Simplify: Journal Prompt 9

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.

Simplify: Journal Prompt 8

Irritability pesters when you have not attended to your physical needs.

Thinking Patterns: Journal Prompt 4

The voice of this thought pattern focuses on minimizing. As if you are talking yourself out of your lived experience, minimizing the problem, the impact, or the experience.

Big Decisions: Journal Prompt 9

You can mentally prepare and process change by looking for on-ramps

Big Decisions: Journal Prompt 3

Rather, I am talking about the fear that is exaggerated. The fear that keeps you stagnant. A boat without an oar. Stranded.

Big Decisions: Journal Prompt 2

Your urge to make a big decision comes from something inside. A hope, longing, a need. - Journal Prompt: What do you need from your big decision? - Anger: Journal Prompt Series Day 3

Big Decisions: Journal Prompt 1

The warm-blanket decision to keep everything the same is familiar energy. It gives the illusion that it will require less of you.

Anxiety: Journal Prompt 8

Your attention has power to increase and decrease anxiety. You can marinate on a trigger like a slow cooker set on low for 10 hours. You can attend to a trigger, address what is in your control and move forward. You have influence over your attention. - Journal Prompt: My attention is on... - More … Continue reading Anxiety: Journal Prompt 8 →

Anxiety: Journal Prompt 7

If you struggle with anxiety, your physical surroundings can be an important variable. Extra noise and stimulation can feel disproportionally intense and overwhelming. - Likely you cannot control all the activity you experience in a day, but you have some control. You have influence over how much content you watch, the conversations you remain present … Continue reading Anxiety: Journal Prompt 7 →

Anxiety: Journal Prompt 6

Adjusting high expectations for yourself and others is a good place to start to better manage anxiety. - When expectations are high—difficult to sustain over a long period of time—it sets you up for failure, disappointment, and more anxiety. - Prompt: How might life be different for you with lowered expectations? - More on Anxiety … Continue reading Anxiety: Journal Prompt 6 →