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Some mental health journalling prompts found or adapted from the Dancing Through the Rain Blog:

What do you feel about your day today and why?

What made you feel happy today?

What made you feel uneasy today? 

What's one thing you are grateful for today

What makes you feel scared and why?

What makes you feel sad and why?

What makes you feel happy and why?

What makes you feel angry and why?

What makes you feel safe and why?

Who is someone you look up to and why?

When you are having a tough day, what do you do to cope and why does it help? Is there a better way to cope if this current method feels detrimental in some way?

When was a time where you were scared, but things turned out okay?

What about yourself are you proud of?

What about yourself do you hope to change?

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Journaling for self hep and discovery: understand your feelings

I started journaling in a really dark place, honestly for a bunch of reasons, but mainly I was having problems at school and my mom and other two relatives I really cared about were having some serious health issues.

Before that, I never really felt the need to write down what I felt, but I was on a weird place where I didn't feel like I could talk to anyone about my feelings, but I felt waaaay too much. It just had to come out one way or another, and one day I was so angry and sad, I just took a notebook and started writing a bunch of things I was dealing with.

If I'm going to be honest, those notes were really hatefull and sad, and eventually I decided to throw them away because after that period of my life was over I didn't like reading it or knowing it was on my house. However, I really do think just being able to have an outlet to speak freely about my issues, without fear of judgment, helped a lot.

Nowadays, I keep a journal where I write whenever I feel alone or want to remember a specific moment, and that is definitely one of my favorite things, so I wanted to make this post with some tips to help anyone thinking about journaling for self help:

Don't censor yourself : Write what you actually feel, try to be as honest as possible independently on what you think of that. Weather your feelings seem selfish, exaggerated, or unfair, the objective of journaling is understanding how you feel, and watering down what you actually want to say will just confuse you and force you to bottle up your feelings even further. If you can look at what you wrote later and realizeit doesn't reflect the person you want to be, that's when you can start trying to understand where those unwanted thoughts come from.

Write for your future self: Sometimes in life you just get stuck on some vicious circles, where you know a person or a action is bad for you, but then the moment of realisation is gone and you go back to those unwanted habits. If you feel like you should cut somebody off, stop doing something, going somewhere or whatever you feel like you need out of your life, make sure whenever you have the initial feeling of "oh my God, this is actually not good for me" you journal about when and why you felt that way. Even if later it turns out you gave up on taking action, with time you will be able to identify patterns more easily. If you always feel a certain way after hanging out with someone for example, you can see more clearly how you actually feel about the relationship on the future.

Journal the good too! : whenever something good happens, you might not feel as inclined to write about it because good days don't really feel like a burden you have to get out of your chest. However, whenever you can remember to write down a good memory I highly suggest you do so, it turns your journal into a sort of "time capsule", and whenever you need to be reminded on how fulfilled you can feel, the memories will be there. Something I like to do is collect little things like tickets, notes, panflets, etc. That can remind me of the places I went and of my friends and family.

Reread what you wrote : I feel like this has been implicit this whole time, but it's good to make it clear. Take time to reread what you say and reflect on patterns and emotions. If you want to make notes about what you realised reading your journal, that's really good too! Take a look on what is making you happy or sad and think about what you can do in the future to deal with this situations. And, just as a side note: if you want to write something on the margins, DO IT. Don't let the pressure to have a perfect artsy journal get to you. Write with colorful pen and markers if you feel like it would make it better to look at

Don't make it a chore: if you don't feel like writing, don't. If you do, write however many pages you want independent of having something big to say or not. If you want to go on a four pages rant about the new album you just downloaded or the new series you started, do so. Journaling can also be a way go cheer you up! But if you don't feel like you have anything to say fo a week, don't peer pressure yourself into writing everyday. If you feel like you need more motivation to use your journal, just find something to log in there that you actually like, you can turn it into a planner/ journal hybrid so you can use it every day, keep your lists in there (especially movie/TV shows / book lists, since those normally the ones people get more exited about). You can even make it a doodle book.

If you want some prompts ideas or more journaling tips, here are some places you can find useful on YouTube:

Lavanderie:

Kaitlin Grey

Abbey Sy:

Rashawnda James (linking her entire channel because her journaling Playlists doesn't have all of her journaling videos. She has a really cool series talking about journaling for depression, anxiety etc. And apparently she is a therapist, so if you are having trouble with that this is probably the best place)

I hope you find this helpful and see some confort in journaling! Good luck in your self discovery path 💕

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You don’t have to pretend it doesn’t hurt. You aren’t being too much.

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PositveSeed Channel

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Wood and Resin Lamps

Dada Atolye on Etsy

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My essentials to learn Italian

Beautiful people, I wanna show you all my fav websites/apps and other stuff which are so helpful to learn any language!

1) App Drops, every day you get 5 minus to revise or learn new vocab, I love the design and idea, its really easy to create a new habit! You can download it here iOS/Android 

2) Everyone knows it but I need to mention about that website because its one of my fav; ladies and gentlemen, its Duolingo!

3) Memrise works similar to the previous one, we can learn some small talks and useful or common phrases.

4) Warning! This app is as addictive as drugs (hehe). You can meet people all around the world, create a language exchange partnership and practice your target language (and also help your partner!), I don’t get why this app isn’t famous because its totally worthy! Lets check it out - Tandem! You can download it here iOS/Android (and thank me later!)

5) Btw, lets check also Tandem’s blog, its full of inspiring content.

6) That platform enables you alot courses and tutorings, also about languages. Futurelearn contains a few Italian courses, but you can learn anything you want!

7) I truly love podcasts! Its such an awesome idea when you have to clean up or cook and you can learn something new in the same time. Podcasts are getting commoner nowadays so feel free you find your fav one, but I wanna recommend you Coffee Break Italian (Spotify/iTunes). The English guy is talking with the Italian woman, so you don’t need to worry you wont understand anything because its English-italian podcast!

8) Quizlet when you wanna create your own set with new vocabulary, its much more effective than taking vocab notes.

When I will find any new ways I will create part 2, now please lemme know what’s helpful to you! Love you guys, have a nice day!

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Forensics and Flowers on Instagram / Etsy

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Varsha Lad on Instagram

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Art

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someone needs to screech at me to remind me to take studyblr pics:") im sorry for being so inactive

side note: happy pride to all my lgbtq+ followers / anons ! i know im not really vocal about social issues (even in reality) but i just wanted to let yall know that yall deserve all the love in the world :))🥰

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Poems & Words

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REBLOG IF

- you are a studyblr

- you are super friendly

- you love when people message you

- you want to support everyone in the community 

one thing i love about this community is that it is one big family and everyone is ready to support eachother. reblog this and follow the people that also reblog and start some super cute supportive friendships because you all deserve the best 

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studyblr (re?)introduction

hello study community !! i used to be @sarstudjo, and later tried moving to a side blog but i’m back to this account and want a fresh start ^^

about me

my name is sar and i go by she/her pronouns

i’m 19 and a leo hehe c:

i’m a POC (brown/desi; not in india tho)

2nd year business and finance student

i have difficulties with focusing (no i have not been diagnosed with adhd), memory and with numbers (ironic because i’m a finance student)

i’m currently trying to start learning more languages (french and spanish, maybe even korean so i can watch k dramas without subtitles or while studying)

i will be tracking #studysweven

studygram: @studysweven

interests

art !! i draw for fun maybe i’ll improve someday tho

learning about mental health and biology

philosophy, sociology and psychology: i really wanna a take a course in some of these in the future

CATS !! (send me cute cat pictures to be instant friends) and animals in general

recently started watching kdrama (if you have good comedy kdrama recommendations let me know !! so far ive finished waikiki 1 & 2, strong woman do bong soon and hotel del luna. currently watching goblin)

i like dressing up in different aesthetics depending on my mood??? idk i just like putting outfits together

anime and cartoons (i love bojack horseman so much, and also hands off eizouken)

i also wanna start bullet/art journaling

why a studyblr

so that i can hold myself accountable and try to be consistent with my productivity

the study community seems like a good place for me to make friends with people who have similar interests

maybe if i romanticize studying i would actually start enjoying it HAHA

i just really need motivation to study harder

wanna stay motivated for my online university semester

blogs that inspire me

@studylustre @study-van @luminous-studiess @almostreading @gaaaandaaaalf @myhoneststudyblr @tbhstudying @fivestarstudying @goblinstudies @emmastudies @studyign @studyquill @milkteastudies @studyplants @tatstudies @athenastudying @darkmacademia @nabasynth @cesarewrites @dungeonstudy @elleandhermione @softlystudying @teacomets @etudiaire @blushstudies @katsdesk @acataemic @warmhealer @stuhde @hannybstudies @study-fox @sonderstudy @studypetals @philology-studies

reblog if you wanna be mutuals ^^ i’d love to start making study community friends c:

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Follow @productive-tips for more tips like this, collected and posted daily! Handpicked and curated with love ❤

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last year i used to sleep from 5 am to 10 am every day and it was Not Good for me. i’ve gotten a couple of questions about my sleep schedule so i thought i’d share some tips that helped me adopt a healthier sleep schedule. enjoy 🛏💤

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❀ 06.16.2019 // u know when u buy a new pack of stickers and have to resist the urge to stick them everywhere? relatable (◕ ‿ ◕)