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?
Describe your relationship with stillness.
Often in this world we are asked to go always. We are told that we have to be productive in every single moment we are existing or something is wrong. We are to come home and clean our house. We are to work 8 hours. We are to “take the kids” here or there (I don’t have kids but I understand this is a concept for most people). We are always supposed to be going. We are not told to have peace or stillness. These are concepts that we have to teach ourselves.
Stillness is a concept that I have been pushing to have in my life. Allowing myself not to engage with my phone especially. Having moments where I am not engaged with something in some way. Sometimes this is just sitting on a couch with the lights off and allowing whatever noises to come in, but not having to DO anything. This is because I am wanting to establish a healthy relationship with stillness or allowing myself to have peace in life.
I noticed within this last year that when I was doing peaceful activities, like even reading a book, I would get an overwhelming amount of anxiety. When I took the time to ask myself why I was feeling this, it always came back to the first paragraph of this entry: I felt I had to be doing something. I didn’t feel productive. I forced myself to stop and just read. This was anxiety producing for the first few months, but as I continued to do this a calmness within my physical body began to happen. That anxiety was going away because I was teaching my body that stillness and peacefulness are okay in this moment. There are many forms of stillness that we can have within ourselves. We may have stillness in a relationship. It can take on whatever we need, but we need to find it.
Stillness for me is still something I am growing into. When you are told to always be on for others or anything that teaches your brain that you are not good enough, it is hard to defeat that self-talk that comes off that. I am a work in progress, but I know that the journey to stillness is vital to a happy and productive life. I deserve to have a good life, so do you.
