Spinal Cord Injury Coping Skills: Journaling

At first, you may feel like your whole life has fallen apart as you are going through a lot of new emotions and situations every day. Your old world is gone, and it will be difficult to find the right place to start building an entirely new one in its stead.

At first, having a spinal cord injury (SCI) will change how you view everything – from relationships with friends or family members; what activities you want to pursue that are comfortable and accessible for someone in a wheelchair all day long; even down to problems that need solutions where decisions must be made which involve mobility equipment choices and rehabilitation strategies. Over time other aspects related to adapting back into society after such major changes occur at once.

Journaling has been shown to have many benefits, including helping you organize your thoughts and express feelings. It is also easy enough for anyone with a pen and paper or notepad on their phone because it doesn’t require any expensive equipment.

Benefits Of Journaling

Journaling is a way for those with spinal cord injuries to work through their feelings. It can be therapeutic both in the sense of getting all your thoughts out and being able to process them, as well as creating an outlet that you may not have been aware existed before now. Journaling will give you something concrete on which to focus during difficult times when it feels like everything else has fallen apart or doesn’t make any sense anymore.

Writing in a journal can help you relieve the stress that comes with challenging events. For example, maybe it’s been hard to get back into your old activities after spending time with friends and family or having an upcoming doctor appointment coming up. Putting these thoughts onto paper will release some of the tension from your mind so you’re able to relax again. This way, when life throws more challenges at you next go-around you will be better equipped for them.

Journaling is an excellent way to organize your thoughts and see the many different paths that you can pursue. You may have even changed some of your goals in life because of a spinal cord injury, which has caused you to rethink what it means for success. By journaling out all of these choices and coming up with easy-to-accomplish steps towards attaining them, not only do you get organized but also are able to stop worrying about things over which there is little control (and start doing).