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75 Life Changing Self Care Journal Prompts for a Happier You
You are hustling through life while juggling many balls and wearing many hats—all at once. It just seems impossible to practice self-care, isn’t it? It might be the last thing on your mind. Maybe such a thought might not flicker in your mind—that’s even worse.
Time should be invested in nourishing your mind, body, and soul. It doesn’t have to be hours. Steal a few minutes of the day for yourself. Tweak your routine here and there to make space for self-care.
Before you start practicing self care, you need to have a deep understanding of your current state. These self care journal prompts are designed to help you with this. By completing these, you will know in which areas you are doing excellent, good, bad, or worse. Start your self care journey by picking up the area that requires immediate attention.
75 Positive Self Care Journal Prompts
Physical Self Care
1. How would you rate your physical health on a scale from 1 to 10?
2. What is one simple change you can make in your daily routine to improve your physical health?
3. Is your body giving you signs that it needs to be taken care of? If so, what are the signs?
4. Are you happy about your physical health?
5. What does physical wellness mean to you?
6. How can you move your body more everyday?
7. What is the one physical health goal that you want to achieve?
8. Do you drink at least 8 glasses of water a day? If not, what steps can you take to be properly hydrated?
9. Do you have a consistent sleep schedule?
10. How would you rate your sleep from a scale of 1 to 10? What steps can you take to improve your sleep?
11. Write 3 simple changes that you can make to your diet to make it healthy?
12. What is your favorite physical activity?
13. How has avoiding to do proper physical self care affected you in the past? What did you learn from this experience?
14. What are the habits that’s making you feel physically drained?
15. Do you prefer going to gym or working out in your home?
Emotional Self Care
16. How would you rate your emotional health on a scale from 1 to 10?
17. What kind of emotions have you been experiencing since the past few days? Is it positive or negative?
18. Write in detail the impact of experiencing negative emotions on your physical health that you have observed.
19. Are you satisfied about how you’re handling negative emotions? If no, what steps can you take to process these emotions in a better way?
20. What does emotional balance mean to you?
21. How do you treat the people around you when you’re experiencing negative emotions?
22. What triggers negative emotions in you?
23. What do you usually do to lift your mood?
24. What emotions have you been avoiding? Why? How can you better process them?
25. What 3 simple things that you can to stay emotionally healthy on a daily basis?
26. How does a good cry make you feel?
27. Write about a time when you were proud of how you managed your emotions.
28. Are toxic people affecting your emotional health? If so, what can you do to set up healthy boundaries?
29. Do you find yourself plunge into a rut unable to handle your emotions? If so, what can you do to avoid the same in the future? If you’re in a rut, what can you do to get out?
30. How do you release your pent up emotions?
Mental Self Care
31. How would you rate your mental health on a scale from 1 to 10?
32. What is one simple change you can make in your daily routine to improve your mental health?
33. How is perfectionism affecting your day to day life? What can you do about it?
34. What are the activities that calm your mind?
35. How can you manage overthinking?
36. What does mental clarity mean to you?
37. What can you do now to declutter your mind?
38. Write about the time when you felt mentally strong?
39. What can you do to feel peaceful in life?
40. How to become more present in life?
41. Is social media affecting your mental health? Write 3 simple steps you can take now to reduce social media usage?
42. What is one toxic habit you should quit right now for improved mental health?
43. Write about a book, movie, podcast or anything that has helped to improve your mental health.
44. How can you talk negative self talk?
45. Write 3 powerful affirmations that you love.
Social Self Care
46. How would you rate your social life on a scale from 1 to 10?
47. What changes can you bring to improve your social life and connect with your friends and family?
48. Who is your go to person for support and help? How has this person made a positive impact on your life?
49. How do you stay connected with your friends?
50. What social activities makes you happy?
51. Do you express your love and gratitude to friends and family? How can you improve in this aspect?
52. How do you know that you have a meaningful and long lasting bond with a person?
53. What are the social skills that you are proud of?
54. What are the social skills that you lack? How can you improve in this area?
55. Write in detail what makes a social gathering meaningful to you?
56. How can you strengthen the bond between your friends and family?
57. How can you balance between me time and social time?
58. Write about an experience with a stranger or a random person that had a profound impact on you?
59. Have you ever felt proud of how you behaved in a social setting? If so, write about it in detail.
60. Among your friends and family, who inspires you and why?
Spiritual Self Care
61. What does spirituality mean to you?
62. Are you a spiritual person? Write why or why not?
63. Do you know yourself in and out? What can you do to discover and understand yourself?
64. What are the 3 things that you can do to uncover your life purpose?
65. Write a prayer, mantra or affirmation that brings peace to you.
66. How can you practice forgiveness in your life?
67. Write 5 simple things that you are grateful for.
68. How can you practice gratitude everyday?
69. What does inner peace mean to you?
70. Do you enjoy spending time in nature?
71. How has your gut feeling helped you?
72. Are you living your life aligned to your spiritual beliefs or values? If not, how can you improve?
73. How do you keep going through tough times?
74. How do you stay optimistic and hopeful?
75. Write about a time when you felt connected to a higher energy?
Final Thoughts
You have many roles to play in life and many people to take care of. Make yourself a person in your life that needs your attention and love. Always remember, if you don’t do this you will drop some balls, no matter how hard you try. You will fail to give your 100% to things that you love and the people who are close to you.
I hope that you enjoyed these self care journal prompts. Share these with someone who needs to get started with their self care journey.
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