2937+ Category: Journal Writing Prompts
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Time Capsule Conversation
Write a letter addressing your anxiety. Seal it, date it for a year ahead, and reply to future yourself.
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Anxiety Evaporation
Express your anxieties as water droplets on a hot pan and write about them evaporating.
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Silver Linings
List down five anxious situations you have faced and uncover the positive outcomes that followed.
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Worry Exorcism
Write about your worries as if they were physical entities, and describe how you’d make them leave.
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Constructive Conversations
Imagine you could have a conversation with your anxiety. What would you ask it? Write out this conversation.
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Defining Moments
Write about a single incident from your past that you think may have led to the development of your anxiety.
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Anxiety’s Roots
List out any events, current circumstances, or people that trigger your anxiety most often.
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Safe Space Visualization
Create a detailed written visualization of your ‘Safe Space’. How does it look, smell, feel? How do you feel when you’re there, and how does it help you cope with anxieties?
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Letter to Anxiety
Compose a letter to your Anxiety as if it were a person. Speaking directly to your Anxiety, explain how it makes you feel, and what you’d like to change.
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Anxiety Scale
Write about a recent anxiety on a scale of 1-10. Explain why you chose this number and how it affected your day.
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Mapping Anxiety
Draw a map of your anxiety, sketching out the different regions each representing a particular anxiety or fear. Write about the geography of your personal “Anxiety Land”.
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Revisiting Anxiety Triggers
Write about a particular event that triggered your anxiety. Elaborate on all the details and emotions that emerged from this event.
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Anxiety vs Serenity
Draw a parallel between a situation that causes anxiety and one that brings peace.
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Embracing Imperfection
Narrate an episode where you might have made a mistake and how you dealt with it.
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Unraveling the Threads
Write about a situation which causes anxiety and try to identify the root causes.
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Personal Growth through Anxiety
Write about a time when anxiety actually led to personal development.
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Gratitude Against Anxiety
List five things you are grateful for today and detail why they matter to you.
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Anxiety Exits
Write about three situations when you were anxious but successfully managed to calm yourself down.
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Future Forecasting
Imagine an upcoming event in your life and write about any possible scenarios that make you feel anxious.
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The Letter of Comfort
Write a letter to yourself from a place of understanding and compassion to read during an anxiety attack.
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Anxiety vs Reality
Write about a situation where your anxiety made you view a situation differently than it truly was.
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Daily Stress Diary
Record every moment or event that made you feel stressed or anxious during the day and your reactions to them.
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Mapping The Anxiety Territory
Write about what anxiety feels like for you, tracing its path through your body and emotions.