Description
This digital prompt deck contains 25 questions designed to help you explore your relationship with “the bright side” from multiple angles. Rather than pushing positivity, the prompts invite curiosity, friction, humour, and honesty. They are less about arriving at a better mindset and more about noticing what actually happens when brightness is expected, resisted, borrowed, performed, or quietly longed for.
Note: The Haven Monthly Pass includes access to all prompt decks
What the prompts tend to open up
People often find themselves exploring things like:
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Where optimism has felt supportive, and where it has felt imposed or premature
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How hope, denial, reassurance, and avoidance can blur into each other
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The difference between genuine lightness and socially rewarded cheerfulness
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What gets lost when brightness becomes a duty rather than a response
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How shadow, ambivalence, and humour can be forms of honesty rather than failure
Ways to use the deck
The prompts are deliberately adaptable. You might:
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Pull a single card for a few minutes of journalling, drawing, or mind-mapping
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Sit with one question over several days, noticing how your responses shift
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Use them as starting points for collage, art, or even zine-making
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Bring a prompt into therapy, coaching, or a reflective conversation
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Lay several prompts out together to spot patterns, tensions, or contradictions
There’s no correct pace, order, or outcome. The deck works best when treated as a companion for slow exploration rather than a tool for improvement.
What’s included
You will receive a downloadable PDF of all the cards, a list of the questions you can copy and use as you like, and a digital deck for picking cards at random.
