My mental and physical health have been in the dumps lately. I had to let go of a lot of things that I love(my business included) that mean the world to me because I couldn’t keep up with the physical and emotional demands.. I haven’t loved myself much lately but I’ve found journaling helps a lot!! So, I hope these prompts can help you learn to love yourself too!
Day One: What’s your biggest struggle with loving yourself? For example; I feel like I can never finish anything, even the things I’m good at and enjoy. I don’t love myself b/c I see myself as a failure).
Day Two: Get rid of a limiting belief that you have about yourself or your abilities.
Day Three: What’s a positive habit you want to begin this month?(i.e. washing your face every morning, starting a gratitude journal, this? would probably count lol)
Day Four: Do you struggle to accept compliments? Why do you think that is? Is there a specific one you struggle with the most?
Day Five: What is something you are proud of doing this past week?
Day Six: What do you need to forgive yourself fore?
Day Seven: Name something that you love about your personality and something you love about your body! ♡
Day Eight: When or where in your life do you need to slow down and take your time?
Day Nine: What is something in your life that you need to let go off in order to heal?
Day Ten: What can you do to set better boundaries in your life?
Day Eleven: How would you describe yourself in a loving way to a stranger?(Think about how your loved ones might talk about you!)
Day Twelve: What things make you feel happy to be alive?
Day Thirteen: What is something your younger self would be proud of you for today?
Day Fourteen: What are you afraid to ask for(in work, relationships, etc.)? What do you need to do to learn to speak up about it?
Day Fifteen: What is the most loving thing you have ever done for yourself?
Day Sixteen: Plan something loving to do for yourself when you finish these journal prompts! It could be going to Build-a-Bear, taking a bubble bath, playing your fave video game, however you express self love!
Day Seventeen: Set three short term goals for yourself and three long term goals for yourself.
Day Eighteen: What is one change you can make to increase your happiness?
Day Nineteen: In what ways are you making the world a better place?
Day Twenty: How can you give yourself a break today(mentally, physically, or emotionally?).
Day Twenty-One: What’s something you’re working on believing that you deserve?
Day Twenty-Two: What things or habits make you feel bad but you find yourself doing them anyways?
Day Twenty-Three: What does your support system look like? How can you make it stronger?
Day Twenty-Four: What’s something you wish someone would say to you?
Day Twenty-Five: What are some things you are really good at?
Day Twenty-Six: What parts of yourself do you feel you are ashamed of? How would you describe your shadow self?
Day Twenty-Seven: What’s one choice you can make right now that you future self will be grateful for?
Day Twenty-Eight: Who do you look up too or who inspires you? What qualities do you share with them?
Day Twenty-Nine: What words or beliefs do you want to live your life by?
Day Thirty: What labels(negative, positive, and neutral) do you assign yourself?
Day Thirty-One: Going forward what can you do to commit to loving yourself everyday?
I recently started an intimacy journal as a way to work through some of my hang ups with intimacy/sexuality - so, naturally, I came up with some prompts for it, which I have yet to really delve into myself, but I figured I’d go ahead and share the ones I’ve come up with thus far for safe-keeping, and because I think some of you might find them useful, too.
This particular set focuses on the sexual/romantic aspect of intimacy more so than the general human connection aspect, and it’s very much geared toward art journaling in addition to written journaling.
What is intimacy to you?
Illustrate intimacy.
List some non-sexual acts of intimacy.
Describe your idea of a fulfilling intimate encounter.
What does sex mean to you?
Illustrate sexuality/eroticism.
Illustrate femininity/yonic energy.
Illustrate masculinity/phallic energy.
List some turn-ons and/or fantasies.
Describe your idea of a fulfilling sexual encounter.
Illustrate a vagina.
Illustrate a penis.
Illustrate orgasm.
What is love to you?
Illustrate love.
Illustrate your and/or an ideal lover.
Illustrate yourself in all your vulnerability.
List some varying acts of love.
Describe your idea of a fulfilling partnership.
In what ways can you cultivate more intimacy in your life in general and/or relationships in particular?
Disclaimer: Please bear in mind that I created these for personal use - they’re not meant to exclude anyone or in any way imply that intimacy cannot be experienced outside the bounds of sexuality.
“Days are passing but it’s all blurry to me. I don’t know if it’s 3am or 3pm. Whether it’s a Tuesday or a Thursday. It’s all passing, sometimes quickly and other times painfully slowly. No one has figured it out yet. How numb and empty I am. I wonder if they see me at all… or do they see me like how I see the days passing? Blurry.”
