work - but you!

Rather get through it and have move time to LIVE the way your soul contracted to come earth-side for! Get to your soul contract and journey so you have loads of time to enjoy it! All yourself to be heard through feeling all you came here to experience without getting stuck along the way. What you are here to do or have won't ever pass you by but it doesn't need to sit in background waiting so long for you if you put in the time to heal. To see the patterns repeating through generations so you can an stop them for your children. To see what you attract over and over again until you learn and move forward.

It all leads back to you and love. Let your light shine love into this life, the people you meet for a moment or a lifetime and what you have left put into Mother Earth. She needs more light!

Go shine!

Claire