Journaling vs Venting: Why One Helps and One Loops
The loop is not in the medium. Rumination splits into brooding and reflective pondering, and one item on the adaptive half is writing it down and analysing it.
The loop is not in the medium. Rumination splits into brooding and reflective pondering, and one item on the adaptive half is writing it down and analysing it.
Americans who write for personal interest spend 95 minutes doing it, per BLS. How many people journal is not measured anywhere, and the popular figures have no source.
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