#mental health journal prompts

[jenuinejournal]

♡︎Day 5/28-Day Journal Entry Challenge♡︎

Hello, hello!

We are starting February’s 28-Day Journal Entry Challenge with Day 5 asking: “Describe what solitude is to you.”

**On our social media pages, we are posting the day's prompt to remind everyone which day we’re on 😄 To download the 28-Day Journal Entry Challenge Calendar, you can subscribe to our Weekly Journal Prompt Newsletter. In the Welcome Message, you’ll have access to the file!**

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Day 5 asks us to write about: “Describe what solitude is to you.”

This past week, we have journaled about loneliness, aloneness, and solitude. Today, we are just journaling about solitude and being alone.

Referring back to the other journal entries that asked you what you thought about loneliness and solitude, we will use our existing ideas to break down further and introduce solitude to us.

Do you remember a time when you gave up? You finally accepted something for what it is, despite your hopes for the latter. How did it feel to accept something in its authenticity?

Was there ever a time you realized something so small actually had a significant impact on you and your current mindset? How was that shift?

Have you ever sat with yourself and thought, “I am not perfect”? Did you ever just sit with all your flaws, imperfections, things you wish to change, and your mean thoughts? How was that moment?

Authenticity and Realization are two of the few components that make up our awareness and perception of the world.

If you can accept and acknowledge it, you can be content with your being.

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Thank you for journaling with us & joining this #JournalChallenge and our #journalcommunity 🤗

If you’d like to download the complete 28-Day Journal Entry Challenge, you can do so by subscribing to our Weekly Journal Prompt Newsletter!

Subscribe here

In the Welcome Message, you’ll gain access to the PDF file & also have access to weekly journal prompts delivered to your email 🥰

Thank you again for joining, sharing, participating, and being part of the journaling club & our challenge!

You are what makes the club a club🤍

[ispiritualist]

28 mental health journal prompts

28 mental health journal prompts 📝

[messyoungie]

₊❏❜ ⋮ journaling prompts ─ ✧₊∘

✧ here’s a list of some of my favorite journal prompts that I hope will inspire you to pick up a notebook and write :)

◦when do you feel most like yourself

◦is there anything you’re not being honest about with yourself

◦what are you most afraid of others finding out about you

◦what boundaries do you need to set with yourself

◦when are you most “present” or “in the moment”

◦how often do you actually show up for yourself

◦what’s your focus been on lately

◦what past version of you do you like the most

◦what past version of you do you dislike the most

◦what is it that makes you cling to the things that drain you

◦think of the people you’re closest to in life and what you’re most scared to tell them

◦where are you living 90% of the time— in the past, present, future? in the real world or in the digital world?

◦when do you feel like you need to punish yourself

◦in what ways do you put off having your desires/stand in your own way

[audreys-diaryy]

[hersurvival]

they told me to eat a lemon peel and wait 45 minutes, for euphoria, and what did i have to lose by biting through that bitter rind other than a lingering acrid taste on the back of my tongue, like bile in the back of my throat. low risk for the reward of activating the pineal gland, of being washed over by euphoria, opening that elusive third eye of perception.

but nothing happened.

now i am high as hell in a bed not mine, alone, after my baby brother's wedding.

still waiting for the valve to open, for the flow of that ancient greek pneuma, that breath, to tap that unassuming pinecone of an organ of excess and delirium open, calling to the goddess of strife and discord through the taste of zest, to channel this incessant rage, turn chaos into coping.

the stars are so far away, unable to be caressed as they're dying, already dead, light taking ages to fade, to blink out of existence. so far away from here, in a black sea of nothing, abysmal and freezing. poke holes in me, pinpricks, i wonder if i too can shine from within, if my void holds any light that won't be noticed when it fades.

@nosebleedclub June 29th - Lemon Rind

[theereina]

Thursday, July 27

[girlmagicfr]

Weekly Journal Prompts

[fibromyalgicaf]

Journal prompts for people living with chronic illness(es)

What brings me joy and how can I incorporate more of it into my life?

One thing I should completely remove from my life is...

5 emotions I feel about my illness/disability

What could I ask for more help with?

5 things I CAN do

If I could go back to when I first got unwell/diagnosed, what advice would I give myself?

3 things that drain my energy, and how to avoid them in the future

5 things I'm proud of myself for

The moment a stranger changed my life

What I can let go of this week that no longer serves me

A societal expectation that I'm rejecting is...

Small things that make me happy

What I've achieved since my diagnosis that I didn't think I would

My ideal safe space would look like...

Negative beliefs about myself that I need to let go (and where those beliefs came from)

Small things in the world that are beautiful

A letter to my illness/disability

If I could jump through a portal into a fictional universe, I'd go to...

Things I'm learning to accept

My values are... / What qualities do I think are important and make for the best people?

Self-care practices that make me feel better, even on difficult days

A kind thing I can say to myself when I’m feeling low is...

If my pet could give me life advice, they would say...

Please add yours below or send me a message and I'll add it ✌️

[choicesfandomappreciation]

Whether you're new to journaling or a seasoned writer, these prompts are designed to help you explore your thoughts and feelings, find moments of gratitude, and embrace the importance of self-care.

[jenuinejournal]

♡︎Day 4/28-Day Journal Entry Challenge♡︎

Hello, hello!

We are starting February’s 28-Day Journal Entry Challenge with Day 4 asking: “Describe a time you felt lonely and a time you felt at peace with yourself.”

**On our social media pages, we are posting the prompt of the day to remind everyone which day we’re on 😄 To download the 28-Day Journal Entry Challenge Calendar, you can subscribe to our Weekly Journal Prompt Newsletter. In the Welcome Message, you’ll have access to the file!**

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Day 4 asks us to write about: “Describe a time you felt lonely and a time you felt at peace with yourself.”

Do you remember a time you felt completely comfortable with your own space and company? A time where you didn’t mind the silence or the noise as long as it was your own?

Or how about a time when you were uncomfortable or felt unsafe alone? Maybe you had just lost yourself and you felt numbly.

Today we are journaling about those moments, even if we aren’t there anymore, or if we are currently there. The goal of the prompt is to help bring awareness to your current state.

For each moment, in solitude and loneliness, we will journal the same 5 sub-sections:

1. When was this moment (a specific season, a day, a year, an age, etc)?

2. Where was I in life at this time (in school, graduating, married, just had first kid, major life event, etc)?

3. When did I realize I was in this state (loneliness/solitude)?

4. What was/is it like here (describe how solitude/loneliness was once you realized you were in it)?

5. How do I view that moment now?

What these sub-sections do is help further break down the original question.

Journal these sub-sections and the original question and don’t forget to be honest with yourself and your feelings afterwards.♡

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Thank you for journaling with us & joining this #JournalChallenge and our #journalcommunity 🤗

If you’d like to download the full 28-Day Journal Entry Challenge, you can do so by subscribing to our Weekly Journal Prompt Newsletter!

Subscribe here

In the Welcome Message, you’ll gain access to the PDF file & also, have access to weekly journal prompts delivered to your email 🥰

Thank you again for joining, sharing, participating, and being part of the journaling club & our challenge!

You are what makes the club, a club🤍

[mothofmyth]

Steve Harrington takes up journaling.

Look, he's a very traumatised teenager in the 80s. He's got barely any friends, essentially no family worth a damn, and he's definitely not getting a therapist any time soon.

He remembered asking Nancy once, while they were still dating, why girls keep diaries. Why they write shit in them if they don't want anybody to read it.

She told him she likes it because it's like having a friend who can't give you advice you don't want, who won't give you their opinion or judgement on things they don't know enough about.

A diary can't betray your trust the way a human can, so long as you hide it well enough, and if you write something in it that you're not allowed to talk about, you can always tear out the page and throw it in a fire. It's how she compartmentalises. It's a release.

Steve honestly thought it was dumb at first. Leaving all of your secrets conveniently together in one place. If you invited friends over or threw a party and someone found it you'd be socially ruined before you even knew it was gone.

Still, after everything goes down... Steve has no friends his own age, he's sort of responsible for a bunch of traumatised kids, he's for all intents and purposes alone. He feels like he's going to pop if he doesn't tell someone something.

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He's throwing another tantrum, as his mom would call it. Tearing up and throwing anything he can find, uncaring of the mess he'll have to clean up later. He just can't cope, and it's not like anybody's stopping him.

He turns his attention to a bookshelf, starts tearing pages out of paperbacks and launching them across the room. He picks up an old notebook, probably a spare he got for school and never got round to using.

It makes him pause, remembering an old, old conversation with somebody he used to love.

He figures, what harm could it do to try? It's not like destroying the house for the third time this week is helping much, nor did climbing into his dad's liquor cabinet and falling to the bottom of a bottle of barrel-aged whiskey.

He grabs a cracked biro off the floor, ignoring the way the plastic crunches a little in his too-firm grip.

He opens the book to the first page and begins to write.

He doesn't really know what he's doing, so he just starts putting his stream of consciousness onto the page. At first it's barely coherent scribblings, but once he starts, he finds there's things he wants to say, things he's been desperate to tell someone just to get them out of his head. He couldn't tell the kids, couldn't tell Nancy or his parents, definitely couldn't tell Tommy and Carol, so he tells the book, instead.

He pours out his darkest thoughts, writes things he would never say out loud, about how sometimes he wishes the demogorgon had taken him out, wishes Billy had killed him, how maybe the kids would be better off that way.

He writes about how exhausted he is, how much he hates his friends and the government and everybody who dragged him to this point and then left him hanging. Left him to drown.

Like Barb drowned. When he killed her. When stupid Nancy invited her stupid friend to his stupid party because stupid Tommy and stupid Carol wanted to play in his stupid pool at his stupid house because his stupid parents were on a stupid business trip.

He presses too hard and the paper tears under his pen. He realises he's crying when he tries to put the paper back together and the ink smudges on his fingers.

He writes and writes until he feels empty inside, then he puts it in a shoebox and stuffs it back under his bed, along with all of those feelings and fears and traumas. With his absent parents and miserable little life and everything that he can never show to the rest of the world.

He starts cleaning up in a haze, forgetting all about his diary for the time being. He's got responsibilities, after all. Who else is gonna step up, if not him?

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End for now, but this could go a number of ways feel free to add on. Maybe someone finds the journal. Maybe they get upset by what they see. Maybe they're insulted, or scared, or worried and horrified about Steve's inner monologue.

Maybe some kind of magic happens and the book is actually connected to someone else in some way, and they're seeing everything he's writing and start writing back soulmates-style.

Maybe the book is someone, and they materialise from it having been created by Steve's thoughts or just summoned to 'fix' him.

Idk, as I said there's a lot of directions this could take.

[dissociativecollective]

I'm trying to see this for what it is: a new chance, an opening, a beginning. A clean slate. A way of the universe undoubtedly showing me that this phase is over and I'm ready [or not] to dive into the next. But all I can see is defeat. All I can see is the fear of not deserving to end up where I want to be, where I should be, where I feel I have to be. My thoughts are overwhelming. My doubts are endless. I'm a well that's filled to the brim with poisoned water. I'm a finished painting, a portrait painted in the most vibrant colors. But the knife is tightly grasped in my hand and I want to scratch off layer after layer and start again, just to figure out who I am and do something different. Something new. It's all old news and repetitions of past mistakes and regrets and I don't know how to break free from this trap. It comes down to this: I'm scared senseless. This fear has become part of me and I don't know how to look at the future without feeling overwhelmed by it. I want to write about hope next, but I don't really feel it right now. But I think I'll feel it one day. I know I will. I must.

[whossiren]

Day 1: What would you do if money wasn't an issue?

If money was never an issue I'd buy a property on beautiful secluded lands and build the self sustainable homestead of my dreams. With a warm barn for my goats and sheep, a coops for my ducks and quails, a patio for my cats and a greenhouse for my herbs.

I would spend my days maintaining my lifestyle. Spinning wool into yarn. Cutting wood to heat a fire and repair my buildings. Churning milk into butter. Planting food to harvest and can. Wiring off the grid to make myself independent.

Having a deeper understanding and respect for what it takes to have the food I put on my plate.

Having a deeper connection with how much I put into the world because I can only receive what I put in.

If money wasn't an issue I'd simply move away.

Away from the smog and the pressure for a career. Away from the bread that has 28 ingredients. Away from the empty parking lots and the tall buildings that surround them.

If I had the money to buy anything I'd buy my own freedom with solitude and seclusion.

[thefroggiesden]

Journal Prompts for Every Day of the Week Based on Their Magical Associations

As a witch, I like to use different days of the week to time my magic and other spiritual activities. Journaling is one of the most spiritual things I do, so I figured I would come up with journal prompts based on each day’s magical associations! These are just the most common associations in modern witchcraft and paganism in the western world, but if your practice is different, don’t be afraid to switch things around or change them however you want.

Sunday

The day of the sun. Sunday is associated with creativity, strength, power, growth, and music.

What is a creative project you’re working on right now? Is it going well, or not so well? How is it making you feel? Do you want to continue on the same path with it, or change course?

Monday

The day of the moon. Monday is associated with dreams, insight, and other spiritual things.

Have you had any strange or repeating dreams lately? What are some themes or images that common in them?

Tuesday

The day of mars. Tuesday is associated with success, conflict/war, overcoming problems, and energy.

What is a problem or conflict you’re having right now? Try to look at it from an outside perspective. What advice would you give to a friend that was in the same situation?

Wednesday

The day of mercury, Wednesday is associated with travel, communication, and business/commerce.

What is a place you’ve always wanted to go to? Why is that place important to you?

Thursday

The day of Jupiter. Thursday is associated with wealth, luck, abundance, and leadership,

What do you have an abundance of? Try to list something physical, emotional, and spiritual. How do you feel about having these things?

Friday

The day of Venus. Friday is associated with love, sex, fertility, beauty, and relationships.

What makes you feel beautiful? What’s something small you can do everyday to make yourself feel confident and pretty/handsome?

Saturday

The day of Saturn. Saturday is associated with death, endings, protection, and the law.

Write about a death or ending that’s occurred in your life? How did it impact you? How did it change other areas of your life?

[arikasugar]

Do you have any advice about having anxiety and the need to be liked?

hey there, anon. I sure do.

I had pretty severe anxiety for most of my life that stemmed from this overwhelming need and desire to please others and keep them around. it kept me from setting healthy boundaries and eventually gave me an identity complex because I didn’t feel like I could be myself and have people like me at the same time. I would often settle for less than what I was worth as a result, because I didn’t want to be the cause of any confrontation or negative reaction from others. this took me a long time to work through in therapy and through self help prompts. let me share some with you.

start by unpacking and examining your anxiety and desperation to be liked. where did it come from? when was the first time you felt that way? did you experience any trauma that could have lead to feeling this way? what beliefs make up your anxiety? why do you have those beliefs? write it all down. once you boil it down to “I feel anxiety about (x) because (y) happened to me, and the trauma / feelings from this experience changed my beliefs about (z)” we can move onto the next step.

ask yourself how you would feel if the negative experiences that contributed to your anxiety and people pleasing played out differently. reimagine those memories in a way that worked in your favor, in a way that didn’t cause feelings of sadness or resentment or fear. maybe this is imagining a healthier relationship with your parents than what you really had, or imagining a reality in which you did not end up dating That Person Who Traumatized You. understand that had those things gone differently, you would have completely different beliefs about your self worth and relationships today.

you likely wouldn’t be full of fear of dread and obligation. but how would someone without the baggage of all those negative experiences feel? what would someone who came from an emotionally supportive and healthy background think about themselves? maybe they would have higher confidence, or a sense of intrinsic value for who they are and what they can offer others. maybe the courage to set boundaries and be honest, even at the expense of being disliked. now take a moment to digest the fact that this is the truest version of yourself. the one who would have thrived with the right love and support and environment is who you are at your core once you throw out all the bullshit.

now, emulate that. remind yourself of this often. remember who you’d be if not for the people and situations that instilled those feelings of fear and inadequacy into you. tell yourself that those negative beliefs you have about yourself are untrue any time they pop up. take the changes one day at a time. practice exposure therapy. take baby steps outside your comfort zone whenever you can. surround yourself with people who value you. read daily affirmations. little by little, start doing things your true, highest self would do. this is by no means an overnight fix, but eventually, you’ll see your own worth, grow your self esteem, and overcome your anxiety.

good luck, sugar

xoxo

[theereina]