
5-Day Journaling Exercise: Are you suffering, and not doing something about it?
Theme: Are you suffering and not spending time to help yourself?
Day 1 – What Is Suffering?
If you look in the mirror, where does distress or heaviness show up in your body, mind, or relationships?
What are your most common patterns of suffering?
What made you feel that way?
Write about how your inner critic describes your “distress.”

5-Day Journaling Exercise: The Marathon I Didn’t See Coming
Theme: From Bystander to driver, personal growth, intention, invisible turning points, transformation through others, and long-term emotional and physical wellness.
Day 1 – The Moment Before the Moment
Think about a moment in your life that seemed ordinary at the time, but changed everything in hindsight.
What was happening?
Who was involved?
What shifted?
How does it live in you now?

5-Day Journaling Exercise: Angst or Freedom, Your Choice
Theme: Internal dialogue, truth-telling, emotional patterns, and choosing personal freedom over emotional stagnation.
Day 1: Conversations in Your Head
Think of a recent time you had an argument or unresolved issue playing out in your mind.
What was the situation?
What did you want to say?
How did keeping it in impact your mood, body, or relationships?

5-Day Journaling Exercise: Your Basement Box
Theme: Unpack old emotional habits, become more self-aware, and cultivate inner peace.
Day 1 – What’s in Your Box?
What patterns or emotional reactions keep showing up in your life, despite your best efforts to "throw them out"?
Think of one recurring pattern.
Where did it start?
What’s it protecting you from?

5-Day Journaling Exercise: Choose Your Adventure, Because You Can’t Choose Others
Theme: Explore choice, control, relationships, personal narratives, and how we rewrite or reframe moments that define us.
Day 1: The Illusion of Control
Write about a time when you thought you had control over someone else’s decision, and you didn’t.
What did you learn?
How did you respond in the moment?
What would you do differently today?

5-Day Journaling Exercise: So It’s the Laughter We Remember
Theme: “The Way We Feel” – Building a Life of Meaning, One Moment at a Time
Day 1 – Rewriting the Details
Choose a story you often tell about your life.
What are the core “facts” of the story?
What are the emotional truths beneath it?
How does that moment shape your sense of self?

5-Day Journal Exercise: I Have an Unclassified Mental Disorder
Theme: Awareness, Acceptance, and the Power of Pause
Day 1: What’s Bubbling Beneath the Surface?
Think of a recent interaction where you felt the need to be heard immediately.
What triggered that urgency?
Was it about the moment—or something deeper?
What would you have said if you had taken a breath?

5-Day Journal Exercise: Marvelous and Gratifying Failure (2 options)
Theme: Reflect, self-awareness, and encouragement while exploring your goals, identity, failure, and growth.
Day 1: Defining Failure
What does failure mean to you?
When have you felt like you failed—even after giving your best? How did it shape how you view yourself now?

5-Day Journaling Exercise: Are You Trying to Control the Wind?
Theme: How are you trying to control the wind? What are you trying to control, accept, change, ‘bang your head against the wall,’?
Day 1 – Control vs. Acceptance
What areas of your life do you feel compelled to control, but can’t or it’s very challenging?
How does trying to control these areas make you feel?
What would it mean to “study the wind” instead of trying to control it?

5-Day Journaling Exercise: The Boy in the Raft
Theme: Explore your childhood innocence, the impact of life-changing events, trauma, self-awareness, and healing.
Day 1 – Innocence & Joy
Recall a time in your childhood when you felt completely carefree and joyful.
What sights, sounds, or feelings come to mind?
What did “innocent, childlike fun” look like for you?

5-Day Journaling Exercise: Finding Light in the Darkness
Theme: Explore forgiveness, fear, inherited stories, the complexity of ancestry, and compassion for self and others—especially when beliefs are challenged.
Day 1 – Facing the Unimaginable
Has life ever presented you with something that deeply challenged your identity or beliefs?
How did you respond?
How do you hold space for both the discomfort and the potential for growth?

5-Day Journaling Exercise: Are You Making Pies for Everyone?
Theme: Focus on people-pleasing, emotional boundaries, identity, and self-compassion. Gently shift your focus from over-catering to others toward honoring the self.
Day 1 – Your Emotional Pie Chart
How much of your daily energy goes toward making sure others are okay (emotionally, mentally, physically)?
What would your “emotional pie chart” look like right now?
What slice is missing or too small?

5-Day Journaling Exercise: What if C-A-T Really Spelled D-O-G?
Theme: “What if C-A-T Really Spelled Dog?” — a beautiful reflection and reframe on perspective, perception, time, and narrative.
Day 1 – Your Inner Narrator
What is a story you've been telling yourself lately—about who you are or what you're capable of?
Is it helpful or limiting?
How would your life change if you rewrote this narrative today?

5-Day Journaling Exercise: Can I have an Extra Helping of Poison, Please?
Theme: What poison are you swallowing? Identify, explore, and heal toxic internal narratives and emotional patterns.
Day 1: Naming Your Poison Pills
What negative beliefs do you repeat to yourself that you know are untrue or harmful?
Where did they come from?
Which one is the loudest in your head right now?

5-Day Journaling Exercise: Manage the Heartbreak
Theme: “From broken to beautiful, resilience, heartbreak, beauty in imperfection, and reconnection to self and earth.
Day 1: What Is Broken
What part of your life or heart feels broken right now—or has felt that way recently?
Name it without fixing it.
What does it feel like to hold space for that without judgment?
What is a simple act that would allow you to patch what needs fixing?

5-Day Journaling Exercise: Just Getting Started
Purpose: Just start where you are, and from within.
Day 1: What’s Holding You Back?
What’s one thing you’ve been avoiding starting—big or small?
What stories, fears, or expectations are attached to it?
What would it feel like to just begin imperfectly?

5-Day Journaling Exercise: Shed Life’s Emotional Weight
Theme: “Shed Life’s Emotional Weight”
Purpose: An exploration to unpack emotional heaviness and re-center yourself.
DAY 1: Mirror Check-In
When you look in the mirror, do you see who you really are—or what you think others see?
What emotions come up when you’re honest with yourself?

5-Day Journaling Exercise: Marathon I didn’t See Coming (2 Options)
It all begins with an idea.

5-Day Journaling Exercise: Tears, No Fears, Finding Happiness in Kindness
Day 1: Emotional Truths
What was the last thing that made you cry—tears of joy, sadness, or surprise?
What did the tears reveal about your emotional truth in that moment?
What does that moment say about your values or longings?