Journaling prompts: re-centering yourself

Each month I host a free 'Journaling for well-being' workshop. It's 30 minutes of support and inspiration for your journaling practice. We focus on two techniques:

1 - Wild writing, a free-style journaling method.

2 - Utilising guided prompts around a particular theme.

The theme for the session was 're-centering yourself'.

January invites a quiet return. After the expectations and momentum of the festive time, re-centering yourself is about coming back to your own inner compass - your values, needs, and truth.

There is so much noise around us. We are inundated daily. Some well intentioned, some absorbed through others around us and through media.

The fractious nature of life can sometimes mean we stray from our inner selves. Without meaning to, we’ve lost our way, our opinions seem muddled and our sense of self is blurred.

I invite you to pause for a moment and come home to yourself at the start of the year.

Tara Brach shares: ‘When we stop fighting ourselves, we come home to a place of peace and freedom.’

For Brach, this homecoming isn’t about fixing or reinventing yourself at the start of a new year. It’s about pausing, noticing, and befriending what’s already here - the body, the breath, the emotions, the longings. From that place of inner refuge, clarity and wise intention naturally arise.

Today’s guided journaling session is allowed us to clear external noise, reconnect with what matters most, and root ourselves in a sense of steadiness and self-trust.

• When was a time you felt connected to your inner, true self? Describe how that felt - your your body, your environment, spiritually, your mind

• Where have you been giving your energy away without realising it?

• If you allowed yourself to listen inwardly to your quiet intuition, what would it be saying to you?

• What helps you come home to yourself?As you begin this year, what intention wants to emerge from my true self?

  
  

Gift yourself that moment of pause, to reconnect with your inner world - the world that will guide you with thought and intention.

If you would like any further reading I recommend 'Radical Self Acceptance' by author, Tara Brach.

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Next month, my free journaling workshop takes place on 2nd February and is focused on the theme of setting clarity and intention. You can register here.

Alternatively, you can download my free journaling toolkit to get your started.