• Writing Prompts

    Different styles of writing prompts and ideas to create a journal entry about.

    A collection of ideas and reflections about a wide variety of topics.

Comfort Food

Reflect on foods that bring you comfort. Describe the items, and then the place and people associated with them.

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What are your roles?

List all of the roles you have taken on, been assigned, or chosen. Which of these do you enjoy? Which do you wish you could end? Are there roles you would like to add? Have these changed over time?

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Grieving

What are things or people you have lost that you miss? Is there a way you can bring that feeling you had with it or them into the present? Is there a way you can share your experience with others?

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Celebration

Write what you are celebrating 12 months from now. (Project yourself into the future.)

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Mind, Body and Spirit

Create a list of all of the ways you can honor your body, your mind, and your spirit. Choose one small thing from each list this week. Write about your feelings about that one thing each day.

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Meal with Someone

If you could go back in time and have a meal with anyone, who would it be, why, where would you eat, and what would the meal be?

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Super Hero

Describe yourself as a superhero. What would you be called? What would your outfit be? What talents or superpowers would you have? What would your role be in the world?

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Finances and Money

Describe your relationship with money growing up, when you started out on your own, now, and how you want it to be in the future. Think about the emotions it brings up to think about the following words: bills, allowance, payments, investing, budgeting, scarcity, excess, savings, spending, and account balance.

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Worthy, valuable, wanted, accepted…

What do these words make you think of? What emotions do they bring up? What affects these? (hint: Nothing; You are always worthy)

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Who was I, am I, and will be?

My full name (or names I have had) is…

Thinking about when you were young (middle school age):

What career/job/income source did I think I would have?

What was my wish for my relationship status?

I thought this about children…

Where did I think I would be living (both location and style of home)

What schooling or training did I think I would take part in?

What did I want to practice for religion or spirituality?

Thinking about your life right now:

My job/career/income source is…

My relationship status is….

Here is my situation with children….

I am living (both location and style of home)....

I went to school or was trained…

I am practicing my religion or spirituality through…

Thinking about the future: if you could do what brings you the most joy…

My job/career/income source will be..

My relationship status will be….

My situation related to children is….

I am living (both location and style of home)....

I went to school or was trained…

I will practice my religion or spirituality through…

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Who could I be?

List 25 things you would do, be or have if money, time, and talent were not a concern.