Guiding Journalling Prompts

Guiding journaling prompts are carefully crafted questions or statements designed to inspire reflection, uncover thoughts and emotions, and promote self-awareness. These prompts help provide structure to your journaling practice, making it easier to explore your inner world, process experiences, and gain clarity on challenges and goals.

• Encourages Emotional Expression

• Enhances Self-Awareness

• Provides Clarity

• Supports Mental Health

• Boosts Creativity and Problem-Solving

Career Clarity & Growth:

1. What does professional success mean to me?

2.⁠ ⁠Are there opportunities for me to take on stretch projects at work? If so, which ones?

3.⁠ ⁠What are my natural gifts and talents?

4.⁠ ⁠Do I constantly feel that my work is draining my energy? If so, why?

5.⁠ ⁠If I could design my ideal workday, what would it look like?

6.⁠ ⁠What did I learn this month at work?

7.⁠ ⁠What do you have career FOMO about?

8.⁠ ⁠What do I want permission to become? I want permission to …

9.⁠ ⁠Imagine yourself aged 95. You are sitting in your comfiest chair, by a sunny window, thinking back over a long life and a successful and varied work-life. What is the best advice 95-year-old you could give to the you that you are now, regarding changing career …

10.⁠ ⁠Go back in your mind to being 10 years old. Recall the things you loved to do, and the dreams you had for your life. 10 year old you has some important things to tell you about how you’re living your life now. They are …

Mother Wounds

Think of a time that you needed motherly love

1.⁠ ⁠What were you experiencing?

2.⁠ ⁠How old were you?

3.⁠ ⁠What did you need in that moment?

4.⁠ ⁠How can you give yourself that now?

5.⁠ ⁠What are you angry at your mother for?

6.⁠ ⁠If you can say anything to her, what would it be?

7.⁠ ⁠Do you feel you have understanding or closure?

8.⁠ ⁠How can you begin to find that understanding or closure in a way that does not rely on your mother to fulfill that need?

Heart Opening

1. What is the energy of love like for me?

⁠2. How do I show myself kindness and compassion?

3.⁠ ⁠When have I experienced feelings of deep connection with another person?

4.⁠ ⁠What do I need in order to feel safe and supported within my relationships?

5.⁠ ⁠What emotions am I holding onto from past negative experiences that are blocking me from being fully present at the moment?

6.⁠ ⁠How can I learn to trust and forgive myself for mistakes made in the past?

7.⁠ ⁠What does it mean for me to put my own feelings and needs first?

8.⁠ ⁠What can I do to open my heart up to love more fully?

9.⁠ ⁠How can I tell when it’s time to let go of a relationship that is no longer serving me?

Discovering Self

1. ⁠⁠Write three things you love about your personality.

2.⁠ ⁠⁠What’s standing in the way of your feeling happier, and what can you do to change that?

3. If money wasn’t an issue, how would you live the rest of your life

4. ⁠⁠When do you feel the most confident in yourself?

5. Write yourself a love letter

6. ⁠⁠Where in your life do you need to slow down?

7. My best personality trait is…and why?

8. What are some positive ways you’ve changed over the last five years?

9.⁠ ⁠⁠What makes you feel loved?

10.⁠ ⁠⁠Write out what your “dream life” looks like