I work with lots of people who are interested in starting to journal for themselves but are unsure where or how to get started.  I suggest start with exactly where you are in the moment.  Get your tools for journaling together – a fast moving pen, a favourite notebook (line or unlined) and create the time for your journaling date (15 minutes is good – make it amount of time that is doable within your current reality).

A blank page can feel like a daunting space for both new journal writers and seasoned writers alike – it can help to have a prompt, or way into the page.  Here are some easy prompts that are sentence starters (meaning write any of the prompts below at the beginning of your journal entry and dive in from there).  Keep your pen moving, don’t worry about creating high art, just write for yourself.  Tap into your feelings, your ideas, the moment, and breathe.  Breathe and keep your pen moving.  Enjoy the journaling journey, it can be the best ride of your life.

Journal Writing Prompts:

1.  In this moment I notice…

2.  I feel…

3.  The weather outside is making remember a time when…

4.  I wish I would have…

5.  I am so glad…

6.  I can hear the sound of…

Happy journaling!

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