Yes, and addressing those problems is what I seek to accomplish by writing to myself about them. :) Highly verbose and time consuming journaling has gotten me

Yes, and addressing those problems is what I seek to accomplish by writing to myself about them. :) Highly verbose and time consuming journaling has gotten me through divorce, major career changes, single parenthood, relocation, a new relationship and a bunch of other life changes. I usually journal only a few times a week, but in the thick of that stuff, I needed much more than a 30 minute window each day to check in with myself about where I was at and where I was trying to get to each day. Sometimes I spent hours. I took a year and a half away from it — which turned out to be by far one of the most impulsive and reckless periods of my life!