5/15/25

Recovery Homework #2 📝 Current vs. Future Self

1) Get your Feelings List and Good Feelings List, for reference. You'll probably need both, for this one. (Both are available right here in the Universe, under Resources.)

2) Get a piece of paper (typing is fine too) and make two columns: "Current Self" and "Future Self."

3) Choose 12 feelings that describe how you most often feel currently (for your Current Self).

4) Choose 12 feelings, in the other column, that you want your Future Self to experience on a regular basis. Don't confine yourself to what you think is "realistic" -- that's the whole point, to let yourself IMAGINE the ways you would ideally want to feel, on a day-to-day basis.

5) If you want to add more than 12 feelings to either your Current or Future Self, by all means, go ahead! I just like everyone to have a "core 12" as their foundation, here.

6) Look at the differences between the feelings you listed for your Current vs. Future Self. No judgments, please -- just some open-minded reflection, in the minutes, hours, and days afterwards, about how you might begin to move yourself from the left side to the page to the right. What sorts of thoughts and behaviors would prompt the improved emotions in your Future Self?

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