Before Journaling As a doctor and a mother, I felt like I was constantly choosing-patients or children, duty or love. My mind was cluttered with guilt, my heart stretched thin, and I feared I wasn't enough in either role.

After journalling Using The Tall Elephant journal gave me space to pause and truly listen to myself. Through its prompts, I began to see that medicine and motherhood weren't pulling me apart-they were shaping me into a more grounded, empathetic version of myself. Instead of feeling divided, I feel aligned

I am a single woman and I stay alone. So, there is no family to talk to n friends are sometimes busy. Those are the times, I remember my journal. I will have this strong urge to share my thoughts but nobody to listen to. That's when I know my journal is waiting to hear my heart out.

My journal is my best buddy, I feel sorted after I write into my journal. There are days where things are tough, those days I pour my heart out to journaling. There are happy days as well, I capture those moments. I love my sticker book and my journal is my art.

Before journaling, my life was all about Excel sheets and deadlines. I never really understood my emotions—I was just running nonstop in the rat race, without truly living in the moment.

But after I started journaling, I began to understand myself better. I learned to feel gratitude, to value what I have, and to see how blessed I really am. The rat race doesn’t excite me anymore; instead, I try to stay present in each moment. The journey is still long, but I’m just glad I’ve started. And most of all, I’m grateful that my wife Sakshi showed this path.

Before Journaling
Life felt cluttered. My days blurred together, and I often went to bed wondering what I’d actually accomplished. Stress piled up, little things overwhelmed me, and I carried so many thoughts in my head that I couldn’t hear myself think. Gratitude was something I rarely slowed down to notice.

After Journaling
Life feels intentional. Writing helps me untangle my thoughts, celebrate small wins, and spot patterns I never saw before. I feel lighter, more grateful, and more focused on what truly matters. Instead of being swept along by the day, I now create it.

I have always been using a diary for random scribble and journaling without being consistent with it. Then I found the TTE journal and community where I understood the science behind journaling.  I found TTE in my toughest phase of life and journaling helped me immensely by getting through it. The journal was like a shell wherein I could fit inside and feel the safest and peaceful within. It reminded me everyday of focusing on myself first.

Before Journaling Never believed writing my thoughts could help me get mental peace, I found it as an additional task and when I started I felt overwhelmed if I missed writing for days.

After I understood journaling, it became my best friend and I talk to it. Sharing my emotions, organising my events, reflecting on bad days, all have been helping me slowly understand myself better and achieve my goal of responding and not reacting to life situations. 🩷

Before - Journaling used to feel like a solitary task — something I had to push myself into, just to create awareness about my days.

With TTE - It’s transformed into a fun community experience. I feel inspired by others, and it’s something I actually look forward to every day.

Before:I couldn’t see anything good in myself. I would go to other people and ask them for good things I possess. They would tell me a couple of things when I had a big list of good in them.

After: I still can recognise good in others. But now I know what’s good in me. I don’t have to reach out to someone to tell me what is good about me. I have become worthy in my own eyes.

Before Journaling, I was a mess who reacted immediately to my emotions which created havoc in my life. The irony was I had no clue that it was my emotions wrecking my brain.

After Journaling, I have come to a place where I can identify my emotions, triggers, pause and respond to my situations. My survival brain is taken to the backburner and logical brain is able to respond. I can reflect on where I could have done better and become a better person should the situations present themselves again. My relationships, not only with family but also with team have improved a lot. I am calmer thanks to everyday gratitude journaling and happiness jar. I can proudly say I am at a better place today.

I used to write randomly in a diary every year without any consistency or goal, it didn't make much difference in how I feel as I never understood my patterns, that is when I decided to make it better in 2022, luckily I came across TTE in my hunt and became a part of it, it gave me a structured way to organise my thoughts on paper. Regular journaling with a monthly recap helped me find my patterns. Knowing my patterns made it easy for me to make tweaks to my daily routine and make each day better and feel better.

Before journalling As a working mom of two toddlers under two,I was constantly overwhelmed and triggered throughout the day. To cope up with that, i used to eat a lot of junkfood and used to binge watch YouTube just to escape from my emotions. On some days, I used to be so down in the dumps because I used to be triggered by what others in my family used to comment. Even the small things used to trigger me and make me cry and I felt very lonely. I used to project the same onto my kids as I used to get irritated when they did the teeniest naughtiness and used to shout so much

After journaling I learnt that my emotions are all over the place. In the past i used to blame those who are living with me for my emotional state. Now after journalling I realised that our emotions are dependent on our reactions and that they are interconnected with many things like what we eat a day and even to what we watch , like a movie. Now I feel more in control of my emotions although still work in progress

Before journaling I never had a space to put down my thoughts and emotions , never knew the reason why I’m behaving in a particular manner. I used to sit and cry when things didn’t go as planned as a mom of two and husband working abroad it’s not easy 

After journaling I know me , my emotions and why I behaved that way. I don’t feel helpless rather I feel that I have the power to change the way i behave,I don’t lose hope but I make plans on what can be done to rectify the situation I’m a much happier person after journaling