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If you’re going through a painful breakup or divorce, journaling is a great way to release the pain on paper. When it’s down on the page, you can examine your emotions with more rationality. A journal is a safe place to express your innermost thoughts and feelings without the risk of judgment from others. As you follow these writing prompts, you’ll find that dormant part of your soul rising to guide you and give you the answers you didn’t think you had. You’ll begin to understand why your relationship didn’t work out, uncover some of the insecurities and blockages to your happiness, as well as learn how to find the hidden gifts and lessons in your current state of pain and recovery.
Coping with a breakup or divorce is a challenging time and everyone heals at their own pace. This book gives you 30 journal prompts to get to the heart of the matter and help you speed up the recovery process. You can do the writing prompts consecutively, or you can pace them by taking breaks between the days if you find the work to be emotionally heavy.
A relationship consists of two people, which is why this book is divided into two sections: 15 prompts about your ex, and 15 that focuses on you.
By doing this work, you’ll be taking the steps to:
- Let go of your ex
- Uncover what made you incompatible
- Why you were attracted to him
- Analyze your beliefs about love
- How to be more positive in love and in life
- Find out what makes you happy in relationships
- How to take care of yourself and fulfill your own happiness
- How to create a healthy relationship the next time around
in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
? Friedrich Nietzsche
ex in you head? Ones where you get to say what you didn’t get to say when your
relationship ended?
Obsessing over what should have been is unhealthy
and sucks the positive energy out of you. It’s exhausting to be fighting with
him, even mentally, but the urge to communicate with him is so strong that you
want to pick up the phone (again) and speak your mind.
Do not contact him. He hurt you. Don’t give him
the chance to hurt you again.
Write down your feelings in your journal
instead. What do you blame him for? What do you want to say to him? Are you
angry with him? Do you miss him?
Use as many pages as you want. Pretend you’re
writing a letter directly to him. But do not send it. Do not contact him and
read it out loud to him. Doing so will greatly risk you being trapped in the
same cycle of negativity.
This should be a safe experience to explore your
pain in order to put it behind you, not to stir up more arguments with someone
who caused the pain in the first place. If you’re energized by this outpouring
of emotion and feel a strong urge to share it, call a trusted friend instead.
