Why Writing Prompts
Writing is an outlet for me. You too?
Some people journal privately, some people journal on a blog for everyone to read (me).
Over the course of my blog I have found myself at times wanting badly to write, feeling the words brimming under the surface, but unable to find the motivational spark to begin.
I’ve never used a guided journal before, instead when I found myself unfocused in my private journal I created my own journaling prompts. Then I thought, maybe I could use the same concept for writing here and I did a 14 day writing challenge of self-reflection with predetermined prompts to write from.
It helped me a lot. As I read back over those two weeks of posts I see such diversity in topic, yet continuity of context as I told my story through the motivation of the different prompts.
That challenge ended last week and over the last few days I have battled some writer’s block. Time for another list of prompts.
7 Writing Prompts for Processing Trauma
- Write about a negative cognition you hold that you know is not true, and talk about why it isn’t.
- Write about your safe space (e.g. how you created it, what it means to you, what it represents).
- List 5 positive impacts the pandemic has had on your life or your community
- Write about your take on forgiveness
- Write a letter to yourself (older, younger, or current – you decide)
- What does happiness mean to you?
- Write about a trauma response you are working on and the cost vs. benefit of it on your life.
The 1-Week Challenge
I know I am not the only one who benefits from writing prompts.
Now that you have your prompts (and I have mine) – we’ve got seven days of content just waiting to spill out of us whether to a personal blog, or private journal.
I hope these prompts help you dive deep and learn a few things about yourself.
As you write, if you share it on your site, I would love to see you tag it back to this post so that we can all share and heal together.
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