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*Intro to journaling to help process miscarriage and baby loss
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*Intro to journaling to help process miscarriage and baby loss

Introduction to Journaling

In this section, the speaker introduces the topic of journaling and its benefits. She shares that she has been journaling for years and it has helped her with her mental, physical, and emotional well-being.

Benefits of Journaling

  • Journaling provides a safe non-judgmental space to explore thoughts and feelings.
  • It helps reduce stress response by reducing heart rate and blood pressure.
  • Writing can help calm the fear center in the brain following a traumatic experience or loss.
  • Journaling can help us remember our babies, feel connected to them, and ourselves too when we experience trauma.
  • It can help clarify thoughts, identify patterns of thoughts, and tell your story.

Getting Started with Journaling

  • Get yourself a lovely journal or piece of paper that makes you smile.
  • Start small by making time for yourself in the morning or at night.
  • Acknowledge your thoughts to reduce self-silencing.

Conclusion

Journaling is an effective tool for processing grief and trauma. It provides a safe space to explore thoughts and feelings while also offering physiological benefits such as reducing stress response. Starting small with a lovely journal or piece of paper can be helpful in establishing a daily practice.

Benefits of Journaling

In this section, the speaker discusses the benefits of journaling as a tool for processing grief.

Benefits of Journaling

  • Journaling can create space to feel and think about something else.
  • It can reduce avoidance and help process grief.
  • Recording your journey can be helpful to look back on progress.
  • Free flow journaling is therapeutic and can be done for at least five minutes a day.

Daily Go-To Journal Points

In this section, the speaker offers daily go-to journal points that can help with processing grief.

Daily Go-To Journal Points

  • Let your pen flow and free write for at least three pages a day.
  • Ask yourself where you feel your grief in your body today.
  • Determine one thing you can do to support yourself today.
  • List five things you are grateful for in your life right now.

I understand the task. Let's get started!

Video description

In this short video I talk though the benefits of journaling and how it can help you to process your emotions and grief. I also offer a few daily prompts that might feel helpful. I encourage you to buy yourself a beautiful journal and treat this as a safe, non judgemental space for you to let your emotions flow out. I hope this video sets you up for other videos around journaling that I have made. Sending you so much love. Kel x More about FLY Mama and our trauma informed classes: FLY Mama is an online platform to support women through their motherhood journey. We offer support to women who have experienced birth trauma and also miscarriage and baby loss. We offer specialist trauma informed Yoga and Breathework classes to help regulate your nervous system as well as process and release energy and tension that is held in your body related to your experience. Our movement classes are safe and progressive and help you to heal and rebuild strength, connection and confidence in your body. We offer coaching to exploring how loss and trauma effects your identity and your world, journaling sessions to guide you as you navigate and process your feeling and sharing circles to help you connect with other women who have also experienced loss and trauma. Woven throughout our platform is our message to First Love Yourself- to empower you to care for yourself and give yourself permission to make the time that you deserve and need to navigate this difficult time. We hope that our classes offer support, inspiration and guidance to you and also remind you that you are not alone. To join our platform visit: https://www.yorkshireyogi.com/Fly-Mama/BOOKING-SYSTEM