Fill a Journal Page to Empty a Highly Sensitive Mind

Journaling has so many benefits. Journaling is an easy, inexpensive way to empty your mind, process emotions and order your thoughts.

Journaling Benefits

The beauty of writing down emotions, writing about your day, is that it allows your mind to be free of those thoughts.

It’s out there, captured on paper and we can move on in our heads.

Encouraging your child to talk about their day, to write down the highlights and the lowlights gives them a chance to process and digest anything that has happened that day – good and bad.

It also gives them a time capsule to refer back to, to see that they got through a day like this before.

A journal gives a child a place to capture their dreams, write down the silly and the crazy, put their own thoughts straight.

Writing things down helps clarify things in your child’s mind; it’s a great way of getting perspective.

Getting emotions on paper is also a great way of relieving tension and stress and may just get your child thinking about solutions to issues and problems instead of allowing them to escalate.

Those who journal also get to know themselves a little better – what makes you happy, angry or sad? What situations make you stressed? When are you at your happiest?

When tensions get high, when buckets get full, encourage your child to create a page of words, a page of sentences or a page of pictures or doodles – filling pages empties their minds.

Tip: There is a journal prompt sent out in the Happy Sensitive Kids newsletter each month. You can sign up here.

Great Journals for Kids

Katie Clemons

Katie Clemons is one of my favourite journal suppliers.

She has created gems such as the Time Capsule: A Seriously Awesome Journal.

Katie has two more journals purposefully designed to be passed between daughter and mother, or between a mother and her son.

Or between father and son, or father and daughter. Or even between grandmother and grandson. Such a beautiful idea!

The purpose of these journals can easily be summed up:

• Reflect on everyday joy, kindness, and gratitude.
• Think about relationships with other people and how we treat one another.
• Build self-esteem.
• Address the hard, frustrating, and scary stuff.
• Bond with family members.

Slaapklets for Dutch Speakers

Slaapklets is a fabulous journal series for kids. However, the issue for the non-Dutch speakers amongst you is that the journals are all in Dutch. But if your child speaks Dutch then this is a fabulous resource.

There are prompts and pictures with check boxes to sum up how your child feels.

There are breathing and visualisation exercises and fun things to try – all with the aim of calming a child’s mind.

So, if you speak Dutch I cannot recommend this book enough as a way to get your child to talk about their day. There is also a Slaapklets deel 2 recently out.

Over to You – Journaling Benefits?

Do you journal? Do you encourage your child to write in a journal? What journaling benefits do you see?