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://substack.com/@theebookclubx/p-180404522
December journal prompts
1. What did this year teach me about myself that I didn’t know before?
2. Which version of me am I leaving behind in 2025?
3. What am I proud of myself for, even if no one else noticed?
4. Which disappointments from this year still live in my body, and what permission do I need to release them?
5. What boundaries did I learn to set or wish I had set sooner?
6. Write about one person who made your year a little softer.
7. What small, mundane moments brought me unexpected joy?
8. What blessings arrived quietly, without fanfare?
9. What did I survive that I didn’t think I would?
10. What parts of my life feel like answered prayers?
11. What did love (romantic or otherwise) teach me this year?
12. How did I show up for the people I care about, and how did they show up for me?
13. What is one relationship I want to nurture more intentionally in the new year?
14. Which connections drained me, and why did I hold onto them?
15. What does a healthy, gentle love look like for the version of me I am becoming?
16. What habits helped me grow and which ones quietly held me back?
17. What fear dominated my decision-making this year, and how can I release it?
18. What is one truth about myself I can no longer ignore?
19. What did I learn about trusting my intuition?
20. How did I show resilience even when I doubted myself?
21. What do I want December-me one year from now to thank me for?
22. What kind of energy do I want to carry into the new year?
23. What is something I want to try, even if I’m afraid or unprepared?
24. What word or theme do I want to guide me in 2026?
25. What would a gentle, ease-filled life look like and what is one step I can take toward it?
26. What is one thing I forgave myself for this year, even quietly?
27. What old dream am I ready to revisit with a wiser, gentler heart?
28. What did this year reveal about what I truly value , beyond status, speed, or success?
29. Where did I experience unexpected beauty this year, and what did it teach me about paying attention?
30. What is one soft promise I want to make to myself as the new year begins?
What blessings arrived quietly, without fanfare?
I am sitting here trying to think about what blessings have occurred this year. I had to look up blessing examples because my brain struggles with the word blessing because it has a religious context to me and I just realized that. I would say that I have been able to have small blessings in the fact that this year has been a lot of forgiveness over things that had been held in by my body. I let go of hurt from childhood. Blame that I had. It went away without much fanfare as well. It wasn’t some big explosive moment that something occurred within me, instead it was a quiet reflection that allowed me to recognize that the anger held in my body was not serving a purpose for me. This helped me to let it go. This was a huge blessing in my life because I was holding onto things from a person that literally is no longer alive. I held onto such pain and felt like I needed to stay angry to be alive. This simply isn’t true, I am allowed to be alive without the anger. I am allowed to live without feeling sadness because what was or what never happened because of the way my life was. This life made me who I am today and I have to learn to respect that. It is a blessing to start down this healthier mental path for myself. My body is starting to feel less keyed up all the time because I am practicing more gratitude, which is a blessing that has occurred quietly without fanfare. It has all been small, incremental changes that are starting to show in bigger ways within my life. Like many of my posts lately have been saying, there is still a lot of journey ahead of me and I am still on this path forward to healing. I can just tell that I am closer now than I have been in the past because I am letting go finally.
