Family Anxiety, 2

Anxiety around family generates patterned body energy. It is learned, fortified, repeated, and repeated again. Journal Prompts: Around family, my body has learned to... I wish my body would...

Boundaries, With Yourself, 9

Stop gaslighting yourself, it's too much. Journal Prompt: ...is too much.

Boundaries, With Yourself, 8

Lost contact with yourself, means less sensitivity to self-abusive practices. Self-abusive practices... Harm. Restrict. Punish. Binge. Control. Demean. Journal Prompt: When I lose contact with myself, I...

Boundaries, With Yourself, 7

Over-stimulated children don’t do well, neither do you. A boundary for yourself is a boundary that respects your sensory experience. Journal Prompt: A boundary voting for less stimulation would...

Boundaries, With Yourself, 6

Boundaries with yourself is knowing that there is more to do and more to be, yet declaring that it is good enough.

Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 9

If panic attacks joystick your world, leading happens from fear, not intention. Journal Prompt: My intention is to...

Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 8

The prospect of another panic attack can recoil any forward efforts. Back in line, no risks allowed. Avoidance hotel stays welcome. Journal Prompt: My life feels smaller...

Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 7

A panic attack is not random. Panic attacks can be activated by something specific, think noun, a person, place, or a thing. Or, panic attacks can happen without a specific trigger, and be a byproduct of stockpiling stressors. It resembles a full balloon slipping from your fingers while you are trying to insert the final puff of stress. Journal Prompts: Nouns that historically trigger panic attacks for me are... I am stockpiling...

Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 6

A panic attack is the Super Bowl for loss of control feelings. Journal Prompt: I most fear losing control of...

Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 5

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...