These are prompts from some other place besides a book that ask to examine certain aspects of yourself. I will not have created these prompts myself, so I want to pay respect that they came from somewhere.
This months’ prompts are going to be coming from this substack that I recently started following:
https://open.substack.com/pub/theebookclubx/p/31-journal-prompts-for-november-learning?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
November Prompts
- What part of yourself are you finally ready to understand?
- What does “peace” mean to you now and what used to disturb it?
- Write about a moment that changed how you see yourself.
- What habits or patterns do you want to leave in this year?
- Who in your life feels like warmth and why?
- Describe a version of yourself that you’re growing into.
- What would your younger self thank you for today?
- What does emotional maturity look like to you?
- Write about a time you chose peace over proving a point.
- How do you know when it’s time to let something end?
- What part of your healing still feels unfinished?
- What lesson did this year try to teach you, gently or otherwise?
- Write about a time you surprised yourself.
- How do you show up for others without losing yourself?
- What are you no longer apologizing for?
- Write a letter to someone you’ve outgrown, even if you never send it.
- What boundaries have made your life better?
- How do you comfort yourself when you don’t feel understood?
- Describe your relationship with stillness.
- What does authenticity mean to you right now?
- Write about something you’re proud of but rarely mention.
- What truth have you been avoiding?
- How does solitude make you feel? peaceful or lonely?
- Write about a time you felt seen without needing to explain yourself.
- What are you learning to forgive yourself for?
- How do you measure growth without comparing yourself to others?
- What does “home” mean beyond a place?
- What are you currently seeking, emotionally, spiritually, or mentally?
- Write about a moment of clarity you’ve had recently.
- How have you changed since January?
- What kind of person do you hope to be walking into the new year?
Who in your life feels like warmth and why?
As I continue to do these prompts, I am realizing how negative some of my responses seem. The fact is that I have no been in a healthy place for awhile and these prompts are making me fully grasp that. These prompts are allowing me to see some harsh truths about life and because I am being honest, I am feeling them fully. This is vital work that I am doing, I can feel that in my bones.
Warmth is not something that I have felt for another person in any capacity for a long time. I feel compelled to help others and I continue to be driven by that desire to help them achieve whatever they need to be happy on this planet, so the people I woke with as “clients” are probably the closest to who current provides me warmth. I feel like when I am working with them that I am living my life’s purpose. I want to help them so badly to get back to a healthy place in their own life, as best as I can. I want to be able to provide some relief from their current situations. They provide a light for my heart that I forgot they provide. They provide me with goals and hope. It is weird to say that they provide hope when I work with homeless individuals, but it is because I see them as magical in their own ways. I see their faces right now as I write this and think how each of them have touched my heart in some way, even if minor. They have allowed me to continue going forward to help others. Without them life would have felt pretty bleak recently. I know that when I am sitting in front of someone helping them that I am living my life’s purpose. That is vital for me to remember because if I look outside of this, I do not feel a lot of warmth for others. I need to reconnect to the warmth. It might be time to light a candle and find warmth for the rest of humanity again because it is lacking currently within my body. Not just because of my own personal health struggles, but because I have lost a spark. I need to find the flint again and relight that fire. I need to remember my truths of wanting to be there for all humans, including those I work with and those that do not fit into my target population of work. All human beings deserve an advocate. I will find that candle again and it will be light again. I need to shine the light through my own darkness at this point.
