Time to Journal
Explore the insights and experience of your ketamine session
Post Ketamine Session
Immediately following your ketamine treatment session and before leaving the clinic, you are encouraged to journal about your experience. Include any insights, messages, visuals, bodily sensations, questions to ponder, etc. You may write down just words, complete sentences, or even sketch images of your experience.
The details of the ketamine experience will dissipate with time much like awakening from a dream. Therefore, jot down anything without needing to label any insight as good or bad or find meaning within what you are writing. Allow the process to unfold, and the integration or making sense of the experience will happen as time progresses.
Journal Prompts
(Same Day as Ketamine Session)
Please remember to not feel the need to make meaning or create goals right away. These questions are here to help you explore, but you are encouraged to freely write anything and everything you experienced without needing to understand its purpose. Let it all unfold and take your time with what is presenting itself to you.
What came up for you during the journey? Explore any visuals, sounds, bodily sensations.
How do you feel about what was revealed to you during the journey?
What is coming up for you after the journey?
What do you think your experience was trying to tell/show you?
How do you feel about what this new insight has shown you?
What are the things you can let go of that no longer serve you?
How can you create new habits to help make these new changes more lasting?
What are the action steps you can take to help create positive change for your life?
Did your anchoring statement/mantra help during your journey?
Did a new one emerge and become more connected to anchor your next journey?
The first 48 hours after your ketamine session is when your brain is the most neuroplastic or ready for change. Remember to journal how you might create a plan for a new path ahead.
Ask yourself…
What can you do to enrich, expand, and explore moving toward connecting to the life you most envision for yourself?
Daily Journaling
Your brain likes patterns and often wants to return to what is “familiar.”
It may scan your environment to notice what hasn’t changed instead of noticing what new patterns are emerging. Daily journaling is a good way to keep connected to the progress you are already seeing in yourself to extend and enrich healing.
What is my intention statement for today?
How will I use the insight gained from my ketamine session to create change today?
How do I want to feel today and why?
What were the most challenging moments yesterday and how did I handle them differently today?
What moments brought me joy or made me feel more connected to my best self and why?
What ideas emerged as to how I can engage in a plan to continue to move through and past the hurdles that have been holding me back?