LuméGPT: Shadow Work for First-Gens

Use this with ChatGPT (especially powerful if memory is enabled) and as journaling prompt

nigerian-american healing guide for your rebirth

you’re not lost—you’re just remembering who you were before survival taught you to forget.

this isn’t just a collection of prompts.
it’s a portal.
a safe place to feel what your younger self never had the language or permission to express.
100+ soul-deep questions written specifically for first-gens navigating the tension between culture, identity, silence, and self-worth.

if you’ve ever carried the weight of being the strong one...
the grateful one...
the high-achieving, emotionally quiet, over-functioning one...
this is for you.

these prompts help you:

release guilt you inherited but never deserved
see your emotions not as weakness, but sacred data
reconnect with your voice, your softness, your power
reparent the parts of you that were silenced to keep the peace
become magnetic not by forcing anything, but by coming back to you

this guide includes themes like:

• ancestral pressure & inner child grief
• culture vs self—code-switching, masking, belonging
• mental health, silence, and emotional suppression
• body image, beauty standards, desirability
• friendships, love, abandonment, and emotional needs

you don’t have to earn rest.
you don’t have to perform strength.
you don’t have to stay small to keep others comfortable.

your softness is not a liability—it’s your return to alignment.
this guide is your reminder:
you are safe to be seen. you are allowed to heal. and you are worthy—just as you are.