A Week of Journal Prompts
A Week of Grace Welcome to another week of journal prompts! If you haven’t read my post about how I choose prompts for the week and why I started this journal, you can check it out here. Before journaling each week, I like to determine a main focus or area of growth. Having a broad…
Learning to Forgive Yourself
Forgiveness is an intricate and valuable skill that is often learned through difficult experiences. And while forgiving others is a common theme in life, there isn’t a lot of talk about self forgiveness. When doing some research on learning how to forgive myself, I immediately recognized a common theme. Everything I read focused solely on…
Top Picks for Guided Journals
The only list of Professionally Recommended Journals you’ll ever need. Journaling is becoming more and more popular as people discover the amazing benefits it can have on mental health. However, thousands of guided journals claim to be the best. It can feel impossible to know which one will be the best fit. Take the stress…
How to Relax
Relaxation is something that we don’t talk about, or do enough of. With benefits ranging from improving concentration to reducing muscle aches, relaxation is a vital skill. However, trying the many different techniques, only to find that none of them were working for me, was a very frustrating experience. It made me wonder, who else…
How Are We Talking to Ourselves?
Think vs. Feel, I Statements, & Minimizing Language The conversations that we have with ourselves has been a frequently visited topic in my life this past month. I was even talking about it yesterday on the phone and I realized that we need to be talking about it more. Concepts like think vs feel, minimizing…
Is Self-Care Selfish?
Have you ever felt guilty for taking time for yourself? Even something small—like enjoying a quiet cup of coffee or stepping away for a few minutes to breathe—can feel indulgent in a world that rewards constant productivity. It’s a common experience, and it’s one that comes up often in therapy. Often times, hustle, multitasking, and…
A Week of Journal Prompts: Awareness
A Week of Awareness Welcome to another week of journal prompts! If you haven’t read my post about how I choose prompts for the week and why I started this journal, you can check it out here. To start, I want to let you know what my focus for journaling will be this week. Aside…
A Week of Journal Prompts: Self-Exploration
A Week of Self-Exploration Welcome to another week of journal prompts! If you haven’t read my post about how I choose prompts for the week and why I started this journal, you can check it out here. As I follow the journal prompts for this week I want to focus on awareness. More specifically, my…
A Week of Journal Prompts: Self Love & Self Care
A couple months ago I started my first ever journal. It actually started as an assignment for school, and eventually turned into this blog! Right away, it was difficult for me to get in the habit of journaling every day. I was struggling to get in the right mindset for journaling, and even when I…
Guided Meditation
I want to share with you guys a few meditation podcasts and playlists that I really enjoy. 1. Natural Meditation Podcast Stephan Wormland is a clinical psychologist trained in Gestalt Therapy and teaches Buddhist meditation in Europe. I love his podcast because the voices are always very soothing and the topics are unique. 2. Ten…