Hello there. It's Morgan Harper-Nichols here and welcome to today's episode. Today I want to share

with you three things that you can try when looking back is too difficult or too challenging.

So at the time I am recording this episode, I have been sharing quite a few different practices

and exercises and activities and different things that I have done personally that I use in

my personal life as a way to reflect. So I did a post recently where the very first slide says maybe the reason why you keep

listening to the same songs over and over is because they are bookmarks for feelings that you are

still working through. And one of the comments that someone left on this particular post is, what if we stopped listening to those songs because they remind us of a period of time and it's too painful to go back there.

So after they left this comment, I responded immediately after I saw it and I said, that is totally okay.

It is not at all a requirement or something that I am recommending that everyone engage in this

practice of reflecting or looking back in every area of their lives. So as I started typing this comment, I realize there are a lot of

things that I do in my own life when it comes to reflecting and when reflecting is too difficult

or too challenging. And I just wanted to share those with you. and it's something that I do spend a lot of

time with because as somebody who has ended up being a writer and an artist I end up having a pull

from the past quite a bit to create so I spend a lot of time in my personal archives and my phone's

camera roll in old journal entries. And it can, there are a lot of times where I'm like, okay,

I just can't get into that today or this year or in this season of my life. So I've broken down three things that I do when I'm in a space where I want to reflect

or I need to reflect in some way.

And I just hope that these things can be helpful if you find yourself in that space also. And also, I'll just give another disclaimer.

And this is for literally anything that I put out in the world in that anything that I put out

there that is, it doesn't matter if it's a poem or a painting or or an exercise or journal prompts.

These are all just suggestions.

Like I am not at all trying to say here is the way to navigate this.

...