Welcome to the next installment in the Journal Your Way to Clarity series. This is the first of a two-part look at relationships, a topic that tends to dominate our thoughts and conversations. 

Whether it's the heartache, frustration, or anger that we feel toward a partner or someone else in our lives, these emotions usually reveal the need for work that looks inward, not outward. 

The desire to be seen and heard—to connect with others on a meaningful level—is universal. But achieving that type of connection hinges on our ability to define what "being there" truly means. 

So, when journaling about relationships, I encourage you to start with the following prompts: 

What do I really feel?

What do I really want?

How can I satisfy that for myself with some small action?

For this series of exercises, you don’t have to use The Treasured Journal—a plain pad of paper will do. But if you do use the journal, you can take advantage of questions, prompts, and sentence stems to move past the blank page and gain the type of clarity that comes from meaningful self-reflection.

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Thank you for listening. This episode originally aired as #116 on January 30, 2023.

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BOOKS I’M READING (visit your local bookseller or library):

Spare by Prince Harry - https://www.amazon.com/Spare-Prince-Harry-Duke-Sussex/dp/0593593804

The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté, MD with Daniel Maté - https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Normal-Illness-Healing-Culture/dp/0593083881

Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy - https://www.goodinside.com/book/

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron - https://juliacameronlive.com/books-by-julia/

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