Exercise One

Metaphorical Mending

Mending my relationship with myself so that I can improve the relationships with my friends and the people around me

Environment/Structures:

Social Relationships and the Social Hierarchy

Being Accepted/Welcomed

Feeling Worthy

Rupture:

My sense of comfort and happiness with myself

New Reconnections:

Mending my self acceptance, insecurities, self love and happiness

Attempting to look at myself through an objective view point by distancing myself from the I and embracing a different perspective.

Is even this possible when considering the fact that every opinion/perspective is most likely emotionally charged?

Releasing the past and attempting to embrace the present through mending my own views.

Journals have always been a way for me to cope with my thoughts. Sometimes I would write them directly as they are, I would also just find the most random things I am curious about and then put that in my journal, and then there's times when I start making collages (I really love that). These have allowed me to find peace in many occasions. But then there's times when I feel like writing something down and then I decided not to do it because I felt ashamed or embarrassed in a way. As if I wasn't ready to truly face it for myself. Perhaps then maybe my mending journey could begin by taking a step to change this very intimate relationship with my acceptance of my own thoughts.