Recovery fog is real. So is the slow, quiet grief that thins your attention down to a paper strip. These pages aren't an assignment — they are an invitation to be a little bit interested in being alive again. Print them. Scribble. Skip a page. Come back.
page one
One good question
Pick one. Write the question at the top of a page and answer with whatever comes — even “I don’t know yet.”
- What did I used to be curious about, before everything got loud?
- What is one thing I’d learn about if nobody were grading me?
- What’s a small mystery in my own life I’d like to understand?
- What’s a question I keep almost-asking somebody?
page two
One short read
Read three pages of anything that has nothing to do with surviving. A poem. A cookbook. A field guide. A children’s book. Then jot down one sentence you want to remember.
- What I read:
- One sentence I want to keep:
- Why it caught me:
page three
One small noticing
Go outside or look out a window for two slow minutes. Then write down five things you noticed — not pretty, just true.
Noticing is a thinking skill. You just used it. Your brain is still in there.
A small permission slip
You are allowed to be a beginner at being awake again. You are allowed to learn slow. You are allowed to find a thing interesting for no reason at all. Curiosity is a recovery skill — and it grows back.
— Briana
keep going, gently
More free printables on the Intellectual shelf of the barn — and a quiet pile of short reads on the blog.
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