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where we're going to be speaking about the pitfall of journaling when you're living with anxiety.

Welcome, Ananga.

Hey, Shen.

I'd be with you.

And this is a topic we haven't really covered much in the past.

As much as we've talked about the importance of journaling and how helpful it can be,

we haven't talked about the pitfalls.

Yeah, something that I've been thinking about recently, changing the way I journal.

And then I read a favorite author of mine, Fantastic Soul by the name of Josie George,

shared a post on Substack about how she was intending to change her journaling and her reasons for it and how she was changing it.

And it really resonated with me and what I'd been thinking about too.

And then I was thinking, you know, when we're living with anxiety, it's very easy to show up day after day and say, I feel anxious or I'm worried about this, I'm worried about

that, something to watch out for having balance in what we choose to write out.

Yeah, because a journal isn't so much a reflection of your life, your whole life, the big

picture of your life, as it is what you're focused on

in the moment that you're writing in your journal. And so what are we focused on?

Yeah. And it's funny because I was really thinking about that. And then I read this article on

Substack. And then I came across somebody on YouTube who I think a lot of people are familiar

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