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Today I will be sharing 42 journal prompts for self-love.
It’s so easy to be self-critical. Sometimes, you’re not even aware you’re being too hard on yourself. That said, self-love isn’t always easy. This is especially true when you’re going through tough times such as getting laid off work, financial problems, or a break-up.
These unfortunate events will affect your self-esteem. Most self-help books, websites, or social media will tell you it’s important to love yourself first. But how do you start loving yourself?
In this post, we’ll give you 42 journal prompts for self-love – these prompts will get you started on journaling journey towards self-love. We’ll get to those in a minute. But first, you’ll need to understand what self-love means.
Self-love is a hot topic right now, especially on social media. It’s something that can be difficult to understand, and most people only have a vague idea of what it is. A few years ago, I thought self-love was taking bubble baths and treating yourself to shopping, which are great, but they cost money and time.
I now understand that I was totally wrong! Self-love is something that is unique to each person.
The definition of self-love is “regard for one’s own well-being and happiness.”
To me, that means simply being aware of how you’re feeling and that makes you feel better. And no two people are the exact same when it comes to what makes them happy.
I would like to point out that every single person deserves love and has the potential to be more than they know. No matter what your circumstances are, no one can take that away from you or make you think you’re not worth loving.
For those of you in situations that make you feel worthless, please keep reading. Self-love is a tool that can help you change your mindset regardless of what’s happening around you.
Every single day we are bombarded with stress and responsibilities. The opinions of others ring in our ears and we rarely have time to just sit and think.
We look in the mirror and don’t like what we see. This is why self-love is so important. You are the only person that’s with you all day. You know all of your thoughts and feelings.
Since this is the case, you ultimately influence yourself more than anything in your environment. That should tell you how important it is to treat yourself well!
If there was someone in your life that constantly treated you poorly by saying you’re not good enough, good looking enough, or worth fighting for, you would hopefully kick that person out of your life! So, don’t treat yourself that way.
Self-love is essentially making yourself your own biggest fan. This is a role that no one else can fill (although it’s certainly wonderful to have family and friends that support you). The truth is that even if everyone else is rooting for you, it will be incredibly hard to succeed if you don’t believe in yourself.
A self-love journal is a book that you use with the intention of cultivating self-love. It is your personal space to focus your energy and utilise the power of writing and intention to align yourself into a sincere state of self-love.
A self-love journal is a space where you can explore the details of what self-love means to you, discovering what you love about yourself and the best ways to love yourself. Your self-love journal is a sacred space that you have dedicated to the exploration of your relationship with yourself.
The intention of this journal can be to improve your relationship with the most important being in your reality, you! Your self-love journal can be a unique space in which you can express yourself freely.
You can approach journaling in many different ways including writing, adding relevant images or drawings, or even pressing significant objects within your journal. It can really turn out to be a multi-medium sensory experience.
A perfectly simple and powerful starting point and foundation of journaling is writing. Writing is a great way to reflect as well as to process and integrate concepts, thoughts and emotions.
You can use free-flowing writing by simply writing down whatever comes to mind surrounding the topic of self-love for you and you can also utilise journal prompts. The technique of journaling prompts for cultivating self-love is what we shall focus on in detail within this article.
Journal prompts are a great way to focus your attention on the task at hand; in this case, we are seeking to cultivate self-love and so utilising a series of intentionally designed prompts can allow you to delve deep into your inner world and cultivate a steady and growing vibration of genuine self-love.
These self-love prompts include questions and templates to create written affirmations that can be used to cultivate self-love. In order to learn how to use self-love, journal prompts we shall first look into the types of prompts that we can use and then some tips that will assist you in using these prompts to gain the most benefit.
Question prompts serve to inspire you to earnestly and honestly view where you currently are, to identify any blocks that you may need to clear and work through and dissolve what is limiting your ability to love yourself. Question prompts also serve the purpose of identifying your unique needs and wants surrounding self-love. When you learn what you truly desire and how you prefer to receive love then you can have the knowledge that allows you to love yourself in the best way for you.
Template prompts help you to identify and affirm the ways that you love yourself. These prompts ask you to complete the sentence or fill in the blanks as you feel called.
Template prompts essentially help you to create personalised affirmations that celebrate the ways that you love yourself and call in deep levels of self-love in specific ways that you have intended.
Self-love journaling as a committed practice along with the embodiment of the insights you receive from this practice will offer you a wealth of benefits.
The following are some of the benefits of this practice:
For those that have no idea where to start when it comes to finding writing prompts about love, this post will help you. Self-love writing exercises are perfect for those wanting to feel more empowered and looking to love themselves daily.
What I love about ‘you’ prompts is that you get to rediscover yourself and you get to learn to love yourself more. So, if you are looking for creative self-love journaling prompts to grow, look no further than the list below.
The below is an excellent journal to keep track of your progress:
In this section you will find an extensive but not limited list of self-love journal prompts, you can feel free to use these as you please. This practice of taking the time to get to know yourself and intentionally cultivate a love for yourself is an act of self-love.
Answer these self-love journal prompts in as many or as little words as you want to:
Complete or fill out these prompts at your leisure with the knowledge that you are fully deserving and capable of loving yourself deeply:
I hope that you enjoyed these self-love writing prompts and that they help to support you on your self-love journey. You can even use them to start a self-love journal. Let me know what your favourite prompts where in the comments.
I would love to hear your thoughts on what you are doing to change your life in the coming days and years. If you have any questions please reach out to me via adam@adam-lawrence.org. I would love to hear from you!
I really hope you found inspiration in this post.
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