Your Relationship with Alcohol, 1

More than the number of drinks and how many days in a week you consume, the function of your drinking is arguably a more significant variable.

Change, 9

Your nervous system interprets change as a threat. It resists the lack of predictability. It responds, no thanks. - Journal Prompts: My nervous system has not become used to... I need the predictability of...

Change, 8

There are days it is unavailable to stomach change. If today is that day. Let it be. Rather than gathering sand with a toothpick, resign for the day. It is more important to know where you are at today and work from a place of your reality. You can try again tomorrow to merge with change. - Journal Prompts: Today it feels unavailable to... Today I need to resign from...

Change, 7

Or you live in resistance of change. You avoid and ignore. Scream defiance. Disassociate on demand.

Change, 6

Change feels fake. Cues around you claim there has been change, yet your body has not kept up with reality. The body separates on cue, instinctively it responds, but quickly whiplashed. You are again reminded, that’s not how it is anymore. _ Journal Prompts: My body still responds to... I experience whiplash when...

Change, 5

Change brings opportunity to re-evaluate what is sacred. It brings time into focus. It challenges your default settings. _ Journal Prompt: My default setting is to... The thing that is sacred that I am not doing...

Change, 4

Change is confrontation with your identity. _ Journal Prompt: With this change, I am...

Change, 3

Like your short-lived stick vacuum, change leaves behind remnants that must be dealt with. Journal Prompts: I am not sure what to do with... Change has left behind...

Change, 2

A dripping faucet fills a bowl, a fire hose floods your living room. Change happens slowly, and all at once. Journal Prompts: The change happening for me overnight... The change that is happening slowly...

Change, 1

Lying on wilted and tired grass, we look upward, and there is movement. We realize that movement and change is always happening. There is longing for what was. There is longing for what could be. We see change that harms. Change that brings new. And change we don’t know what to do with. Journal Prompts: Change means... I don’t know what to do with...