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?
Write a letter to someone you’ve outgrown, even if you never send it.
You know who you are,
It is time to move forward. You have always been in my life because of who you are. When we talk, you never see me. Instead you only see you. You talk only about your interests. You never see mine. You don’t see me. You only care about you. We don’t share commonalities because I wouldn’t know them. I have never been able to find them because you never shared your authenticity with me. Instead I have gotten a watered down version of a racist, prejudicial individual that should have been someone else in my life. I always feel that weirdness because I see everyone else’s relationship with theirs and it is so different than our relationship. Our relationship has never been truly healthy because it was never allowed to be.
Did you know that I am allowed to like what I like? I am allowed to read what I want to read? Do you know that simply that I am allowed to exist in my own truths instead of yours? I have spent a lifetime hoping that I could get your approval. I have tried numerous times to even say I love you, but instead I would get little to nothing in return. It is sad because all I wanted was acknowledgement, but now that desire is gone. It has changed to indifference and no longer wanting to push through to have a relationship with an individual that I feel is hateful deep down. I have chosen a life of loving other people. Even when I “hate” people, it is more in a “I am drained from working with them” or actually helping them. I don’t hate to just hate others. I don’t say certain people are “THOSE TYPES” because for me we all are human beings that deserve kindness. We all deserve hopes and dreams, even those at the bottom of society. I see beauty in all of us and I am not sure you ever have felt that in your life. I believe you have only ever seen yourself and what your own wants and desires are. I have never thought I would arrive at thinking you were a true narcissist person, but I do believe that you are.
I have forgiven you for things that you could not have known. The trauma that was received from certain family members. You couldn’t have known that. It was hurtful though and it was real. It was something that I lived through. I have let go of unjust pain, but there is still pain that is just. There is still pain that is real. The lack of time spent together. The lack of feeling like I had a relationship with you that was normal. I am done feeling hurt by you. I am done trying to reach out to you to create a relationship that is not positive for me. It is painful, but it is what we both need. Mainly what I need because I recognize that there has been a lot of pain pushed onto me because you wanted me to be a version that fit into a mold you created. I am my own person and that appears to hurt you deeply, but I am going to continue to step into my own light and not yours. I am happy to be my own person, not living in your shadow.
Shaun B. Winters
