🔼: [[🕯️ Journaling]] # Emotional Journaling Take 5-10 minutes per day to Journal about particular emotional events in your life, especially from childhood, and how you felt — the [[⭐️ Emotions]] that you weren’t allowed to feel (positive or negative) or were too frightening to feel. We might write about how it felt to not feel these emotions. Write whatever comes without thinking or editing, maybe looking over your [[🛠 Memory Bucket]], and only going where it feels safe to. > [!important] In distress? See: [[⭐️ Safety Tools and Resources]] > Connect to a [[🕯️ Resourcing|🕯️ Resource]] before trying this, and having other tools from the [[🛠 Pendulation Toolkit]] ready if you're pulled out of your [[💡 Window of Tolerance|Window of Tolerance]]. If something arises and it does feel safe to feel it, just allow yourself to be with the feeling. You might write about times when you felt ... - Angry or rageful (often the best place to start) - Sad or depressed - Abandoned - Abused - Annihilated - Betrayed - Deficient - Destroyed - Coerced - Criticized - Embarrassed - Humiliated - Guilty - Isolated - Oppressed - Persecuted - Rejected - Shamed - Unloved - Unsafe - Unsupported - Worthless Existential feelings ... feeling of being ... - Alive - Cut off - Dead - Detached - Disconnected - Dislodged - Distant - Empty - Estranged - Indifferent - Isolated - Lonely - Lost - Otherworldly - Out of it - Out of touch - Overwhelmed - Separated - Strange - Suffocated - Unreal [^1]: