Thought Journal Prompts From Your Overbearing Mother

Use this journal to organize your trash life

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1. Describe your life in a nutshell.

Example: Your sister Katie was a National Merit Semifinalist who went to Brown’s Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME) and is now a gynecology resident. You’re Lucy, a marketing assistant at a failing indie publishing house. Katie tells me her hospital might have an opening at the coffee shop in the lobby, and maybe you could just bury your pride and ask her to put in a good word. You do have a resume, right?

2. Create an acrostic with each letter of your first name.

Example:

Lamentable (not you, Luce. Just the path you’re on.)

Unappreciative

Celexa-dependent (if you got your life together, maybe you wouldn’t need to take SSRIs. PS Katie’s med school friend Isla is a psychiatry resident, did you know?)

Youngish (Though I already had a husband, a kid, and another one on the way at your age, kiddo!)

3. Write down five strengths and five weaknesses about yourself.