Streaming in, static occupies your head, and electric currents file out to the fingers and toes. Not the currency of a budding first date, no, rather the current of tripping when your perpetrator has about caught up. When a panic attack takes over, it feels like the only thing. Journal Prompt: The take over of a panic attack feels like...
Category: Anxiety
Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 4
Panic attacks drag feelings of defeat. That is to say, you thought that you had been managing up until now, and then you are clotheslined. Time stands still. In mistrust, you stare beyond the sky. It feels unnecessary to get up anytime soon. Journal Prompt: I feel the most defeated when...
Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 3
Privacy agreements tend to be tossed aside in panic attacks. The once solo experience, bullies to the surface, leaving you with uninvited exposure. Journal Prompt: For me, panic attacks expose...
Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 2
Whether it is a bird flying by your alarm sensor or it is an actual threat, in panic, the body struggles to differentiate. Journal Prompt: Unintentional alarms go off when...
Feeling Your Way Through a Panic Attack, 1
What is a panic attack? In the anxiety family, panic attacks tend to dominate your attention and leave you feeling a primal and sweaty version of exhausted. Let’s take the next several days and unpack what happens to the mind and body when you experience a panic attack. Journal Prompt: Panic attacks happen for me when...
Journal Prompts for the Past
Is the past important to process? Or is it a torture chamber of your rumination, harrassing you with shame and disappointment? Processing the past finds advantage when it is blocking your current living. It feels particularly unhelpful when it is a mixed tape on repeat, playing only to punish. Journal Prompt: I still need to process... I need to leave behind...
A Journal Prompt for Hearing
Coincidently, when you are calm, you are biologically setup to hear and respond better. Journal Prompt: I could use more calm when...
A Journal Prompt for the Fixer
If i wasn't fixing, I would be...
Rumination, 5
Rumination tries to telling you who you are. You are wrong. You are not enough. You are embarrassing. Rumination needs you to update the mixed tape you have on repeat. Journal Prompt: My mixed tape says...
Rumination, 4
Writing releases the echo of rumination. Writing steps back from the curb. Ruminations become separate from you, not merged with you, not overtaking you, not all of you. Journal Prompt: If I stepped back I would see...