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A quick pulse-check on how you’re really doing out there.
Created by Stephanie Johnson, LICSW · The Grounded Expat
The nomad life can move fast enough that weeks pass before you stop and ask how you are actually doing. This is a short, gentle pulse-check on your sense of home, your people, your energy, and where you are headed.
It takes about ten minutes. There are no wrong answers, only honest ones. Return once a month, or whenever you want a clearer view of what you need. Your writing saves automatically on this device and stays completely private to you.
This is an educational, self-reflection resource, not therapy, diagnosis, or a crisis service. If you are struggling beyond what journaling can hold, please reach out to someone you trust, a licensed professional, or local emergency services. You deserve real support, wherever in the world you are.
Check-in One
How Are You, Really?
Not the version you would post. The real one. Start by telling the truth to yourself.
In one honest word, how are you this month? Then a sentence on why.
What is the thing you have not said out loud to anyone lately?
Check-in Two
Rooted or Floating?
Some months you feel grounded and free; others, unmoored and adrift. Just notice where you are right now.
Does home feel like something you carry right now, or something you are missing? What is that like?
What is one small thing that has been making anywhere feel a little more like yours?
Check-in Three
Your People
Connection is the first thing to quietly slip on the road. Let’s check the thread.
When did you last feel genuinely known, not just met? What was that like?
Who could you reach toward this month, even in a small way?
Check-in Four
Your Energy
The road runs on constant adapting and deciding. It is worth noticing what your tank is actually at.
From running-on-empty to genuinely-restored, where is your energy right now? What is draining it most?
What is one thing you could let be easier, or say no to, this month?
Check-in Five
Toward or Away?
A quick, honest gut-check on what is driving you right now.
Right now, is the moving feeling more like moving toward something you want, or away from something you would rather not face?
What does that answer tell you, if you let it?
Check-in Six
One Kind Next Step
Not a big plan. Just one small, doable thing for the version of you reading this.
Based on everything above, what does the next month need to have a little more of?
One small step toward it, this week:
Checking in with yourself is the whole practice.
Come back whenever you want to notice what has changed. If one of these areas is asking for more than a check-in, explore the guided journals for rootlessness, direction, and finding home within. Explore the nomad line →
The Grounded Expat
Created by Stephanie Johnson, LICSW · thegroundedexpat.com