How to Journal Even When You Have ADHD

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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This Episode's Top Tips

Journaling allows us to think through our problems and improve our emotional well being
You've got a lot of options for how to journal - be it with pen and paper, digital, or an audio or video journal make sure you are choosing the option that is best for your ADHD brain.
To be successful at journaling we've got treat it like any other habit that we want to form and start off easy - by thinking ahead we can come up with strategies that will make it easier for us to sit down and actually write.
Remember to approach your journal with compassion - you're not going to be solving any problems just by beating yourself up.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:09.0	I'm your host, William Kerb, and on Hacking Your ADHD, I dig into the tools, strategies, and best practices that will help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:18.0	Today, I'm going to be talking about journaling.
0:21.1	When we're thinking about ADHD and journaling,
0:23.3	there are a lot of thoughts that might come up.
0:25.4	You might be thinking, there's no way I can just sit down and focus on writing for that long.
0:29.8	Or you might be thinking, I don't have time for that.
0:32.1	Or maybe you're thinking about that pile of journals that you've bought
0:34.8	that just seems to be getting higher and higher.
0:37.7	I know journaling can be intimidating, but in today's show, we're going to discuss the potential
0:42.4	benefits of writing a journal, work on figuring out what the best type of journal is for you,
0:46.5	and also, most importantly, some of the best ways to keep up with our journaling habit.
0:51.7	And with that, let's get on with the show.
1:06.0	I want to begin by saying that starting a journaling practice isn't easy, even more for those of us with ADHD. And if we just think about a few of the things involved, it's easy
1:10.0	to understand why. Finding time to sit down, staying focused on writing, and if we just think about a few of the things involved, it's easy to understand why.
1:11.4	Finding time to sit down, staying focused on writing, and then making it a daily practice,
1:16.3	can seem like a fairly daunting process. At the same time, though, all we're asking ourselves to do
1:21.4	is write out stuff that's already in our head. We aren't trying to create a great work here.
1:25.8	We're just sitting down and writing out our thoughts.
1:28.4	It's both simple and it's not.
1:30.6	Even when we do manage to get ourselves to sit down,
1:33.1	we can find ourselves being intimidated by staring at that blank page.
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