Relationships June 15, 2018
Forget mood rings, try a mood tracker.
Tracking your mood is an amazing way to keep your emotions in check. You can either use a journal or an app to keep track of the rollercoaster of emotions you may experience daily. We should all consider utilizing some form of a mood tracker to improve our daily lives.
If you are one of the 20% of people who suffer from depression or one of the millions of people living with anxiety, a mood tracker is a great tool. Therapists endorse the use of mood tracker apps and journals to keep track of how you are feeling between appointments. This will make appointments smoother and your therapist will be able to help more. This way you have a system to articulate exactly how you feel, even when words can’t describe it. It can be hard to describe exactly how you feel sometimes. The good thing about mood trackers is that you can completely customize moods. For example, if you are unsure of how you are feeling you can blend moods or even make up new moods for when you’re not quite sure where your emotions are.
It always helps to see just how far you have come. It is empowering to see what we’re capable of.
Whether you choose to utilize a journal or an app, they are both very simple tools to utilize. The most popular method of using a journal as a mood tracker seems to be drawing a shape and coloring it in using colors chosen to represent different emotions. You can make your own, or purchase one from the internet! Amazon.com has a ton of them, as well as shops like Etsy . The Living Flower journal from Amazon is super cute, and this one from Etsy is printable and super cheap!
There are also some gorgeous custom-made mood trackers. Just scroll through the mood tracker tag on Instagram to see the amazing and creative mood trackers people have made! If you use a journal, you can really make it your own. You can draw anything you want to color in, or even print it out if you’re not too confident in your drawing abilities. When we customize things, we feel more connected and so we will be less likely to give up on it. If you put your voice into your mood tracker and make it personal, it will be less likely to fall by the wayside. A mood tracker is all about you so make sure to make it yours!
Yep, there’s an app for that. An amazing mood tracker apps are Moodtrack Social Diary, which turns your emotions into graphs. Another highly regarded mood tracker app is Daylio. It’s completely wordless for more visual thinkers and for those times when you can’t articulate how you feel. Another really cool mood tracker is WorryWatch. WorryWatch is a planner and mood tracker all in one. It is highly regarded because it keeps track of moments when you are anxious and it logs trends. When the app sees you have a triggering moment coming up, it will suggest breathing exercises. The apps are the perfect solution for the person who would rather use a phone than carry a journal.
You can use mood trackers to keep tabs on your physical health as well. After all, our physical well-being is interconnected with our mental health. If you custom-make your mood tracker, you can use it to track diet, exercise, sleep and other daily tasks! Some apps have features for daily tasks and suggest skills to combat anxiety based on what has worked for you before. Mood trackers really are a tool that you can benefit from due to how helpful they are, especially for people with anxiety and depression.
Whether it be custom made, store bought, or an app, a mood tracker should be everyone’s new best friend. With so many ways to make it work it is easy to integrate into your daily life. It is also an excuse to buy a pretty journal and who could pass that up?
