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...

Anxiety, 11

Limits. Manage anxiety by respecting your limits. Anxiety can happen when an entity/a person is asking something that is beyond a natural, human limit. Is our goal really to prove that we do not have limits? Then, instead of feeling a sense of achievement, we feel exhausted, we have yet again raised the bar, and conditioned people to our lack of limits. Limits are good. Limits keep us from resentment. Limits help us manage anxiety. Journal Prompt: If I do not respect my limits...

Anxiety, 10

Fight. Manage anxiety by wrestling with acceptance. You can fight with your anxiety, distracting you from the life you are hoping to be present for. Or you can make room for anxiety, accepting that it might be one part of you. Movement toward acceptance releases the pressure of control and allows you to adjust your attention to what matters to you. Journal Prompt: When I fight with anxiety, I miss...

Anxiety, 9

Tolerance Manage anxiety by increasing your tolerance for what is uncomfortable. When you cannot tolerate disappointing other people, you participate in a lot you are not interested in and blow past your boundaries. Thus stress and anxiety. Manage anxiety by increasing your capacity to tolerate what is uncomfortable without adjusting your boundaries. Build the muscle of: Tolerating the disappointment of others Tolerating the feeling of false guilt Tolerating other people's anxiety Journal Prompt: What do I need to tolerate to better manage my anxiety?

Rethinking

Too close to see her own hypocrisy, she didn’t realize she was teaching the very action she was condemning.

Feeling Your Way Through Depression, 2

Broken. Depression can feel like there is something broken in you. It can feel like you are broken to the point of feeling demoralized, that there may not be a way to fix it. Hope is gone. The clock is smashed on the floor with the parts splayed feet in every direction. Putting it back together is no longer worth it. Journal Prompts: I feel broken...

Feeling Your Way Through Depression, 1

Decline. Depression is a body-felt slowdown. Parts of you shut down, get ignored, even repressed. Journal Prompts: I feel slowdown... I ignore... I repress...

Finding your Values, 10

Evolution. You have considered what you respond to, your current season of life, your work, your relationships, what's absent, and what you admire. Have your values evolved? Journal Prompt: I value...

Finding your Values, 9

Admire What sort of values do you see from a distance and respect? Think through the spaces you currently experience–work, play, or out and about. What do you admire about the people around you? When you breeze by a couple spilling out the present moment, do you respond emotionally? Do you feel jealous? Depressed? Happy for them? When you watch people experience adventure? When you witness courage? When you notice authenticity? What can your reactions to the people around you tell you about what you value? Journal Prompt: I admire...