It made me think about it more concretely and examine it from multiple angles.
I really enjoyed the journaling prompts. Because this feels like such a private and painful topic, I try to never have the conversation … with my partner or with myself.
This exercise allowed me to explore a train of thoughts I haven’t really allowed myself to follow. It’s helped me to put into words what some of my fears and anxiety around sex are.
It is trying to protect me and really is centered around deeper thoughts
It feels a bit like therapy, in the sense, I’m realising on my own the issues that I am having with the app just asking me questions that genuinely make me think. I’m looking forward to seeing what else it can do and how it might help further
Never had any issues until the last year, hardships cause stress, stress raises cortisol, makes that inner critic so loud I can’t turn it off. When you have trouble in the bedroom you can’t even get that release and connection with your partner you so deeply crave, causing more emotion distress, it’s a snowballing effect
I enjoyed journaling for the first time I never thought of it as a useful tool but seeing my responses back and with the interaction with the A.I tool it helped it made me feel productive.
Not really
Yes journaling is a great experience for me always. Helps calm me down in a lot of ways too
Was okay. I need to focus on the critic and realise it doesn’t serve me.
Yes it made me understand myself more
Was really good made me realise this is something I really need to focus on
It is important to be attentive and recognize the pattern when my inner voice speaks up in a negative way that could affect my stress levels
Good. It makes me realize there are real reasons I get anxiety about being intimate, but the only reason those have any effect is because I let them affect me.
Writing things down definitely help as it allows me to express my feelings as I have a hard time telling people how I feel as I feel they will judge me and look at me differently and I want them to be able to rely on me.
Writing it down really helps as it makes me more aware of it. It’s interesting that my inner critic is trying to protect me but it’s misfiring its protectiveness, so to speak
Enables me to get things out of my head and to validate my concerns. These are certainly elements that I can assess and eliminate
Too early to tell whether the act of writing down will be beneficial
That my inner critic isn’t me it’s a feeling
It helps me understand the problem in smaller sections
That its not doing me any favours