Boundaries, With Yourself, 7

Over-stimulated children don’t do well, neither do you. A boundary for yourself is a boundary that respects your sensory experience. Journal Prompt: A boundary voting for less stimulation would...

Boundaries, With Yourself, 6

Boundaries with yourself is knowing that there is more to do and more to be, yet declaring that it is good enough.

A Journal Prompt for Connection

You leave connection on the table when you keep your vulnerability buckled up. Journal Prompt: I wish it felt safer to share...

Journal Prompts for the Past

Is the past important to process? Or is it a torture chamber of your rumination, harrassing you with shame and disappointment? Processing the past finds advantage when it is blocking your current living. It feels particularly unhelpful when it is a mixed tape on repeat, playing only to punish. Journal Prompt: I still need to process... I need to leave behind...

A Journal Prompt for Change

Change happens, all at once, slowly, with relapse, with a lot of help, and with none at all. Journal Prompt: To find change I need...

A Journal Prompt for Recovery

In recovery, you allot effort to live differently than you once did. You resign thinking, living, and behavior that you’ve paid too dearly to maintain. Journal Prompt: I wish I could allot time to...

A Journal Prompt for the Grief in Setting Boundaries

Setting a boundary triggers grief. Choosing to not be mistreated can mean loss of connection. Setting a boundary around a controlling parent, might mean less contact. Shedding the part of you that was okay for awhile with how it was, means you lose the comfortable and predictable feeling. Journal Prompt: If I set a boundary, I will grieve...

A Journal Prompt for Hearing

Coincidently, when you are calm, you are biologically setup to hear and respond better. Journal Prompt: I could use more calm when...

A Journal Prompt for the Fixer

If i wasn't fixing, I would be...

A Journal Prompt for Relationships

Problems fog in distorted truth. If more relationships chose honesty, conflicts would be shorter. Within yourself, with others, peace can’t settle in dishonesty. Journal Prompt: I could be more honest with...