Why Journaling is Important ? [ Does anybody know ?]

For me there were lots of reasons

• It made me accountable, I'd told a large community of people (you all) that I was giving up and you were following my progress: I didn't want to disappoint people here.
• It quickly became a place where friends would challenge me. I'd write something I'd planned or realised about my reboot and friends would disagree and so I'd think it through again or more deeply.
• It's somewhere to get support. When things are going badly and I'm tempted to relapse I write journal post and friends here dive in with supportive replies.
• It's a place where I can thrash through what I learn about myself and my recovery. Things like the relationship between masturbation and my porn addiction have taken me a long time to work through.
• It's somewhere I can refer people from other threads when a topic that I have worked on in my journal crops up.
• It's somewhere I can refer back to for key posts or just to reflect on my journey and how I've changed.
• Most of all it has proved to be a place where, as long as I remain honest, I can dig inty psyche and unravel the things that made porn so addictive to me.