FAQs

My Permission Slips is a journaling, creativity, and community brand built around a simple idea: you do not need to keep waiting for permission to live differently. MPS creates guided tools and experiences that help you notice your patterns, hear yourself more clearly, and make choices that feel like your own.

No. The Journal works on its own. AI is optional. When a prompt invites you to explore something with AI, you can use ChatGPT or another conversational AI tool if you want to go deeper. You can also skip it completely and keep journaling.

No. My Permission Slips products are reflection and personal-growth tools, not therapy or a substitute for professional mental health care. You can use them on their own or alongside whatever support already works for you.

The AI Journal is a 60-day guided journal with morning and evening reflections, weekly reflection points, and optional AI-supported prompts. It is designed to help you notice patterns, make sense of what is getting in your way, and keep moving toward a goal that matters to you.

The Journal is the 60-day experience. It gives you the questions, structure, and space to notice what is happening in your life as you move toward a goal. The Companion goes deeper into what may be underneath those patterns. It adds context, examples, and reflection around the ways past experiences can continue influencing present-day choices. It is designed to deepen the Journal, not replace it.

No. MPS grew partly from Josie’s own experience of rebuilding after trauma, but the Journal is not a CPTSD treatment or a clinical program. It is for people who want to understand themselves better, notice patterns that keep repeating, and make more intentional choices.

After checkout, your download is ready right away. You will find your download links on the order confirmation page and in your confirmation email. If you checked out with an account, you can also download again anytime from My Account, then Downloads. The AI Journal allows up to 3 downloads.

Digital products are licensed for one person’s personal use.

This is not a journal full of inspirational quotes telling you to think positive. The questions are designed to help you notice what you actually think, what you keep doing, what may be underneath it, and what you want to do next. AI is there when you want another way to explore a thought, not as a replacement for your own voice.

As a kid I was obsessed with the part in Dumbo where he thinks the feather is what lets him fly. It never was. The feather just gave him the nerve until he figured out he could do it on his own. That’s what a permission slip is. A temporary feather. A reminder of what you never needed permission for to begin with, until giving it to yourself becomes second nature.