These self-care journal prompts will help you create and cultivate self-care practices and routines, catered to you and your needs, to become the best version of yourself.
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Self-care can be daunting.
It has become a booming market all on its own. It can be difficult to truly understand your relationship with self-care while constantly being exposed to social media and marketing trying to tell you what you “need” and their definition of self-care.
The journal prompts below were created to get back to the roots of self-care and strengthen your relationship with it.
They involve different aspects of self-care that are broken down into more manageable pieces. Plus, they’re not only focused on the “tasks” of self-care, i.e. taking a bath, skincare, etc. Although those are important, they’re only one facet of self-care.
Also included are journal prompts about your thoughts on self-care, struggles or barriers, expressing emotions, play and creativity, mindfulness, boundaries, downtime, doing things for your future self, and even reflection questions to help you decide if any one act of self-care is right for you.
You deserve to prioritize and pamper yourself. Your mental, physical, and emotional health and well-being are important and should be treated as such.
Self-care looks and feels different for everyone, so your approach shouldn’t look like anyone else’s. Gathering information and inspiration is important, but it’s only effective when catered and curated for you and by you. These self-care journal prompts will help you do just that!
Self-care is not selfish, it’s a necessity.
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Self-Care Journal Prompts to Better Your Self-Care Practices
These journal prompts will be broken up into a few different categories to have a more constructive journaling experience. Categories will include General, Mental & Emotional, Physical, Future Self, Reflection After a Self-Care Activity, and Acts of Self-Care Lists.
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General Self-Care Journal Prompts:
- What is my definition of self-care?
- Why is self-care important? Why is it important to me?
- What areas of my life will benefit from regular self-care?
- What are some struggles or barriers I’ve had with self-care?
- What are some possible solutions to those struggles or barriers (within my control)?
- How do I want to feel after practicing self-care?
- What are some best practices I can do to ensure I feel that way? (i.e. put my phone away, have a snack, communicate my needs to my loved ones, prioritize my mental health, etc.)
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Mental & Emotional Self-Care Journal Prompts:
- How do I express and release my emotions? What are some healthy and realistic ways for me to express myself? Where do I feel most safe expressing myself?
- How do I know when it’s time for me to practice self-care? What possible triggers, situations, or sensations should I look out for?
- What healthy and realistic boundaries do I need to implement to prioritize self-care? With myself and others.
- Am I mindful enough in my life? What are some of my favorite acts of mindfulness? How will I incorporate more mindfulness into my life?
- Am I intentional enough in my life? What are some of my favorite acts of intention? How will I incorporate more intention into my life?
- Do I practice mindfulness and intention enough in my self-care? How can I implement more mindfulness and intention into my self-care practice?
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Physical Self-Care Journal Prompts:
- What are self-care activities I don’t like? What are the reasons I don’t enjoy them?
- Am I playing enough in my life? What are some of my favorite forms of play? How will I incorporate more play into my life?
- In what ways am I creative? What connects me to my creative, artistic, or crafty side? How often am I being creative? Am I showing my creative side enough in my life?
- What is my definition of downtime and rest? How do downtime and rest look and feel to me? Am I practicing downtime and rest every day, every week, or every month?
- Does enough of my self-care feel like rest and downtime, or does it feel like another chore?
- How will I incorporate more rest and downtime into my day? Week? Month?
- Does my self-care leave me feeling recharged? Does it genuinely help recharge my mental, emotional, and physical batteries?
- If not, why do I think that is? Do I need to change the activity? Do I need to increase or decrease the amount of time? Am I allowing too many distractions to get in the way? Do I need to prioritize my well-being more? Do I need to communicate my needs to my loved ones more clearly?
- What self-care activities do I actually enjoy doing? What recharges my batteries?
- How will I practice self-care every day? How much time will I commit to self-care each day? What self-care activities can I easily do in a pinch? Where will I practice the act of self-care? How will I keep myself accountable?
- How will I practice more involved self-care once a week? How much time will I commit to it? What are some self-care activities I want to do or try? Where will I practice self-care? How will I keep myself accountable?
- How will I practice more involved self-care once a month? How much time will I commit to it? What are some self-care activities I want to do or try? Where will I practice the act of self-care? How will I keep myself accountable?
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Future Self Self-Care Journal Prompts:
Some self-care is not necessarily fun but is important for my well-being, i.e. hygiene, going to doctors and dentist appointments, doing things my future self will thank me for, cleaning, organizing, exercising, tackling a task I’ve been avoiding, etc. Although they may not be glamorous, they should still be acknowledged and celebrated. Adulting is hard.
- What “things my future self will thank me for” self-care activities do I already do daily? Weekly? Monthly?
- Are there any “things my future self will thank me for” self-care activities I want to implement more into my routine? How will I implement them? How often will I implement them?
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Reflection After a Self-Care Activity
- What act of self-care did I do?
- How long did I do it for?
- How did I feel before?
- How do I feel after?
- What went well?
- Did I do it long enough to be an effective form of self-care?
- Would I want to try this again?
- How could I improve the experience next time if I choose to try it again?
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Acts of Self-Care Lists
Create a list for each prompt below. Now you will have a comprehensive list of self-care ideas handy.
- My Favorite Acts of Self-Care
- Acts of Self-Care I’ve Been Wanting to Try
- Acts of Self-Care My Future Self Will Thank Me For
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There you have it, the best Constructive Self-Care Journal Prompts to Better Your Self-Care Practices.
I hope these self-care journal prompts have helped you dig deep to curate self-care practices and routines that will help you become the best version of yourself. Plus, you deserve to prioritize and pamper yourself!
Which of these self-care journal prompts did you resonate with the most? Were there any aspects of self-care that these journal prompts made you think more deeply about? What areas of self-care do you want to improve in your life? Do you have a clear and constructive plan for implementing self-care into your life and routine? I’d love to hear all about it! Feel free to leave a comment below.
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