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My therapist laughed at my bullet journal habit, then asked to see it
I was sitting in her office on 4th Ave downtown, venting about how I couldn't stick with my habit tracker for more than two weeks straight. She just chuckled and said 'show me your journal'. So I handed it over. She flipped through maybe 10 pages, then pointed at my weekly spread where I had a color coded sleep log. She goes 'you realize you're tracking your anxiety about not tracking things, right?'. That hit weird. She was right - I had like 4 different habit trackers over 6 months and none of them lasted. Now I just write three things I did that day, no boxes to check or colors to pick. Has anyone else had a therapist or someone outside the bujo world call them out on their system?
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wren_carr1mo ago
My therapist had a similar reaction when I showed her my color coded mood tracker. She saw right through it and said I was basically creating more work to avoid actually feeling my feelings. That stung but she was right. I stripped it down to just a daily line with a single word describing my mood, no colors or symbols. Took me a few months to realize the simpler system actually helped me stay consistent.
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taylor_flores1mo ago
Wait, isn't the whole point of a mood tracker to avoid actually feeling your feelings?
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