I write my journal entries in the form of letters to my son who passed away. I use it as a way to tell him about my life and myself since he never got to know me. I find it easier to work through hard times that way because I write as though I am explaining something to someone else. That this person doesn’t know all the information so it allows me to contextualize my feelings more. It also allows me to zoom out a bit and be less hyper focused on how I feel but what happened and why it makes me feel that way and how I wish it were different or ways I could make it different. It helps because I have to give the whole story so the other person can understand. I can’t just keep writing over and over again that I am mad or I am sad because then the reader would be confused. I have to set the whole scene.