Therapeutic Writing Prompts

• Tell us about a time someone hurt your feelings.
• When multiple people I love/d invalidated my feelings and told me how to feel but I allowed them to express there's to me without judgment.
• What’s one present you’ve always wanted?
• A giant teddy bear and 100 balloons with memories tied to them.
• Who were your favorite relatives?
• Monica, Aysha and my little cousins.
• What are your best/worst memories of school?
• Art, NJROTC & psychology classes the people in those classes were genuine and bold, they broke me out of my shell. Being bullied, lied on, and being sexually harassed everyday.
• “How has art saved you?”
• Art saved me by giving me a voice/outlet to release the thing heavily on my mind and on other days, allowing me time to get away from thinking.
• “Did you ever get into trouble?”
• A lot, for talking to much, lying (horribly because it's just not my thing) and pretty much being a pushover/crybaby
• What was the saddest moment of your life?
• Heart break(s).
• “How would you describe yourself as a child?”
• Naïve, full of imagination & breaking the glass type of dreams.
• What is your daily routine?
• ...stress, work, overthink, eat, feed my pets, stress, sleep repeat.
• “What was the best night of your life so far?” Going to sleep in the arms of Her.
• Are you proud of who you are?
• No... sometimes until I'm not.
• How would you like to be remembered?
• Someone who loved deeply no matter how afraid they were or how much she's been hurt (lover), someone who was always there for people (friend/family), traveler, successful woman in the career of her dreams, someone who lived their lives to the fullest with no regrets.
• Honor a family member. Brenda Marie Gaines, I love you my dragonfly you'll always be with me. Thank you.
• What are you waiting for?
• Idk.. happiness, motivation, self forgiveness and long lasting love.
• Where did you grow up?
• North Carolina... projects, country, "suburbs" not the big houses but I was a couple neighborhoods away.
• Who was your first kiss? Tony  How was it? Lol, cute and very young.
• Tell a random childhood memory. I used to dance around the house to old school music, drinking my root beer pretending it was real beer or a mic sometimes.
• Create a postcard. Who’s it going to? My grandma
• What advice do you have for other couples?
• Listen to one another's wants and needs, compromise, understand and love without holding back; let go when it's time without hard feelings.
• How was/is your relationship with your parents?
• Filled with tough love, and abandonment issues; Rough but now it's better with my mom and my dad is back around. Feels like he's my personality twin but finding out things is hard Bc it was stuff I wanted to know during those 8 years he was away.
• When did you first fall in love?
• 8.21.09
• What makes you happy?
• Being happy, hugs, kids, dogs, finding great new music/artists, traveling (when I'm not the driver), being away from society and all my problems in nature.
• What was the worst thing you ever did? Almost kill myself, cut myself, denied who I was because ppl I cared about didn't accept it, slept with someone I shouldn't , hell allowing multiple ppl to sleep with me to avoid being raped again (at least that's what I thought I was doing).
• Is there something about someone that you’ve always wanted to know but have never asked?
• A lot of somethings
• What was your childhood like?
• Maturing beyond my time, up and downs but still having a great imagination.
• What’s the highlight of your week?
• Being off.
• Write a love letter.
• Rather not.
• What’s something you wish you knew about your parents?
• Their real relationship with each other instead of making me feel like an accident.
• What’s your word or focus for the year?
• Happiness, going back to school, money management, mental health.
• What does your future hold? Idek.
• What are you (or would you be) giving your children that you wish you’d had? Support, Protection, Listener, a parent who promotes creativeness and individuality, I'll teach them lessons about being who they are regardless of what anyone has to say from birth until forever.
• When in life have you felt most alone? Now.
• What is a family keepsake you have or hope to have?
• Anything of my grandmother's/ I have her jewelry box.
• What are the most important lessons you’ve learned in life?
• Nobody is going to love you more than yourself, so you need to love yourself.
• Tell us about a favorite or special piece of clothing. My hats, if that's consider clothing, I love hats they complete any outfit. Oh and all of my Olive clothing, it's my fave color .
• What’s something you struggle with? Suicidal thoughts, depression, overthinking, attachment and opening up to people who say they care about me.
• Describe or show yourself at this point in your life.
• A wreck, I'm happy one minute and crying the next but I'm still here , I'm still alive. But I long for love (of self), support and forgiveness (of self).