370+ ‘Healing’ Writing Prompts
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Unsaid Goodbye
Write a heartfelt goodbye letter to someone you never had the chance to say farewell to.
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Unseen Motivations
In your story, explore a villain who’s motivated to be evil due to past traumas or influences.
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Lesions of Love
Write a short story about a person dealing with heartbreak and turning it into their strength.
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Healer of Shadows
Imagine a society where shadows are living entities and only a chosen few can heal wounded or sick shadows.
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Bridges of Trust
Write a story about two people who had a turbulent past but worked to mend their relationship in their later years.
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Holiday Healing
Describe a Christmas where conflict or any past bitterness was resolved, bringing peace to yourself or your family.
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Ocean of Tears
Write a letter to your tears, recognizing each one of them as symbols of your pain, agitation, and love.
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The Frozen Gravesite
Write a story about someone visiting a loved one’s gravesite during winter and attempting to make peace with their loss.
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Nurture and Nature
Write about a time when you found healing in nature, or imagine a place in nature where you could bring your heart back to wholeness.
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Revitalizing Loved Skills
List down skills or hobbies which you’ve loved doing in the past but currently don’t have time for.
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Childhood Playground Bullies
Write about an experience with bullies or being left out during your childhood.
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Magic Door to Childhood
Imagine the door to your inner sanctuary – A place where your inner child retreats for respite. Describe this door in detail and what awaits inside.
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From Wreckage to Restoration
Write about an apocalyptic novel plot where the Earth is on its path to recovery after facing a major man-made devastation.
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Heartache and Healing
Articulate a Haiku that encompasses the themes of heartbreak and subsequent healing.
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Heartbreak and Healing
Write about a Valentine’s Day heartbreak, and explore the healing process that followed.
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Valley of Broken Hearts
Write a narrative about a place where hearts go to heal after experiencing heartbreak.
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The Healing Crystal
Write a story where a character heals themselves through an interaction with a symbolic crystal.
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The Healing Path
Contemplate and write about how would you cope with the pain associated with unrequited love.
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The Beast’s Beautician
Write a story about a beautician who tames a ferocious beast and helps him regain his human form.
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Emotional Resilience
Describe a time when you rose above your emotional pain, and how it changed you.
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Time Traveler’s Memoir
Write a letter from your future self to your present self, detailing how you’ve healed from this heartbreak.
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The Break-Up Playlist
Create a playlist of songs that encapsulate your feelings of heartbreak, and write about why each song speaks to your experience.
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Embracing the Sorrow
Write a letter to your heartbreak, acknowledging the pain and thanking it for the lessons.
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Unlocking Gratitude’s Power
Write about an instance where you expressed gratitude and saw a positive effect.
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Temporal Healing
Write about a protagonist who travels back in time to fix a regretful moment in their past.
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Resurrected Friendships
Weave a tale of strained or broken friendships mended during the Easter season.
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Life in Letters
Imagine finding a string of letters written by an estranged loved one. Write about the emotional journey the character takes upon reading these letters.
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Renewed by Love
Pen a narrative about a character who was healed emotionally or psychologically because of love.
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Epistolary Confessions
In a story told solely through letters, expose the unraveling and redemption of a relationship between two people or families.
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The Letter Never Sent
Detail a letter you would write to someone you had feelings for but have lost contact.
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Ancestral Assurances
An ancestral spirit returns to provide comfort during combatting an unknown illness.
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Mapping Future Hopes
Focus on the future and compose a list or story of things you look forward to after healing.
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Song of Remembrance
November is the time for remembrance. Write a letter to a lost loved one as if creating the lyrics for a song in their honor.
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Feeding the Soul
Detail a spiritual or creative practice that you’ve turned to for solace in times of emotional pain.
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Ghost of the Past Loves
Write about a character struggling with the memories of a past romantic relationship.
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A Love Rekindled
Compare a past failed love with a present potential love, set in the backdrop of a radiant spring.
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Reverse The Pain
Choose a difficult memory from your past, and creatively write it as a story with a pleasing outcome.
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Letter to Heaven
Pen an open-letter to your loved one expressing all the things you wish you could say to them this holiday season.
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Revisiting Childhood Fear
Write about a fear you had as a child and investigate the reasons behind that fear.
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Conversations with Your Younger Self
Pen a letter to the younger you, offering the advice and insights you’ve gained over the years.
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Letters To The Lost
Write a letter to the person you have lost, expressing all the things you wish you had said.
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The Unpainted Canvas
Imagine your life as an empty canvas and design the masterpiece you would like it to become.
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Prioritizing Happiness
Describe five things that make you happiest and why they make you feel this way.
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Emotional Inventory
Detail your emotions on a typical day prior to your heartbreak and contrast it with your emotions on a typical day now.
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Rebuilding Trust
Write about how heartbreak has affected your ability to trust, and the steps you’re taking to rebuild it.
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Your Innocent Nemesis
Ponder on the biggest obstacle or ‘villain’ you perceived as a child. How do you understand that ‘villain’ now that you’re older?
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Rebuilding Old Bridges
Convey a tale of two characters reconnecting and rebuilding their relationship after a betrayal, with the setting as a background metaphor.
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Scaling the Invincible Peak
Write a story about a mountaineer who is set on scaling an unclimbed, deadly peak.
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Acknowledging Emotions
Write a letter to your heartache, acknowledging how it has shaped you and how you plan to move forward.
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Journey of Healing
Imagine your healing process as a journey and describe what the path looks like, what obstacles you encounter, and how you overcome them.
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Savoring Self-Love
Describe five ways in which you’re going to show yourself love and kindness over the next week.
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Nurturing the Inner Child
Consider what your inner child needs right now, and write about how you’re going to meet those needs.
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Rediscovering Old Wounds
Think of a time you were hurt by something someone said or did. How has it affected you, and how can you forgive or move on?
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Hope and Healing
Share your predictions about how our approach to mental health might change after enduring a global pandemic.
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The Redemption Arch
Create a character starting from the depths of despair or wrongdoing, that slowly works their way towards redemption.
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Room of Regret
Write about a lone room in the haunted mansion that has remained untouched and furnished.
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The Projection Exercise
Imagine a future where you’re healed, happy and have moved on. Write it out in vivid detail.
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Mapping the Healing Journey
Create a timeline of your emotions and experiences from the moment your heart was broken till today.
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Healing Wounds with Words
Pen down an apology letter to someone who you believe you hurt, willingly or unwillingly.
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Carousel of Time
Narrate a story about a seemingly normal carousel that spins in the reverse direction, taking its riders back in time.
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Creating a Masterpiece
Imagine you’re writing a song to express a challenging time in your life, detail the lyrics.
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Holistic Healer’s Journey
Write about a traditional healer who travels to a foreign land and introduces their healing methods to the locals.
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Fresh Start
Write a positive letter to your future self, detailing the things you hope to achieve now that you are moving forward.
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The Playlist of Heartbreak
Compile a playlist of songs that remind you of your lost love and write about the memories these songs evoke.
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Solitude’s Symphony
Write a monologue from the perspective of a heartbroken individual alone in nature.
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Blossoming Relationships
Compare the evolution of a close relationship to the blooming of a flower in spring.
