Prompts I’ve found helpful recently:

What important moment(s) explain where I am that I would never share (that I would never put on my bio/CV)? What am I hiding and why?

If I truly and deeply loved myself, would I . . . do this / keep myself from doing this / let this be done to me / accept this in my life? What can I find out about what is behind what I don’t like about my life?

Try the Sarno method . Brain dump every big stressor in your life (past, present, character traits). I don’t know about you, but chances are that you’re censoring how you really feel about these. Notice that. Where do you hold yourself back?
- Gun to the head: imagine you woke up in the middle of the night with a gun to your head. You hear a voice: Tell me more about this . . . tell me the whole story. Everything. Be honest!
- Imagine that every time you hold back, every time you stumble, every time you police your language and make it nice and polite, imagine that the voice knows . Imagine it thundering: Tell me the truth! Tell me your truth, the truth as only you experience it right now.
- Be as specific as you can. Write it down. Say it out loud. Keep going until you find what is truly frozen. That can turn into a source of motion, wisdom, and energy. It might not happen in a short journaling session (though I hope you can release some of the pain and tension). But this is your access point.
- You can do the same exercise with your life’s story. Say your “elevator pitch” or imagine you gave a TED talk about your life. Then bring in the voice.

Witnessing the unspeakable you.