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 about a moment of clarity you’ve had recently.
The biggest moment of clarity that I have recently had is that is if I don’t change things in my life, I am going to die. Worse than dying, I will die unhappy. Being hospitalized this time around has changed how I view the world. I had serious issues that seemed like a stroke, but were not a stroke. I thought I was going to completely lose the ability to speak forever. This brought a lot of clarity to where I am in this life. If I can’t find happiness, I need to make it for myself. I need to do things that make me happy. F whatever others want from me or want me to fit into to make them happy. I have to be true to who I am.
This isn’t sticking 100% all the time because it is a new concept for me to recognize, but I don’t want to die unhappy. Clarity on where I have been emotionally though is something I need to keep remembering. I can easily fall back into old patterns and allow myself to feel horrible about life. I want to be happy and that means that I have to get to places that make me happy. It means making a place that I want to live in. It means finding places that provide peace. Sitting in that hospital bed and then a chair in this room because I was on weird seizure precautions and being unable to move really brought into light where I was with this life. I have gotten to a place where I was more excited about sitting staring at a wall in a hospital than living a life in the town that I live.
I never thought I would get to a place where I couldn’t process my own existence literally and I don’t want to die feeling the level of sadness I felt staring at the doctors, nurses, other specialty doctors, patient techs, and more. I was overwhelmingly sad, not anxious. I was so sad that this was life. That it was where I was at. That I had so much medically going on and then when I removed myself from medical, I just saw a life of overwhelming repression, stiltedness. I have stalled my own life, for what reason? No good reason. To make other people happy. I don’t want to do that. I want to live in my own life. I am still trying to figure out how to do that. How do I live in my own life when my entire brain is predispositioned to care about other people and caring how they feel instead of my own emotions?
