Simplify: Journal Prompt 3

Simplify can indeed be easy but more often it includes difficult, confrontational, and overwhelming, all in efforts to arrive at simple.

Simplify: Journal Prompt 2

Your choices, daily events, and relationships are moving you in a direction. A direction that aligns with your values or does not, feeds you emotionally or does not, keeps you safe or does not.

Simplify: Journal Prompt 1

This series will provide journal prompts to explore ways to simplify, in your mental health, relationships, and home. Especially as we enter the holiday season.

Rest

No, rest happens submerged in the hustle. Deep breaths in-between hard work, in-between difficult relationships, in-between tragedy.

Thinking Patterns: Journal Prompt 10

Your thoughts follow patterns. Recognizable patterns. Find your pattern. Find distance and clarity.

Thinking Patterns: Journal Prompt 9

There is no room for forward movement in these thoughts. It has a flavor of protection, don't get close, I know who you are. People have been characterized. You have decided.

Thinking Patterns: Journal Prompt 8

Personalization, the thinking pattern that over indulges in responsibility.

Thinking Patterns: Journal Prompt 7

It is primal. This thought pattern functions to prepare and protect. Your brain sees a possibility—it ignores probability—and races to be ready for survival.

Thinking Patterns: Journal Prompt 6

The chaos of unfocused thinking helps you keep a 6-foot safe distance from your emotions. Consequently, it also keeps you from being present and connected to your life.

Thinking Patterns: Journal Prompt 5

A shameful thinking pattern is often loud and difficult to get distance from. Shameful thinking patterns often leave you feeling as though you don't belong, you aren't enough, or that something is wrong with you. Words like "should or must" are common indicators of shameful thinking patterns. I should have done that, what's wrong with … Continue reading Thinking Patterns: Journal Prompt 5 →