I say go for it! I am trying to remind myself that I need a totally private space to write whatever makes me feel better, helps me...no one else has to see it!

You can either have it on your own computer-an old fashioned pen and paper or an journal here on this website where you can have it for your friends to read or just yourself

It looks very interesting. I have attempted journaling several times with no real system or direction. This sounds like you wind up with tangible results. Unfortunately the work shops are a bit pricey, but I get it. I don't know if the book would be enough to get going in the right direction. I think you should try it, but should have a therapist "nearby".
Delving into the past can be painful and it's a lot of work. But the payoff could be well worth it.

I use these 5 x 8 legal pads. I buy them by the three pack. I like them because they are small and easy to handle and use a Papermate Profile pen, buy those sometimes by the five pack. I love those pens, they write so smoothly. My journal is only as permanent as a three pack of those pads. When I am finished writing on all of the pages, I read them over once and then burn them. The stuff I write in them is deadly personal to me. All my writings are directed toward God. He already knows everything, so I don't have to be ashamed. I even use the salutation, Father. I love my time in the morning doing this. For a long time, I couldn't do this regularly because there was always someone around and I didn't feel comfortable baring my soul in the presence of another one. Now I can, and it's very cathartic. I write journal entries on DS, but these are dumb-mild compared to the stuff I burn. I have found when doing the morning journal, sometimes the thing I thought was bothering me turns out to be something else entirely. Sometimes my feelings are just feelings, and there is no explanation except for the way the light was hitting my optic nerve at a certain hour of the day. Strange, I agree, but that's what I do. I didn't know people go to workshops to learn how to do this.

I do some journalling but its just drivvel!

If a person keeps a journal on her/his computer, using Notepad for example -- then one has this following option : of cutting and pasting some of the entries, modifying and toning down if need be, and putting them on DS.

Or putting it all through a printer(easier to read months later)

In the course of things one may wind up with those fewjournal entries becoming improved, second drafts . . . . (Don't throw away that original version tho) . . . happy "scribbling" . :)

Nothing is drivel BillW, it's how you are feeling and it's good to validate your feelings. Hugs GB

it sounds like you are very interested, i say go for it. it is amazong what can happen once pen is in hand. i used to journal and i thought i had nothing to write about and then it was pages later.

ann54, your comment about the way you use your journals is very interesting.