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?
What does emotional maturity look like to you?
Emotional maturity looks different for each person. We all have our own picture of emotional maturity that fits for us. Mine has been painted into looking like honesty that sometimes has a sharp edge to it, but is always with an intentional healing purpose. It is never to be spiteful, mean, or malicious in nature. It is just knowing that when truth is spoken into the air it changes the conversation. It allows reality to be heard and allows the world to adapt. I have learned that emotional maturity for me is unique because so many other people stay true to versions that they feel that they have to be to be in a professional setting. I do not feel that I have to put on that fake mask, which may get me in trouble in environments that try to stay masked. I am finding emotional maturity is knowing where you fit and where you belong. You can find that anywhere in the world though and that is a new concept for me. I am finding that when you are authentic, you do not have to question about emotional maturity it is just there breathing.
Emotional maturity is a new concept for me because I think I have always thought that not crying was maturity, but that is not. It is just a concept that we teach people to hide their inner vulnerability. We tell others to not feel their feelings to be “professional” or to be able to work in society, but if life be lyfing we should be able to voice that together as a vulnerable population. We are all experiencing very real things in the world at many times, but we hide behind a happy smiling mask that is not truth. Emotional maturity is allowing yourself to wade through those murky, muddy waters of lies that are attached to living in the world and saying, “I won’t drown in this and I will rise above.”
