Free guided workbook

Understanding your patterns

A free, beautifully designed workbook with gentle narrative and systemic therapy prompts to help you notice the stories, relationships, and family patterns that shape you, and where you might begin.

  • 11 printable pages
  • Narrative prompts
  • Family map
  • Relationship cycles

What is inside

Eight gentle reflections

Short, meaningful prompts you can move through at your own pace, one page at a time.

01

Arrive first

A grounding practice to land in your body before you begin.

Grounding
02

The story you tell

Notice the main story you carry about yourself, and where it came from.

Narrative
03

Naming the problem

Separate yourself from what you struggle with, and find your strength.

Narrative
04

Your family map

Draw the people who shaped you and the patterns between them.

Systemic
05

Messages we inherit

Explore the unspoken family rules about love, rest, conflict, and more.

Systemic
06

The dance between us

Trace a recurring cycle in a close relationship, and one new step.

Relational
07

Writing a new chapter

Gather the values and people that support who you are becoming.

New chapter
08

A letter to yourself

Offer yourself the understanding you needed most.

Self compassion

Why we made this

A thoughtful place to begin

Our patterns rarely appear out of nowhere. They grow from our stories, our families, and the cultures that raised us. This workbook offers a quiet space to get curious, without pressure or judgment.

  • iCreated by the clinicians at Authentic Growth Counseling
  • iiPrintable, or fill it in on your tablet
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