Who Am I?

A Journey into
Journaling
Growing Pains series
What Is Journaling?

• A conversation with yourself

• Time to think about the day
• A way to process stressful events
• Getting things off your mind
 • Choose your special book
Set Yourself Up • Choose a special time
• Choose a special place
 • Ask yourself questions
• How am I feeling right now?
• What happened to me today?
• Who are my best friends and why?
What to Write • Letters
• Short stories and poems
About • Likes and dislikes
• Dreams
 My self

Things That Are

Important to Me
My job

My family
Are There Rules?

• Be honest
• Leave room to make changes
• Keep it private if you want
• Date your entries
 • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
• The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman

Famous • What I Know for Sure by Oprah

Winfrey
Examples • Journals by Kurt Cobain
• The Journals of Sylvia Plath
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau