The Journey of Meeting Needs
Grow Yourself Up Journal Prompts.....
Here are the journal prompts for the last couple of episodes for Grow Yourself Up. You can listen to the podcast here on Substack or on any podcast platform. And you can also watch on YouTube. You will get to see all my hand gestures, outfits and some of the mess around my desk……
If you want the earlier journal prompts sent to you please comment here or direct message me so that I can email them to you.
As always, please remember this is not an exercise in perfection or trying to respond to all these prompts.
Read them through first and see what resonates for you and then pick a few to write on. Set your timer for 10 mins and write.
And as Molly Caro May says ‘trust your brilliance’!!!!
GROW YOURSELF UP Episode 135: Overworking, Redefining Success and Growing Up with Tamu Thomas
How does overworking show up in your life? Do you overcommit at work or at home or go beyond your physical limits?
Do you know how your body shows you you are going beyond your physical limits?
Do you get regularly sick? Is this the only thing that slows you down? How can you introduce periods of a bit more slowness and rest?
Do you know what success looks like for you? What does it feel like? Have you taken time to notice what a good day feels like for you? Can you set aside 10 minutes to dream about what this might look like?
Do you feel lonely in your life? Is there existing community you can get to know better? Can you cultivate some joy alongside other people and see where that leads? Can you take a small step in this direction this week?
GROW YOURSELF UP Episode 136: Neediness, Choice and Growing Up in Motherhood with Mara Glatzel
Do you consider yourself needy? What connotations does that word have for you? Does it bring up anything negative? We are all needy - all humans have needs. Has that word been used to shame you? Have you been told you are ‘too needy’?
How were your needs held in your family of origin? Has that impacted how you label your needs now?
If you have children how do you relate to their needs? I imagine you are kind and attentive. Can you apply some of that kindness and attention to yourself?
What is your relationship like to your ambition? Is that about you? Is it connected to what you learnt in your family? Is it connected to what society tells you is important? Do you care about the things you are ambitious about?
What is your relationship to choice? Do you allow yourself to make choices that centre your needs? Do you allow yourself to make different choices on different days? Can you give yourself choices to bring in more safety for your nervous system? How could you make one small shift towards that this week?
GROW YOURSELF UP Episode 137: Needs, Our Humanity and Shame
After listening to this episode did you resonate with needing permission or approval from someone else around your needs? Does this happen in specific relationships or do you always feel you need someone to validate that your needs are important?
Do you know where this originates? Are you aware of how your needs were tended to as a baby or child? Were you considered irritating, annoying or an inconvenience as a child? Were your needs ignored or minimised?
Do have a somatic response to reading the questions above? Where is that in your body? How can you tend to that response gently? Can you share about that with someone?
Do you ignore or minimise your needs now? How do you know when you have done that? Can you start to notice that in the moment?
What actions can you take today and in the next week to assist you in paying better attention to your needs? What support may you need around that? Can you ask your partner/friends/siblings/parents/nanny/children for help with any of these things?
Sending love to you all. Nurture yourself gently in these times.
Meeting your own needs helps you remain heart centered, particularly in times when it might feel safer to close your heart.
With Love Cath xxx