Finding Community, 1

Your urge for a sense of belonging is a biological feature, not something you choose to add a la carte. - Journal Prompts: I belong... I want to experience belonging...

Work Out Your Mind, 9

Journal prompts for dismissing the inside.

Work Out Your Mind, 4

A prompt for observing your thoughts.

Family Anxiety, 5

Your body has athletic memory that cues hyper-vigilance and rapid speech into place. While this memory is protective and helpful often, sometimes with family, it is memory response instead of a contextual one. Journal Prompts: ...immediately prompts anxiety for me. ...triggers hyper-vigilance.

Family Anxiety, 4

Anxiety shapes the way you experience family. Molded from repetition, you slip into a glove of responsiveness that is comfortable because it is known. Think a stiff leather glove, with little flexibility, demanding that you experience family as you always have. Journal Prompts: I am hypersensitive to... My family will always be... My filter says...

Self-Evaluation, 3

Measure time spent hiding. Different from having reasonable privacy, hiding is fueled by the fear of isolation, embarrassment, and shame. Journal Prompts: How much energy do you put towards hiding? I hide... I feel embarrassed by...

Self-Evaluation, 2

Write about the quality of your current mental health compared with a different period of your life. Use these prompts for both time periods: What types of behaviors are observable to a bystander? What experiences are not visible, but are instead private?

Self-Evaluation, 1

Whatever the tone and content of your self-evaluation ticker, it’s unlikely objective and without bias. Instead, self-evaluation tends to velcro to old voices and external evaluators. While we may never reach complete objectivity, this series aims to increase it. Journal Prompt: My self-evaluation tends to velcro to...

Boundaries, With Yourself, 9

Stop gaslighting yourself, it's too much. Journal Prompt: ...is too much.

Boundaries, With Yourself, 8

Lost contact with yourself, means less sensitivity to self-abusive practices. Self-abusive practices... Harm. Restrict. Punish. Binge. Control. Demean. Journal Prompt: When I lose contact with myself, I...