In healthy relationships, you get to take—allow the people you love to show up for you, extend themselves, to be inconvenienced. To take, is a human part of mutual relationships.
Tag: Journal Prompts
Relationships: Journal Prompt 3
Anyone is capable of giving. Giving happens through your time, attention, emotions, actions—it is the intentional move toward your people. It is reorganizing your priorities and allowing someone to float to the top of the list. Giving requires your awareness. Giving in a relationship, requires slowing down, observing, and looking for opportunities to show up. … Continue reading Relationships: Journal Prompt 3
Relationships: Journal Prompt 2
Giving and taking is an expected part of any relationship, but when it is out of balance, in one direction, and for too long, they break down.
Relationships: Journal Prompt 1
The roots of your conflict often show up in two areas–differentiation and secure attachment. To thrive, relationships need both individual space and connected safety, a deficit in either can cause tension and conflict in your relationship.
Not Depressed, Heart Broken
What if you considered your depressive symptoms as heart broken?
Avoidance
Fleeting comfort is your reward for avoidance–a short-term sigh of relief.
New beginnings: Journal Prompt 9
How you internalize and process relapse will be a vital component for sustainable change.
New beginnings: Journal Prompt 8
New beginnings need reminders–a mantra, a bracelet, a sign, a song, something.
New beginnings: Journal Prompt 7
A release of people, habits, or things, is an intentional rerouting of your attention.
New beginnings: Journal Prompt 6
Traversing toward new habits is most difficult when you have to live through the voids your old habits left behind. Your old habits need a successor. Without a successor, relapse is both easy to understand and functional problem solving.
Mental Health & Journaling 