The goal is not to dodge anger, sadness, or fear. Rather, it is to know what you are experiencing and how to take care of yourself. Journal Prompt: I have trouble taking care of myself when I feel...
Tag: Self-help Tips
Boundaries and Habits
If not your responsibility to always pick up what other people drop. Journal Prompt: I tend to pick up...
Boundaries and Resistance
If you are resistant to setting personal boundaries, you will live within someone else's. Journal Prompt: I defer to the boundaries of...
When You are Not Quite Ready to Set a Boundary
Even if you are not ready to set a boundary, you need information about where your limit is. If there is no identified limit, you risk continuing to move the goalpost with circumstances. Journal Prompt: The line keeps moving for...
A Journal Prompt for Boundaries and Actions
Your actions communicate boundaries, not your words. Journal Prompt: My actions say...
A Journal Prompt for Boundaries and Duty
It is not your duty, occupation, or assignment, to change the behavior of another adult. Journal Prompt: I have urges to try and change...
A Journal Prompt for Taking Care of Yourself
It is my responsibility to know when I need to take better care of myself. Journal Prompt: I tend to neglect…
Rethinking
Too close to see her own hypocrisy, she didn’t realize she was teaching the very action she was condemning.
Regret: Journal Prompt 9
Pressure. Regret feels like pressure to control something you no longer have control over. Leave the pressure. In your jaw, at the base of your neck, let the pressure go. Journal Prompt: The pressure of regret is…
Regret: Journal Prompt 8
Moments. The emotional experience of regret is like a storm. A storm blows through, aggressive, loud, windshield-wiper necessary. But clouds pass, the rain eventually stops, and the threat passes. You can choose to be an observer. Instead of storm chasing, you can accept the emotional experience of regret. You can build your tolerance muscle and wait out the passing of the storm, knowing that the experience of regret is a moment in time–apart of you–but not all of you. Journal Prompt: The emotional experience of regret is like...