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 truth have you been avoiding?
That in life there are moments for change and to move on. That sometimes the truth is that we have outgrown where we are in life. It is hard when you know that certain things or commitments have to occur still and you have to wait. Waiting is hard, but the truth is that where I am in life is in a holding pattern for certain dates and things to happen. This is the truth. The truth is I am waiting for the future so that I can live the life that I want and it is gets hard some days because I can see where I want to be, but it isn’t time. There is a time line ahead of me and I need to hold tight to it. I avoid thinking about this because when I do I get upset because I know where I want to be in life, but I know that I am not there.
There are so many truths that I am avoiding. That I have out grown some parts of my life and that it may mean that I leave people behind again. I don’t want to lose them completely this time though. I have lost a lot of people in this life and I am tired of losing people, but the truth is that to get to the next chapter I may have to let go. I may have to let people go and that is sad to me as someone that has lived so many lives. I have left so many people behind to get to where I need to be in this life. I am ready to settle, but I need to be where my soul wants to be. I can see it and it means changing so many things and that is the truth that I am avoiding. That to be happy, it is necessary to change so many things. I am avoiding focusing on that right now because if I started it, I would have to go full tilt. I would have to get certain aspects of my life in order and I am just not sure that I am ready yet. Am I and I am just avoiding that truth as well, that I am ready, but all that needs to happen is the right time. No this is not a “perfect timing” situation, there is literally a surgery that needs to occur first and I need to recover from it first before I can start to make the necessary changes in this life. I think part of me is avoiding that truth as well, that I am in that holding pattern because of my medical situation currently. I have a fractured ankle and most people do not seem to think that is real, but it is. I have the medical records to prove it. I need the surgery and once it happens, I think I will be able to push forward with where my future is headed. I see several paths, but I know which one I personally want to go down and it is time to start working towards that path. That means there is work to be done.
I didn’t think I was going to put this truth on here, but my soul suddenly said to do it as I got to the end of this writing. The truth I have avoided the most is how unhealthy I have gotten. I do not eat healthy. I do not exercise (yes, I have a fractured ankle, but there is still things I could do). I have mentally gotten to the worst mentality I have ever been at. I know that I am avoiding that truth a lot. I have gotten to 250 lbs because of unhappiness in life. This is no one else’s fault and I am not even to blame, it just happened. I have avoided this truth though. I can’t even truly look in a mirror because I do not like what I see. I see my stomach and it doesn’t look like me. I don’t see me any more. I used to love to be a silly person and I don’t now. I feel like I am a work horse and that is it. Often I feel like all I was doing was coming home and putting myself in front of a TV show that I didn’t care about. It has been weird this last week because I started listening to audio books and for some reason that has jarred me back to reality about where I am in life. I have allowed myself to do things that do not make me happy for others and that is a truth I keep trying hard to avoid, that ME, MYSELF, and I have allowed myself to get to a horrible mental place. I can’t say it is someone’s fault any more, it is mine. I am 44 years old and I don’t want to live in the mental places that I have been in during this last couple of years. I do not want to live like this or I won’t be alive. That is the truth I avoid, I avoid telling myself to choose happiness.
