WHEN IT HURTS TO ADMIT IT Prompts
⟡ “I don’t know when I stopped feeling like myself, but I know it wasn’t all at once.”
⟡ “I keep waiting to miss this life more than I hate it.”
⟡ “I don’t even know if I’m sad or just tired of pretending I’m not.”
⟡ “You ever wake up and realize you’re living a life you didn’t mean to choose?”
⟡ “I don’t hate you. I just don’t recognize who I am around you anymore.”
⟡ “I thought if I ignored it long enough, it would go away. It didn’t.”
⟡ “I’m not asking you to fix it. I just need you to stop telling me it’s fine.”
⟡ “I keep telling myself this is enough, but it never sounds convincing.”
⟡ “I don’t know what I want, I just know this isn’t it.”
⟡ “I’m scared that if I stop, everything I’ve been holding together will fall apart.”
⟡ “I don’t want to leave. I just don’t want to stay like this.”
⟡ “I don’t feel brave. I feel cornered.”
⟡ “Every time I say I’m okay, something in me flinches.”
⟡ “I don’t know how to explain this without sounding ungrateful.”
⟡ “I keep thinking there has to be more than just getting through the day.”
⟡ “I don’t trust myself to make a decision because what if I regret all of them?”
⟡ “I don’t know who I’d be if I wasn’t needed all the time.”
⟡ “I thought being strong would feel different than this.”
⟡ “I don’t want to disappear. I just want the noise to stop.”
⟡ “I don’t know how to ask for help without feeling like I failed.”
⟡ “I keep hoping something will force my hand so I don’t have to choose.”
⟡ “I don’t know how to leave without hurting someone.”
⟡ “I don’t want to be the reason everything changes.”
⟡ “I don’t know if I’m scared of losing this or scared of keeping it.”
⟡ “I feel like I’m watching my own life instead of living it.”
⟡ “I don’t know how much longer I can carry this and still call it living.”
⟡ “I keep thinking tomorrow I’ll feel different. Tomorrow keeps showing up the same.”
⟡ “I don’t know if I’m asking for permission or forgiveness.”
