Patience with Yourself

My toddler screamed out of porportion to an offense today. Her cart was stuck between the door and the toy box. With colorful sound effects, she slammed the cart repeatedly as if her grit would overtake the physics. She was a mirror to abandoned patience within myself. Journal Prompt: What would it be like to be patient with yourself?

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...

Feeling Your Way Through Grief, 5

Fragile. Grief is feeling fragile in places you hope to keep sealed and intact.  Like trying to hold on to eggs while riding a roller coaster. Journal Prompt: I feel fragile…

Feeling Your Way Through Grief, 4

Guilt. Grief is a magnet for guilt. You feel guilt that you did too little. Guilt that you did too much. Guilt that you survived. Guilt about your feelings, missed opportunities, and mistakes. When these feelings morph to a cemented state of being it chains you to the past and prevents forward movement. Journal Prompt: I feel guilt about…