Why Write in a Journal?

Journaling can be a great source of stress relief and personal expression of sadness, anxiety or uncertainty. Journal writing is also a very unique form of therapy—writing can help you connect with feelings, emotions, and beliefs that you may otherwise ignore. Spending time with a journal is also a deeply valuable tool for self-discovery, allowing you to look back later at a specific moment in time objectively. Writing can be an important reminder to yourself to not forget how you felt in that particular moment and can be used as a learning tool for future experiences.

Daily journal writing can also be a cathartic way to release your tension and wind down from a difficult day. This intimate self-care ritual can be a positive boost for your mental health. Finish your day with a gratitude journal, but writing down three things that you are thankful for each day. This way, you leave the day behind you (even a bad one!) on a positive note.

This month, we’re challenging you to grab a notebook and use one of these quick journal prompts, each day, to create some calm in your life and allow yourself to look deeper into your soul. The purpose of these journal writing examples are to make you feel vulnerable and create a conversation with yourself. Each question is meant to challenge you and encourage you to dig deeper. Keep going. Take your time with each journal prompt.

30 Journal Prompts to Help You Dig Deeper

What are your best qualities?

If you could give advice to your younger self what would it be?

What is your ideal way to spend a Sunday?

What do you know today that you didn't know 5 years ago?

Where do you see yourself in one year?

What are 3 things that bring you joy right now? Why?

What are you most grateful for?

Describe your favorite childhood activity to an alien and why it brings you such joy

How would you describe yourself in 2 words? Why did you choose those?

What is something that you love that you haven't done in a while? What is keeping you from that?

Did something/someone let you down this week? How did you resolve the situation?

What Does happiness mean to you?

What is going well in your life right now?

What scares you about the future?

Is there something that you're still holding onto from the past?

Write a letter to your future self?

Write a letter to yourself as a child?

What does self-care look like to you?

Do you like the person you are today?

What is your biggest strength?

What is your biggest weakness?

What is your biggest regret?

What would you say is your biggest accomplishment?

What qualities in myself do I value most

If there was a solution to your anxiety, what would it look like?

When was the last time you did something for the first time? What was it?

What sets your soul on fire?

Are you pushing yourself to your furthest potential? Why or why not?

Do you feel loved?

Are you happy with your life right now?