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?
How do you comfort yourself when you don’t feel understood?
Some of the way that I comfort myself when I don’t feel understood may not exactly be publishable on the internet. Okay, the truth is often when I am not understood I call the other person a name because I say that it is the person’s issue for not understanding me. I try not to totally make it my inner world issue because that can become toxic, but after saying the mean thing about the other person I LET IT GO. That is a vital step. I do not hold onto negative energy about other people because that creates negative energy within my own soul.
When it is a very trying moment where I feel misunderstood, I will make sure that I do something that day that allows myself to feel better. Sometimes this may be watching something that creates laughter. Other times it may be reading a book. Still others it results in food related items that provide me some comfort. In the worst moments of this, I will cry. I allow myself to feel the emotion that I am truly feeling so that I am feeling better by the end of the emotional rollercoaster, since when I feel misunderstood it usually triggers autistic meltdown issues for me.
Music is another way that I will sometimes comfort myself. I will listen to an empowering song that triggers a core memory of times that I have been strong. This allows me to defeat any negative mindsets that are coming from the person not understanding me. I feel like I have developed a lot of tools for not being understood. There are people though that trigger this in me to an extreme degree, especially in my various work environments that I have been. Sometimes my emotional regulation will go off the rails because of the individual. I am still learning how to 100% control that when it is triggered more by a specific person’s behavior in the misunderstanding and less about something that I am not understanding. When it is someone at a job, it can be a challenge because you want to be professional, but you have to also learn to express the emotion or you will feel it in other areas of your life where you do not. I express my emotions and this provides me comfort. It allows me to not take it into my home life. Never take things that happen in one environment into another environment and allow it to change how you interact with people in the new environment. That is an important life lesson and one that I make sure I remember at all times. I purposefully even have tools set-up at home when it is a day that I can’t disconnect, which one tool is that I will go to my bedroom and close the door. No one is allowed to interact with me. It allows me to interact when I am feeling healthier and not going to cause issues with other people. Find what works for you because having tools when people don’t understand you is important.
