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Ninety Prompts

Name: Ninety Prompts
Brand: North & Mind Studio

A year of questions in eight themes

The problem with journaling is rarely time. It is the empty page. This booklet gives you ninety questions — sorted by what is actually going on. For evenings when it doesn’t stop, and for days when nothing comes to mind.

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Eight themes, in this order:

Arriving — describing what is, without interpreting it
Gaining distance — writing about yourself as if about someone else
What weighs on you — the part studied most thoroughly
When it doesn’t stop at night — writing down what is open
Too much — limits, time, and what may be left undone
What holds you up — deliberately after the difficult part
People — sentences you can say out loud
What may come — the view forward

The order is not accidental: the tools for distance come before the difficult part, because that is where they are needed.

For anyone who has bought an empty journal and put it down again. And for anyone who can’t switch off in the evening because too much is still open.

What you get

A booklet with 20 content pages + info page, including a page of ten prompts for five minutes, for tired evenings
Four writing templates to reprint — lined, split, open and a letter template — with an instruction page
A discreet line pointing to help on the lined, split and open sheets — not on the letter template, which gets sent
A page that tells you when to stop — with concrete signs, not platitudes
How to find the crisis line responsible in your country, plus verified numbers for several countries
One example answer, already started, for every theme, so you can see what it might look like. Plus two guided exercises: the third person and the thank-you letter
A writing rhythm page and a review after four weeks
Everything also as an ink-saving edition

What the evidence shows — and where it stops

A summary of 146 randomised studies on writing about difficult experiences found a small overall effect (Frattaroli 2006) — larger when people wrote more than once and when the questions were concrete. Stepping back from the first person was studied under social stress, mostly thinking rather than writing (Kross et al. 2014). In a sleep laboratory, 57 healthy students fell asleep about nine minutes faster when they wrote down what was coming up before bed — two writing tasks were compared, not writing against doing nothing (Scullin et al. 2018). Moving worries to a fixed time reduces time spent worrying, but did not improve sleep in a more recent randomised trial. The gratitude findings are modest and shrink against active control groups (Cregg & Cheavens 2021). The sources page states, for each piece of work, what it does not give you. Developed by Jessica Yasmine Iannelli Manser, lic. phil., psychologist FSP and specialist in emergency psychology SBAP.