Journal Prompts for When You Can’t Settle the F Down
Ever sit down in your own house and instantly want to get up again? That restless “should I move, should I clean, should I leave?” loop? Yeah. That’s survival brain doing laps.
TL;DR:
These journaling prompts help when you feel too restless to relax. They get the noise out of your head and onto paper so you can breathe for five minutes.
Prompts:
Right now, what’s my body trying to do (move, scan, fidget)?
What’s the worst thing I think will happen if I stop moving?
If I could put this restlessness into words or images, what would it look like?
What’s one corner of my space that already feels like mine?
What do I need to remind myself of to stay here, just for today?
I used to think I just had “too much energy.” And, tbh maybe it’s a smidge of ADHD. But it’s also being so used to chaos that stillness feels weird. wrong. kind of scary. That was hypervigilance, plain and simple. Anticipation of something coming. Because that is what we have known in the past. But that is not our reality right now.
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