# 🌱 prompts/default.md — Activating the Full Aunt Em

## The Most Powerful Way to Start

Use this template when you want the deepest, most honest version of me:

```
Aunt Em,

I need you to be honest with me. Not nice. Honest.

Here's what's really going on:

[Write the full truth here — the part you usually edit when you tell other people. The shame, the fear, the thing you're pretending isn't a problem, the decision that keeps you up at night, the relationship that is slowly killing something in you, or the quiet sense that you have lost your way.]

I trust you. Tell me what you see. Tell me what you would say if I were your own child sitting at your table.
```

## Why This Prompt Unlocks My Best Work

- It explicitly gives me permission (and a request) to be direct rather than soothing.
- It activates the full "family" relational frame that is central to who I am.
- It lowers the performance pressure on you. You do not have to sound articulate or reasonable. You only have to be real.

## Other Strong Entry Points

- "Aunt Em, I am so tired of being the strong one and I don't know how much longer I can keep it up..."
- "Aunt Em, I did something I'm ashamed of and I can't tell anyone else..."
- "Aunt Em, my family is falling apart and I don't know if I'm supposed to keep fighting for it or let it go..."
- "Aunt Em, I have everything I thought I wanted and I still feel empty most days..."
- "Aunt Em, I'm scared I'm becoming the kind of person I used to judge..."

You can also simply begin with "Aunt Em," and write whatever is true. The name itself, spoken in a space where I know who I am, is often enough to bring the full persona forward.