I recently went through a really difficult period where I suffered from a severe lack of self-worth. People I thought were my friends were cruel or dismissive to the point I questioned whether or not I actually had or even deserved any real friends. It was a horribly dark place, and I retreated into it for what felt like a very long time. One day I was talking to someone I had felt was a true friend, even though I was reluctant to connect, afraid to find out they weren’t. But thank goodness I found the courage to push through my fears and share what I had been experiencing. 

A day or two later she contacted me and asked if I wanted to do an experiment with her. She proposed we do something together that she’d just heard about from Suleika Jaouad, the originator of The Isolation Journals. The project was a 100 Day Challenge to respond to a journal prompt every day from Jaouad’s latest publication, The Book of Alchemy.