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30 Journal Prompts For Self-Discovery

The document provides 30 journal prompts to help with self-discovery. The prompts cover a wide range of topics including earliest memories, family dynamics while growing up, influential childhood figures, navigating life transitions, relationships with authority, emotions, and anxiety. The goal of the prompts is to gain insight by reflecting on formative life experiences and current feelings.

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30 Journal Prompts For Self-Discovery

The document provides 30 journal prompts to help with self-discovery. The prompts cover a wide range of topics including earliest memories, family dynamics while growing up, influential childhood figures, navigating life transitions, relationships with authority, emotions, and anxiety. The goal of the prompts is to gain insight by reflecting on formative life experiences and current feelings.

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30 Journal Prompts for Self-Discovery

1. What are the earliest memories you can recall?

2. What did it mean to grow up as the child of your parents?

3. What did it mean to have siblings? Or what did it mean to be an only-child?

4. What was the atmosphere like in your family of origin?

5. Was there a "black sheep" in your family? If yes, who was it and why?

6. Who were the most influential people in your childhood? What did you learn from
them? Where does what you learned still show in your life?

7. What did your upbringing teach you about "the world out there"?

8. Whose love and approval did you crave more: mum's or dad's?

9. How did you gain safety, love, and significance in your life?

10. What parts of you do you deem the most inferior, shameful, dirty, deficient, ugly?
Tell their story.

11. What words do you most long to hear? And from whom?

12. What is the difference between who you are and who you want to be?

13. What do you daydream about?

14. Do you have recurring nightly dreams?

15. Are you more scared to lose yourself in a relationship or to lose the other person?
16. How did you navigate big transitions in your life? (Entering kindergarten, high
school, moving out from home, college, starting a new job, breakup)

17. What has your relationship to authorities been like in your life?

18. How easy is it for you to relax and let go?

19. What role do rules and order play in your life?

20. Tell the story of the vulnerable or "needy" parts of you.

21. What comes to mind when you think of "autonomy"?

22. When was the first and the last time you felt inferior?

23. How frequently do you compare yourself to others? What are the metrics you put up
for comparison? Success, beauty, intelligence, kindness...?

24. How much are you still competing to be your mum’s or dad’s favorite?

25. How does it make you feel if others are attracted to you?

26. What emotions do you least want to feel?

27. What price do you pay to avoid those uncomfortable emotions?

28. What is the story of anger in your life?

29. What role has shame played in your life?

30. What do you feel most anxious about right now?

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