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Hi' I'm Jason,
This is how and why I came to create Write Through Journals and why I'd like to give something back.
Following an earlier than expected retirement of over two decades in the UK Fire and rescue service, I've used journalling as a key element in my 4 years of recovery since my diagnoses of Complex PTSD and related mental health conditions in 2020/2021.
- December 2020, my consultant psychiatrist asked me to look out of "The window" and tell her what I could see. She followed this by saying, "If you can't talk about it, write it down". I couldn't see what I should have seen through "The window" or ever talked about anything.
At that time I thought this was a very simplistic approach to the complexities of my mental health and where it had brought me.
However, I gave it a go.
- I started to look through "My window", I wrote about what I saw through "My window", I looked back through "My window", then I talked about what I'd seen through "My window".
- Fast forward to 2025, I create my own windows to look through, I write through what I see through "My windows", I look back through "My windows".
I closed "The window" and opened "My window". Now I see whatever I choose to see through "My window".
- "The window" was clouded by my mental health.
- "My window" was the cause of my mental health.
- "My new window" is the one I see through clearly.
I've chosen a very simplistic design to the journal page, so the focus is on creating your own window and writing through what you choose to see through it.
I'm hoping to help someone get the help they need before they get to the point of looking through the window I was looking through in December 2020.
Thank you for reading
Regards
Jason