Journaling Prompts for Accepting a Changing Body
Watching your body change due to aging, illness, or major life events can induce a quiet but profound grief. Society demands that you fight this change, selling you endless products to freeze time and reverse reality. When your reflection no longer matches the image you hold in your mind, you can feel acutely betrayed by your biology. Journaling offers a path to neutrality. By writing down your frustrations, you strip the moral judgment away from physical changes. It allows you to process the loss of your 'before' body while forcing you to respect the reality of your current vessel.
Journaling Prompts
Write down the specific physical change you are fighting the hardest against. What amount of your daily mental energy is consumed by trying to hide or fix it?
List the ways this physical change is a neutral fact of biology and time, rather than a moral failing or lack of discipline on your part.
Identify the societal standard that says this change makes you less valuable. Who profits financially from making you feel insecure about this specific feature?
Focus intensely on utility. What three essential tasks did this changing body execute perfectly today, demanding absolutely nothing in return?
If you stopped fighting this physical reality entirely, what new activities, thoughts, or experiences would you suddenly have room for in your life?