When You're Doing Everything "Right" and Still Feel Stuck

30 journal prompts for the woman who is healing, but not sure it's working

Nobody talks about the frustration of doing everything right and still feeling off. Not the woman who has given up. The one who hasn’t. She is taking her supplements, eating clean, tracking her sleep, cutting the things that were hurting her. And something still feels wrong (gah!!!! the frustration!!!)

If that is you, this post is for you.

Feeling stuck in a healing journey is not a sign that you are doing it wrong. More often, it is a signal that something deeper has not yet been addressed (and you’re exhausted hearing it.. I know…). Sometimes it is physiological: a missed root cause, a stressor the body is still carrying, a system that has not yet had enough time or safety to restore itself. Sometimes it is identity: you have been unwell for so long that you no longer know who you are without the healing process as your primary focus. Sometimes it is both, tangled together in a way that is hard to separate.

The prompts below are not a protocol. They are not going to tell you which test to run or which supplement to add (please stop adding more will-nilly!!!). What they will do is help you slow down, look honestly at where you actually are, and start to hear the parts of yourself that tend to get drowned out by the noise of trying so hard to get better.

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Before you can figure out what needs to change, it helps to get honest about what is actually happening, not what you thought would be happening by now.

1. What does “feeling stuck” actually feel like in your body right now? Not your thoughts about it. Your body.