A Journal Prompt for Relationships

If you want increased emotional equality in your relationship, you must build a tolerance muscle to hold and hear pain. Not fixing pain, not taking responsibility for it, but allowing, inviting, and making space for it. Journal Prompt: I have trouble tolerating...

A Journal Prompt for Acceptance

When you remain fingers clenched to an image of how life is supposed to be, you suffer. You become immobile to flow. Could you broaden the thin margins? Might you open your hands? Journal Prompt: Life was supposed to be...

This Year, I have lost…

This year, I have lost...

Fear, Personified

A story about how fear chases us.

A Journal Prompt for Anger

Anger functions like a distraction. All this construction site energy, and the real story is on the other side of the street, on a bench, ear buds in, and welling up with tears. Journal Prompt: Anger distracts me from...

A Journal Prompt for Boundaries

Communicating boundaries does not equal setting boundaries. Talking, sharing, asking, demanding, this is boundary communicating. This is preparation. Boundaries become something when you take action. Journal Prompt: No action provides...

A Journal Prompt for Stress

Stress is inevitable when what you ask yourself to do, outruns your resources. Journal Prompt: I run out of resources when...

Rumination, 6

Rumination exploits your fears. It takes advantage of something you avoid at all cost—embarrassment, shame, criticism—and puts it on repeat in your mind’s eye. Journal Prompt: My rumination takes advantage of...

Rumination, 5

Rumination tries to telling you who you are. You are wrong. You are not enough. You are embarrassing. Rumination needs you to update the mixed tape you have on repeat. Journal Prompt: My mixed tape says...

Rumination, 4

Writing releases the echo of rumination. Writing steps back from the curb. Ruminations become separate from you, not merged with you, not overtaking you, not all of you. Journal Prompt: If I stepped back I would see...