My secret journal

Since I started journalling a few months ago, it’s become one of the most helpful and insightful things I do for myself. Yet, for a long time, when friends talked about their ‘journals’, I dismissed the practice as the same as diary-keeping – to be restricted to teenagers wanting to detail their days away from prying parental eyes, or for reminders, such as ‘give cat worm pill’. Away in far-flung places, I never wrote a word – why recount experiences when I was living the m? How wrong I was. Diaries may fundamentally be logbooks, but journals are your words about who you are.

My mind was changed by a work event. There, I met a woman who had impressed me with her self-belief and confidence. She amazed. me by saying that when her insecurities arise, she journals, and that by leaving them