Today's Good Life Project riff is a guest riff featuring a friend Katie Dahl about who's

the author of a book called Let It Out, a Journey Through Journaling, and not surprisingly,

this riff is all about journaling and how it can be a really powerful tool that is accessible

to pretty much anything to help you process, to help you be creative, to help you do a lot

of really cool things in your life.

Turning it over to Katie for a conversation about journaling and life.

I'm John on The Fields and this is Good Life Project.

So basically a couple of years ago, I was really in this unhappy place with my body and

healing my eating disorder and feeling really uncomfortable all the time.

And I wandered into a bookstore and I had a gift card and I saw across the way this

really beautiful journal.

Nobody told me to start journaling, nobody told me that it would be helpful.

I just gravitated towards it.

I walked over to it and I picked it up off the shelf and took it to the park and just

started writing.

And I remember it had different colored pages.

So the first few pages were yellow and then orange and then blue.

And I remember I thought to myself by the time I get to the blue pages, I'll be writing

all really positive happy things about myself and I'll be feeling completely different.

But right now I'm going to just be real and authentic and let everything about how I'm

feeling out of my head onto the page and just sort through it then.

And I did that and it felt so cathartic to get it out of my mind and see it all in

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