Journal Prompts For Self Love (18-WEEK CHALLENGE!)

These journal prompts for self-love will inspire you to live your best life, remove toxic influences and wake up every day excited and ready to start your day the way you want.

Now, the thought of journaling doing all these thing for you may sound like a drastic and unrealistic transformation of your life.

Can answering daily prompts do that? Can journaling really transform my life and help you lead your dream life?

Words play a massive part in life; the term ‘actions speak louder than words’ is true but first before doing an action you must believe in what you’re doing.

Even if you’re not telling anyone about it, talking yourself into believing you can do something really shows the power of words.

Journaling works in the exact same way. Whether you’re look for journal prompts for self-reflection, journal prompts for self-discovery or journal prompts for self-love, all these terms fall under the same umbrella – PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH.

Journaling your thoughts and going through a set of questions that guide you to reach your best self will help you figure out answers that you may not have at the moment. It can set you on the path to great change and transformation in life.

This list of 18 journal prompts for self-love will help you build on your personal development skills and push you towards that life that you deserve.

Answer each of these questions weekly; I will list a set of tasks under each journal prompt, throughout the week work on these tasks and at the end of the week, note down how you did and then move onto the next journal prompt.

What do you love about yourself the most?

List down physical and emotional qualities and describe why you love them. How did you get these qualities. Did you get it from learning from something or is something that you picked up as you grew up watching one of your loved ones?

If you’re finding it difficult to find things that you love about yourself, write what you can right now and do the following tasks. At the end of the week, jot down if you found any other qualities you love about yourself in your journal.

Task 1: Get in front of the mirror just before you enter the shower or are about to have a bath. Walk around in front of it and look at yourself, dance, move and ADMIRE. Appreciate what your body does for you and look for the beauty in it.

Task 2: In this group activity, either face-to-face or in a group chat, ask your friends to say what they love about each other. The best way is to do it in a circle so that everyone is covered. This process of looking for others beautiful traits and also listening to your own will open your eyes and help you find beauty in places you may not have before.

What things do you do daily that hurt you?

This could be talking to someone who constantly faults you, a bad habit of watching T.V. too much and falling behind on important work, or as simple as not taking your vitamins daily.

Identify all the small things you do that hurt you in a non-serious way.

TASK 1: Choose the point that you think will be the easiest to overcome and start working on it RIGHT NOW. Once you have stopped doing this, keep on going from easiest to hardest.

What areas of your life make you feel anxious/ uncomfortable/ down?

We’re now going to tackle the more serious areas of your life.

Instead of focussing on small things that hurt you on a daily basis now take a step back and look at your life at a birds-eye view. What parts of your life bring you unease? What could be improved?

TASK 1: Type ‘life wheel’ into google and choose one of the images. Write a score out of 10 on how good you think you’re doing in these areas of your life.

TASK 2: Find the 3 areas that you scored lowest on and break then down into actionable steps you can take so that you can start improving those areas of life.

What is your passion?

Forget about what is ‘right’ and what is ‘wrong.’ As long as it is morally correct and will do something good for you, stretch your imagination. What gives you true, genuine happiness? What lights fires in your mind when you think about it? What makes you want to jump up and begin?

When writing down this passion or passions, describe how you think it will make you feel, what you would do while you’re working on it, and how your daily life will become.

TASK 1: Break this passion down into steps you can take to get there.

Do you spend enough alone time?

Alone time or ‘Me’ time is essential for everyone, even IF you’re the type of person that likes to always be surrounded by people. It helps you develop independence, self-confidence and motivation.

What do you do when you spend time by yourself? Could you be a bit more productive? Could you engage in activities that will bring more to your life?

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TASK 1: Set aside at least an hour of ‘Me’ time this week (if you can spare more time, even better) and do something that you’ve really wanted to do.

TASK 2: Alternatively, in that hour do something productive that you think will enrich you in that time. This doesn’t mean you have to be cleaning the house or catching up on a project, it could be something like brushing up on your painting skills or starting a herb garden.

If you were forced to cut one bad thing out of your life right now, how would you feel after?

Don’t think about how to cut that thing out right now, think about how you would feel after it is gone.

Let’s take for example a friend who likes to give you constructive criticism… all the time, and if its not all the time it feels like that because they never congratulate you on your achievements.

In this case, think about how it feels every time he/she does that and how it would feel if they would congratulate you.

TASK 1: After you have identified how you would feel in this situation, find a way to deal with it with first, a ‘soft’ approach and then a ‘hard’ approach. A ‘soft’ approach would be something that will not drastically change your life (in this case, having a conversation with your unsupportive friend) and the ‘hard’ approach would have a more impactful effect (like cutting them off completely).

If its something that’s causing you a lot of issues and needs to urgently go, go straight in with the ‘hard’ approach.

How would your life look like if you lived it exactly the way you wanted?

Consider all aspects of your life, from what you want to look/dress like to how you want your diet to be like. Be specific and describe your life almost as if you’re doing creative writing.

TASK 1: Learn the art of romanticizing your life by learning to enjoy the simplest things. The next time you make tea, don’t just mindlessly make it. Focus on the process of pouring the water, brewing the tea etc. It might sound really excessive but this task will also make you more mindful in life and help you do things with intention.

TASK 2: Change this week’s exercise into a series of self love letter prompts. Focus on one aspect of your life at a time and write a letter to your future self of how things are now and how you hope things to be.

What gifts do you like to receive that make you feel happy?

Looking at the material objects that you like to receive think about why you like them. If you like perfumes as a gift, it means that you enjoy smelling good. So, you know the next time you do some form of self-care to incorporate nice scents into it.

You can do this process with the immaterial gifts you receive too (such as a loved one helping you out, or receiving a hug from someone).

TASK 1: Buy yourself a gift this week and don’t feel guilty about it at all.

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Does your self care routine enrich your life?

Is your self care routine based off of what other people think self care should entail or do you actually really enjoy it? This question is a journal prompt for self love as well as a journal prompt for self awareness as it helps you figure out what YOU personally like.

Assess your self care routine under the three following guidelines:

a) Does it help you physically or mentally?

b) Do you enjoy doing it?

c) Is it working?

TASK 1: If you haven’t changed your self care routine already and are okay with the way it is, this week try something new and see how you like it.

What are some of your proudest achievements?

Write down as many as you can think of. Did those achievements relate to something you’re really passionate about? Maybe you could work in that field again to gain more achievements.

TASK 1: This week just think about the way you feel when you have an achievement or when you have accomplished something. Set a small goal this week so you can feel that sense of pride and satisfaction again.

List down the things that you’ve wanted to do for a while but haven’t done.

With this journal prompt, just make the list and leave it at that. This will act as a mini bucket list.

TASK 1: Choose the least time-consuming activity and book it or do it this week. NO exceptions – make time for it.

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Do you have people in your life that put you down?

Be really honest with yourself and note down the people who make you feel down even if it is in the smallest way.

How do you build confidence in your journal? And how does journaling help with self love? It’s because it gives you a safe space to figure out sensitive issues such as this.

You can first have a mini conversation with yourself in your journal which will in turn make you more confident when dealing with your issues directly.

TASK 1: Choose the person/ some people who you feel you are ready to have a conversation with to deal with your issue. Even if you think you’re not ready as long as you feel confident with what you’re going to say, go for it.

Answer this: I feel pressured to…

Next to the list of all the things that you feel pressured to do or achieve write down ‘but’ and then find a solution for it.

For example:

I feel pressured to always be perfect BUT perfectionism will never bring me happiness and I choose to be content with the way I am now.

Do you feel comfortable in your skin when you leave the house?

Journal prompts for self-love can help your physical issues as well as mental issues. You can use your journal to motivate yourself to work on your physical health. But before that, you can journal to help you start feeling comfortable in your skin.

Answer the question above along with the following: do you notice your body language changing when you’re outside? Do you tend to cover yourself a lot or do you stand with your arms to your sides? Does any type of clothing make you feel more comfortable?

TASK 1: This week try and stay aware of your body language whenever you are out. Are you slouched and do you tend to look at the ground? Do you cross your hands in front of yourself? Force yourself to keep your hands to your sides, your shoulders straight and maintain eye contact with others. These simple actions boosts self-confidence like crazy!

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Describe your ideal morning

Again, answer this journal prompt like a creative writing piece. Doing this will help you begin to romanticize your life and appreciate seemingly mundane activities in life like making a cup of tea.

These journal prompts for self love should encourage you to make a change in life by helping you see what life could be like if you lived it the way you wanted. Write down what you need to then put your words into action.

Another great way to increase feelings of self love is to incorporate positive affirmations into your life. Create your own unique set of positive affirmations here!

TASK 1: Choose a day that you have time and create this ideal morning to the best of your abilities. Let yourself relax and enjoy the time.

Are you content with your self growth?

Do you respect yourself? Do you have self-esteem issues? Do you see your life moving in an upward direction?

In order to have constant self improvement, your journal entries need to do the easy work as well as the hard work. It’s nice and easy to write about your ideal morning but what about doing a deep dive in your life? How are things going, really? Career wise, socially, mentally etc.

TASK 1: Think about your life purpose and from a scale of 1 to 10 note down how close you are to reaching that purpose right now. If you are living your life purpose already, are there any passions that you wanted to work on that you haven’t started?

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For every year of your life, list down one thing that helped you grow

This is a really eye-opening journal prompt for self love and self reflection. It will allow you to see your achievements from every year and will motivate and uplift you when you see constant growth.

TASK 1: Make that list!

How do you want your future to look like?

Now that you have looked through your past and have taken what you can from it, what do you expect from the future? How do you want to grow and what do you want to achieve?

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TASK 1: After you have written your journal entry, choose the thing that you want to achieve the most in the future and create a plan now.

How do you start a self love journey? For some it can be indulging oneself in physical self care and for others it can be a gradual process of dealing with issues related to mental health.

Either way, your journal should be used as your safe place where you can talk through your thoughts. These personal development journal prompts for self love aim to do just that in a way that will help you work on your self love but also help your appreciate the beauty of your life as it is.

The final thing I would suggest is after completing this ’18-week journal prompts for self love’ challenge is to go back to the first question and answer that again. Has anything changed about the way you feel about yourself?

Let me know which journal prompt you like the most in the comments below!

Journal Prompts For Self Love (18-WEEK CHALLENGE!)