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 Change

Change happens, all at once, slowly, with relapse, with a lot of help, and with none at all. Journal Prompt: To find change I need...

A Journal Prompt for Recovery

In recovery, you allot effort to live differently than you once did. You resign thinking, living, and behavior that you’ve paid too dearly to maintain. Journal Prompt: I wish I could allot time to...

A Journal Prompt for the Grief in Setting Boundaries

Setting a boundary triggers grief. Choosing to not be mistreated can mean loss of connection. Setting a boundary around a controlling parent, might mean less contact. Shedding the part of you that was okay for awhile with how it was, means you lose the comfortable and predictable feeling. Journal Prompt: If I set a boundary, I will grieve...

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...

A Journal Prompt for Relationships

Problems fog in distorted truth. If more relationships chose honesty, conflicts would be shorter. Within yourself, with others, peace can’t settle in dishonesty. Journal Prompt: I could be more honest with...

Patience with Yourself

My toddler screamed out of porportion to an offense today. Her cart was stuck between the door and the toy box. With colorful sound effects, she slammed the cart repeatedly as if her grit would overtake the physics. She was a mirror to abandoned patience within myself. Journal Prompt: What would it be like to be patient with yourself?

A Journal Prompt for Relationships

If you want increased emotional equality in your relationship, you must build a tolerance muscle to hold and hear pain. Not fixing pain, not taking responsibility for it, but allowing, inviting, and making space for it. Journal Prompt: I have trouble tolerating...

A Journal Prompt for Acceptance

When you remain fingers clenched to an image of how life is supposed to be, you suffer. You become immobile to flow. Could you broaden the thin margins? Might you open your hands? Journal Prompt: Life was supposed to be...