Brain Unchained Journal

Using the strategies in the Brain Unchained Journal, there are two elements that work together. Firstly the two spider charts plus a journal entry, to reflect on each day's emotions without having to write lots of words, or overly describe the day's feelings. The visual diagrams encapsulates lots of feelings neatly, in a way that you can SEE them, without having to express them verbally.  This allows teens and young adults, time and space to look at their emotions objectively plus helping with processing and reflection.  Improving or maintain each of the scores through wellbeing strategies, with daily progress that takes just a couple of minutes a day, or use alongside the book Brain Unchained for best results.

Spider Chart One

H.E.L.P.S. are the only five changes that happen to create emotional change.  These are explained on the first two pages.  These describe the five areas of change that affect your emotions positively or negatively, and creates the goals or outcomes for emotional wellbeing.  Mark the spider chart to score your feelings, join the dots, or colour in segments to create a visual representation of emotions without words. 

Spider Chart Two

F.L.I.T.E. are the five root causes of negative change as explained on the first two pages, and double as the five solutions towards positive change.  Taking a moment to think of each of these and score them, offers reflection on the actions you need to take, or the help you need to seek.

Journal Entry

This allows you to add your thoughts about the day's score.  Why some areas were low scoring, or why they were a success.  Keeping a record of improvement gives you the opportunity to look back in time, and see how far you're emotional awareness has progressed.