While you cannot ensure your expectations are met, you can do 100% of your part. You can assert yourself and communicate—clearly and specifically—your expectations.
Author: morningcoffeetherapy
My name is Brooke, I currently practice in the Raleigh area as a counselor for individuals, couples, and families recovering from addiction.
Most of my writing comes from morning coffee reflection or a long run.
As a disclaimer, my writing is one perspective.
While reading, please assume it your responsibility to take what is helpful and leave the rest.
Peace. Love. Gratitude.
Email Contact: brooke@rnb4counseling.com
Simplify: Journal Prompt 8
Irritability pesters when you have not attended to your physical needs.
Simplify: Journal Prompt 7
There can be a lot of pressure to respond agreeably when something is asked of you. Simplify by hesitating in you responses—what you agree to, what you say yes or no to.
Simplify: Journal Prompt 6
Simplify through deciding where your energy is wasted.
Simplify: Journal Prompt 6
Simplify by identifying the direction of your internal stress.
Simplify: Journal Prompt 5
Simplify by identifying the direction of your internal stress.
Simplify: Journal Prompt 4
If you accept your responses, others will too. Don't temperature check the room to ensure your choices are okay. Trust yourself.
Simplify: Journal Prompt 3
Simplify can indeed be easy but more often it includes difficult, confrontational, and overwhelming, all in efforts to arrive at simple.
Simplify: Journal Prompt 2
Your choices, daily events, and relationships are moving you in a direction. A direction that aligns with your values or does not, feeds you emotionally or does not, keeps you safe or does not.
Simplify: Journal Prompt 1
This series will provide journal prompts to explore ways to simplify, in your mental health, relationships, and home. Especially as we enter the holiday season.
Mental Health & Journaling 