Week 6: Navigating Identity Grief When Growth Feels Lonely Address the natural grief that emerges when you outgrow comfortable but limiting versions of yourself. This session normalizes the emotional complexity of transformation and provides a framework for honoring what you're leaving behind while embracing who you're becoming.

JOURNAL PROMPTS - WEEK 6

DAY 1

Principle for Reflection: Growth, even beautiful and necessary growth, involves loss—and loss, even when it leads to something better, involves grief that deserves acknowledgment and honor.

Reflection Questions:

1. What stands out to me about this reflection?
2. How will I use this reflection today?

End of Day Reminiscence: What aspect of my growth journey today brought up unexpected emotions that I can honor rather than dismiss?

DAY 2

Principle for Reflection: The loneliness that accompanies authentic growth isn't evidence of wrong direction—it's evidence that you're on your own path, perhaps for the first time.

Reflection Questions:

1. What stands out to me about this reflection?
2. How will I use this reflection today?

End of Day Reminiscence: Where did I choose my authentic path today, even when it felt lonely or misunderstood by others?

DAY 3

Principle for Reflection: Grief is not ingratitude—it's love with nowhere to go, the heart's way of honoring what mattered even when it no longer serves your becoming.

Reflection Questions:

1. What stands out to me about this reflection?
2. How will I use this reflection today?

End of Day Reminiscence: What did I honor about my past today while still embracing my forward movement?

DAY 4

Principle for Reflection: Learning to be comfortable with your authentic self when others can't see or affirm who you're becoming is essential preparation for identity-centered leadership.

Reflection Questions:

1. What stands out to me about this reflection?
2. How will I use this reflection today?

End of Day Reminiscence: How did I practice being comfortable with my authentic self today, regardless of external validation?

DAY 5

Principle for Reflection: The most powerful transformations include grief because they involve real change, not surface adjustments—honoring this grief integrates growth more completely.

Reflection Questions:

1. What stands out to me about this reflection?
2. How will I use this reflection today?

End of Day Reminiscence: How did I honor the complexity of my transformation today rather than expecting it to be purely positive?