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Choose one person within the past year that did something that you felt hurt or harmed by and whose actions (or inactions) triggered feelings of anger, guilt, resentment, sadness, or anxiety. It could also be a circumstance that happened seemingly beyond your control. Please spend five or more minutes writing down your feelings, beliefs, and experiences in your journal.

Throughout the book I have included sample responses and journal entries from my client April, so you can see how someone else worked through the exercises. Here's April's first contribution:

APRIL'S RESPONSE

I would say in the last year the person who hurt me most was my grandmom. I had always been pretty close to her, and when my dad died, I began to see a different side. Perhaps it was something I never noticed before, or maybe my dad's death was too much for her. Things just changed. It seemed she wanted less and less to do with my sisters and me. When I finally moved out of my old house, she barely wished me well, and I haven't heard from her since. She even told my sister that I was a thief for taking my dad's bed that I had been using for two years and said, “We'll all have our judgment day.” That hurt. I never took anything from her. I did whatever she needed me to do to help her, and in the end I guess it wasn't enough.