Slow Medicine Immersion

Week 1 Journaling Prompts

A few notes on using these prompts:

These prompts are invitations rather than requirements.

You can choose one or two prompts, or any of them that jump out

Some prompts may feel too raw or too confronting at this early stage of the program, and that is perfectly OK. That is valuable information in itself and worth noting without forcing.

If you choose to write, try to write uninterrupted without editing or censoring for 3-5 minutes, the journalling process in somatic work is most useful when it bypasses the analytical mind and allows something more immediate and honest to surface. Even five minutes of unedited writing in response to a single prompt can be remarkably revealing.

PART 1 — LANDING

Exploring your current relationship with presence and arriving

  • When you paused and did the landing practice, what did you notice? Was it easy, difficult, unfamiliar, or somewhere in between? What surprised you?

  • Where in your body did you feel most present? Where felt distant, numb, or hard to reach?

  • Think about your daily life — are there moments when you naturally land in your body? What is happening in those moments? Movement, nature, music, a particular activity?

  • Are there situations or relationships where you notice yourself leaving your body — going somewhere else, becoming less present? What triggers that departure?

  • What does chronic activation feel like in your body specifically? Where do you carry stress, tension, or anxiety? Has this changed over time?

  • Have you ever experienced a moment of genuine, complete presence — in nature, in stillness, in movement, in connection? What did it feel like? What was different about that moment?

  • What has your nervous system been trying to protect you from by staying activated and vigilant? Can you meet that protection with some compassion rather than frustration?

  • What would it mean for you personally to feel genuinely at home in your body? What would be different? What would you be able to do, feel, or access that feels currently out of reach?

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PART 2 — YOUR BODY AS HOME

Exploring your relationship with your body

  • How would you describe your current relationship with your body — in a few honest, unedited words? Not how you think it should be, but how it actually is right now.

  • Has your relationship with your body changed over time? What experiences — positive or difficult — have shaped it most significantly?

  • Are there parts of your body you feel more connected to than others? Are there parts you tend to ignore, avoid, or feel disconnected from?

  • Does your body feel like a safe place to be? If not — when did it stop feeling safe, and what contributed to that?

  • Think of a time when you felt genuinely good in your body — comfortable, at ease, alive. What were the conditions that allowed that? What can you learn from that memory?

  • What does your body do to get your attention when it needs something? Do you tend to hear it, or override it? What happens when you override it?

  • If your body could speak to you right now — not about symptoms or problems, but about what it needs, what it is carrying, what it wants you to know — what do you imagine it might say?

  • What is one small thing you could do this week that would feel genuinely nourishing to your body — not because it is good for you in a disciplinary sense, but because your body would actually welcome it?

  • What would change in your life if you began to treat your body as an intelligent ally rather than something to be managed, improved, or pushed through?