A Mirror

Read each question slowly. Sit with it before writing. These are not questions to answer quickly.

Question 1

Name the circumstance in which you feel most clearly and completely yourself. What does that tell you about where your sense of identity lives?

Question 2

How do you feel when things are genuinely calm? Describe what the calm feels like, not what you think it should feel like.

Question 3

What urgency have you created in the past three months that did not actually require urgency?

Question 4

Describe the version of yourself that exists outside the fire. Even if you don't know them well yet, what do you know?

Question 5

What would you need to believe about yourself for ordinary life to feel like enough? ---

Weekly Practice

Read one of these each morning this week. Before the phone.

Day 1 I noticed where emergency has become my identity.
Day 2 I named the words that hook me into urgency.
Day 3 I let a moment not be an emergency.
Day 4 I stopped needing a crisis to feel necessary.
Day 5 I asked who I am without the alarm.
Day 6 I let calm be my baseline, not the exception.
Day 7 I am willing to be myself without the emergency.

My Notes

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