A year of impressions
Fifty hours of sessions and nothing written between them, so whether the same thing keeps coming back is down to how it feels this month.
A year on the page
Two short entries a week, dated and searchable by the words you actually use. Read a year of them back and the repeats are plain.
The blank page
The work between sessions is mostly noticing, and noticing evaporates by Thursday. People arrive having lost the week and rebuild it on the spot. Two short entries fix that, and neither of them has to be shown to anyone.
What it looks like
How to start a journal for therapy
Write straight after the session
What came up on the way home, and what you did not say.
Write again the day before the next one
What was loud this week, and what you want to bring.
Keep it yours
Bring the page or do not. Nothing here is written for anyone else to read.
What this journal opens with
- What do you want to bring, when you go?
- What has been loud this week?
A quiet start, never a form. Write past the prompt, ignore it, or make the page your own. The journal holds the shape; the words are yours.
Journal Prompts for Therapy
The useful work between sessions is mostly noticing, and noticing evaporates by Thursday. These prompts are for catching what you would otherwise arrive without, and for the things that only occur to you on the way home.
- What came up after you left last time?
- What did you not say, and what stopped you?
- What landed today that you were not expecting?
- What did you disagree with, quietly?
- What word did they use that you keep turning over?
Private like a notebook
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