Voicelore is a simple journaling tool. It is not therapy, not a crisis service and not a substitute for professional help. If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, please contact your local emergency number or a crisis line right away.
How people use it alongside therapy
- Capture moments as they happen. A trigger, a conversation, a feeling you couldn't name – recorded while it's fresh.
- Prepare for the session. Read the week's transcripts before your appointment and pick what you want to talk about.
- Do between-session exercises. If your therapist suggests reflecting or noting thoughts, speaking can be easier than writing.
- Notice patterns. Seeing the same theme in five entries is different from vaguely feeling it.
It's a good idea to tell your therapist you're keeping a voice journal – they may suggest prompts that fit your work together.
Why speaking can help
Research on expressive writing suggests that putting experiences and feelings into words can be helpful for many people, and one randomised study found that talking about stressful events worked at least as well as writing about them. Research on "affect labelling" also suggests that naming a feeling can reduce its intensity. These are modest, average effects – not a treatment. More in What the research actually says.
Prompts that work between sessions
- What happened today that I want to bring to my next session?
- What am I feeling right now? Can I name it more precisely?
- What thought keeps coming back – and what would I say to a friend who had it?
- What helped me today, even a little?
- What do I want to remember from my last session?
Privacy
- Your transcripts are stored encrypted on our servers in the EU.
- Recordings are transcribed by our speech-recognition provider; we don't sell data.
- You can ask us to delete your data at any time. Details in our privacy policy.
If it brings things up
Talking about hard things can feel worse before it feels better. If entries regularly leave you feeling worse, keep them shorter, focus on what helped, and discuss it with your therapist.
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