Thank you for this lovely article. It's amazing how much of our life happens under the make-believe facade of smiling and pretending everything is fine. Sometimes, deep down, we know something is not fine, it is out of balance, but we don't know what to do about it, and there are so many other things that need our attention, that it gets pushed under the facade of the smile.

My journal too has helped me see things I would never have seen. In fact, journaling helped me switch careers from software engineering to writing.