Reduces Stress. An overabundance of stress can be damaging to your physical, mental, and emotional health.
Improves Immune Function. Believe it or not, expressive writing can strengthen your immunity and decrease your risk of illness.
Keeps Memory Sharp. Journaling helps keep your brain in tip-top shape.
Boosts Mood. A unique social and behavior outcome of journaling is this: it can improve your mood and give you a greater sense of overall emotional well-being and happiness.
Strengthens Emotional Functions. Related to mood is how journaling benefits overall emotional health: As journaling habits are developed, benefits become long-term, meaning that diarists become more in tune with their health by connecting with inner needs and desires
