Reflecting on
Identity
Identity tends to ask its questions at the seams of a life.
© Identity
Overview
Reflecting on Identity is a guided journal for the quiet question of who you are now. It is a reflective journal: a place to sit with that question and set it down honestly, in your own handwriting.
What's inside
A short opening, then four movements: Noticing, Listening, Naming, and Becoming. Each two-page spread holds a single reflection and quiet space to write. The closing declines to resolve anything. Read in any order, write or do not. Nothing here is owed.
Draws on the following research
Kross, E., and Ayduk, O. Research on self-distanced reflection, and the finding that what, where, and how questions tend to invite reflection where why questions tend to invite rumination.
Neff, K. Research on self-compassion and a non-judgmental orientation toward one's own difficulty.
Pennebaker, J. W. Studies on expressive writing, and the value of repeated, spaced reflection over a single sitting.
Acceptance and commitment work in the psychological literature on naming values in concrete language.