YOUR STORY MATTERS: EMBRACING THE WEIGHT OF YOUR JOURNEY – SEASON 1, EPISODE 9

Episode 9: Your Story Matters: Embracing the Weight of Your Journey focuses on integrating personal experience as professional strategy, showing how the full scope of one's journey.  This includes challenges and how they become the foundation for unique leadership capacity.

JOURNAL PROMPTS - WEEK 9

DAY 1

Principle for Reflection: Your story—including the challenging parts—is not separate from your leadership capacity but is the foundation of your unique ability to serve and contribute.

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 my lived experience inform or enhance my leadership capacity today in ways I might not have previously recognized?

DAY 2

Principle for Reflection: The difference between being defined by your story and being informed by it determines whether your experiences limit you or empower you in your calling.

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 draw strength and wisdom from my experience today rather than feeling limited by my past?

DAY 3

Principle for Reflection: Your challenges have given you practical knowledge and insight that can't be learned from books—this lived experience creates credibility and expertise that serves others.

Reflection Questions:

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

End of Day Reminiscence: What unique insight from my experience did I share or apply today that helped someone else or enhanced a situation?

DAY 4

Principle for Reflection: Sacred integration means finding meaning in your experiences without being trapped by them, honoring wounds without being defined by them, celebrating growth without dismissing struggles.

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 sacred integration today—honoring my journey while staying focused on my forward movement?

DAY 5

Principle for Reflection: You have been prepared by everything you've lived for everything you're called to give—nothing has been wasted, and everything has contributed to your unique capacity.

Reflection Questions:

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

End of Day Reminiscence: What evidence did I see today that my entire journey has been sacred preparation for my current calling and contribution?