Leaflo Blog: Essays and notes for calmer evenings

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Sep 15, 2026

An Anxiety Journal Example for When the Feeling Is Vague but Loud

Nick Skorobogatko Designer, Leaflo

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Sep 15, 2026

What Is an Anxiety Journal—and What Should It Help You Understand?

An anxiety journal records one anxious episode: the worry as a sentence, the prediction inside it, and one next step. What that format answers, and what it does not.

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Sep 15, 2026

How to start an anxiety journal when you do not know what to write yet

Start an anxiety journal from a trigger, not a schedule: ten minutes, four lines, a stopping rule, and one small next step instead of a conclusion.

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Sep 11, 2026

Guided Journaling vs Free Writing: Which One Helps When Thoughts Keep Looping?

Guided journaling contains a loop and ends the entry; free writing finds language for material that has settled. Choose by the state you are in, not by format loyalty.

You have not fixed the feeling, you have located what it was about and what you can do with it.

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Thoughts

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Aug 28, 2026

How to Use a Journal for Cognitive Restructuring Without Arguing With Yourself

A cognitive restructuring journal checks a thought against evidence in a fixed sequence — it works only when the evidence step stays descriptive instead of turning into a rebuttal.

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Jul 24, 2026

Why companies talk about employee mental health

Why workplace mental health support often ends with a meditation app, where that tool can help, and why it cannot replace better working conditions.

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Jul 22, 2026

Why we want to tell someone our secret

Why a secret sometimes needs a reader, why secret thoughts return, and how to understand what response you want without revealing too much.

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Jul 8, 2026

What to do when tasks pile up and procrastination gets worse

A practical way through a backlog: declare task bankruptcy, sort what is left by real consequence, choose three for today, and renegotiate the rest out loud.

One worksheet asks all four the same thing, and three of them answer badly.

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Sep 2, 2026

CBT Journal App vs Printable Worksheet: Which Fits the Moment You Need It?

A printable CBT worksheet wins at a desk with time to spare. A CBT journal app wins in a parked car or a stairwell. How to pick by where your hard moments happen.

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Aug 30, 2026

CBT Journal vs ChatGPT: Structure, Privacy, and Consistency for Difficult Emotions

Open-ended chat is the better tool while the problem is undefined; a fixed CBT flow is better once the feeling is loud. Compare shape, privacy scope, and consistency.

A number tells you the evening was grey. It doesn’t tell you which sentence made it that way.

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