One of my favorite daily practices I’ve integrated into my life is journaling, and some of the inner work that has been the most impactful over the past year has been inner child work.
Now what is the inner child? Well, according to Wikipedia: “the inner child is an individual’s childlike aspect. It includes what a person learned as a child, before puberty. The inner child is often conceived as a semi-independent subpersonality subordinate to the waking conscious mind.”
Journaling is not only good for documenting daily life, but also to reflect on past life events, plan for the future, work your way through any ruts you may have and understand yourself. It can be difficult to get into journaling and may seem daunting when you have no idea what to write about or where to start. This is where journal prompts come in handy. So, below is a list I’ve compiled of 20 journal prompts for inner child work I hope you find helpful:
- If no one was looking, would your priorities be different?
- How can you change your priorities to align more with your higher self and please your inner child?
- Without pressure or stress, what would your passions be right now?
- When did you feel put down as a child? Did this affect you negatively and does it relate to any insecurities you have today or have dealt with in the past?
- Write a letter to the person that hurt your inner child and say what you’d like now, envelope it, then burn it or throw it away.
- How did you express yourself creatively as a child and how do you express yourself creatively today?
- What would you like to do creatively today?
- If you could live your dream day, how would it look?
- What are some things you could do to work towards living your dream day?
- How can you nurture and comfort yourself in a healthy and regular way?
- Make a list of things worth slowing down for.
- Create a list of 19 things you like about yourself.
- What things are you good at?
- What are you afraid to admit to wanting to know, yearning to explore or desperate to understand?
- What things do you need help with and who can you ask for help?
- What is something you’re too scared to admit you dream about?
- If nobody would judge you, what would you quit?
- What’s something you want to do simply for the purpose of doing it?
- What are things you’re afraid to ask yourself?
- Have a 15-minute free-write of what you would do if you had all the resources in the world.
Amber Mirrelle 