Dear Self: Reclaiming Your Energy Understanding Control, Influence, & Acceptance

Inside, you'll find:

• An introduction to the Control, Influence, and Acceptance model, and why sorting your energy this way isn't about giving up, it's about redirecting it

• Guided "Ask Yourself" reflections for each category, helping you locate where your choices, your voice, and your acceptance each belong

• A visual Circle of Control, Influence & Acceptance to map your own experience

• The Sorting Your Energy exercise, a step-by-step way to work through a real, current situation that's been weighing on you

• Space to notice where you've been overextending your energy, and where you're ready to release or hold something more lightly

• A closing intention-setting exercise to carry your insights forward

This workbook doesn't ask you to control everything or accept everything; it helps you tell the difference, so your energy goes where it can actually make a difference. It can be used on its own or alongside support from a therapist.

This workbook is a companion resource and is not a substitute for professional mental health treatment. If a situation you're working through here still feels too heavy to hold alone, that's worth bringing to a therapist or trusted support person.

By Carolyn Carrier, Carrier Counselling & Consulting