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?

Day 2 – The Cost of Pleasing
Write about a time you tried to make everyone happy.
How did it feel during the process?
How did it feel afterward?
 Was it worth it? Why?

Day 3 – The Kitchen Metaphor
If your emotional life were a kitchen, what does it look like today?
Is it clean, chaotic, overbooked, or closed for renovation?
What needs to change to make it nourishing and inviting for you?

Day 4 – One Amazing Pie
If you could make one amazing "emotional pie" just for yourself, what would it include?
What ingredients (values, boundaries, practices) would make it feel authentic, joyful, and whole?

Day 5 – Give Yourself Grace
In what ways are you trying to be everything to everyone?
What grace can you give yourself this week?
Write a short note of permission to focus on yourself without guilt.