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Making My Journal Public Domain-Not For the Faint at Heart!!!

posted April 16, 2009 - 8:42am
Making My Journal Public Domain-Not For the Faint at Heart!!!

So I got on Xomba originally with the intent to post articles on event planning. Don't get me wrong-I'm still doing that, but I am also feeling the need to do more. I've been through a lot (who hasn't?), and the general concensus from pretty much everyone I've ever talked to about what I should do, is to put it down on paper and I would feel better. Therapy is expensive, and since I'm a single, unemployed mother of three children, I can't exactly afford it right now. So, I'm putting the two ideas together (writing it down and going to therapy). Here I am! What better way to get it out and get some therapy than share it with the world? Besides, if anyone else is nosy like me, it's fun to read about someone else's issues and give them your sound advice, even if you don't always practice what you preach. Here goes:
I am 32 years old. I have 3 children: an 8 yr-old boy, a 2 yr-old boy, and a 10 month-old girl. I am going through my second divorce, and just moved in with my sister and her family. I got laid off from an amazing and well-paying job in November and have been collecting unemployment ever since. I'm not proud of that, but it's hard to get another job when there aren't many jobs in the first place. AND, my soon-to-be ex-husband won't help pay for daycare. So, there I was, broke, living in a crappy little trailer, so far behind on my bills I was worried what I was going to do when the propane ran out.
But, that's getting ahead of myself. There's a lot more previous that got me to that point. I'm going to stop here for now, because I need to think about how I'm going to present the rest of my life to you. I can't wait to hear what you all think, and feel I should do. I feel better already!



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It is wonderful and practical!

Well, thanks for your sharing. It is setting a good example for others at the Xomba and the readers and the writers on the Internet. Thanks again!

Journaling is the best self-therapy

I keep a journal that I write in almost every night, but particularly when I am working on issues from my past. I grew up with an alcoholic abusive stepfather and indifferent mother and a lot of the emotions from that experience got pushed down inside until my late 30's when my son was born. I found myself getting mad at trivial things and it really accelerated once I started reading the Adult Children of Alcoholics Sourcebook because it was then that I realized what happened to me as a child was NOT okay. I don't want my son to experience what I experienced, so I began journaling as a means of expressing the emotions that randomly bubbled to the surface of my consciousness, sometimes adding inappropriate levels of emotion to the situation. Here we are over four years later and I am much healthier and much more well-adjusted and can look at past events with appropriate emotional distance. I still journal because I am still a "work in progress" but my point is that getting the noise out of our heads on a daily basis helps keep us balanced in the present moment and that to me is the greatest gift we can give our kids. Most of what I write is not for public consumption, although I do write articles from edited passages in my journal from time to time. Good luck to you and I look forward to reading your articles. CLICK HERE TO JOIN XOMBA TODAY!

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