THE WRITING SPA: Tailored, transformative writing prompts

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An Emotion Peel is a guided expressive writing session that centers around the question

How do you assign emotions to your experiences? 

This self-care spa prompts you to explore the layers of feelings and meanings you ascribe to your experiences. Do they reflect conflicts and paradoxes, or have you reduced the sparkling complexity of your character by a one-dimensional 'resolution'? 

An Emotion Peel invites you to consider the following questions: 

• What would happen if you renamed the emotions you feel in your body (and changed the emotion-words that dominate your self-story)?
• What can the tangents in your self-story reveal? 
• How do you understand, define, and integrate change?
  
  

Often, a word that labels a feeling in our body supports a narrative arc in our self-story.  What is your narrative arc, and what are the words /  who are the people  that create it? 

Set aside some time for an emotion peel if you want to externalize an incident or aspect of your self-story, and consider it from a 3rd person perspective.

If you are still wondering whether an Emotion Peel might facilitate the right mental health self-care experience, ask yourself one key question: 

How do I characterize and label change?

LEARN MORE about change with an Emotion Peel 

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An Identity Scrub is a guided expressive writing session that centers around the question

What is the plot of your self-story, and how do you, 

the main character, inhabit it? 

This self-care spa prompts you to identify the extent of --and challenge the aspect of your identity rooted in--self-criticism. 

What is the plot of your self-story? 

As the main character, what is your relationship to that plot?

Who is  your audience? (especially you social media audience)  

 The Identity Spa invites you to consider the following questions:

• What words reflect the patterns and themes that position you in your story?  
• Are you the main character in your story or are you a character in someone else's (social media) story?  
• What are your character's strengths in relationship?

Set aside some time for an Identity Scrub if you want to explore the ways you author yourself and define your character.

Expressive Writing helps you review and revise you script from a 3rd person perspective. It allows you insight into  the implicit goals that motivate the main character (you), and to consider their relevance to your life. How might you re-plot your story?

If you are still wondering whether an Identity Scrub might facilitate the right mental health self-care experience, ask yourself one key question: 

        What dreams are still meaningful in my life, 

and do I need to re-plot my self-story in order to revitalize them? 

LEARN MORE about your self-story with an Identity Scrub