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Please remember, though, this journal is for you and is not meant for anyone else to
read. Absolutely no one has the right to read your journal without your permission.
So, if you don’t feel that you completely trust those people you live with, be sure you
keep your journal safely locked away. Otherwise, you run the risk of not being
completely honest with yourself when you are making entries.

You may find that you start to write in your journal as though someone else was going
to read it and you may begin to edit out very important thoughts, feelings or ideas. If
you cannot use it spontaneously, it actually defeats the purpose of having a journal at
all. So be sure to keep it safe. It’s better to be safe than sorry.

Along with journaling, the Worksheets at the end of each chapter are indispensable
tools to help you overcome troublesome patterns in your life. Even if you don’t fully
understand the psychology behind a specific destructive life pattern, the worksheets
can help you begin to change it.

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