264+ ‘Tool’ Writing Prompts
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Roadmap to Recovery
Create a detailed roadmap that outlines your recovery goals and tracks progress.
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Envisioning Positivity
Visualize your ideal future—everything from career to personal relationships to daily routines.
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Mapping Your Meals
Pen down your current typical daily diet, and brainstorm healthier alternatives for each meal.
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Gratitude Reflection
List down the people, things, and experiences you’re grateful for in this recovery journey.
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The What-if Dialogue
Imagine a conversation with an alternate version of yourself. What advice would you give them and what would they tell…
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Emotion Mapping
Draw a map of your emotions, colouring in areas that correspond to various emotional states.
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Positive Affirmations
Compose a list of positive affirmations you can tell yourself every day.
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Navigating Assertiveness
Address an issue where you feel you need to be assertive but are struggling to do so.
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Empathy Affirmations
Craft an imaginary conversation with someone who also feels lonely.
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Listening to our bodies
Describe the physical sensations you feel during different emotional states.
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Exploring Emotions
Write about an emotion you have been feeling recently without naming it.
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Library of Success Stories
Overcome any inferiority feelings by narrating your past achievements, how you achieved them, and the obstacles you overcame in the…
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The Unsent Letter
Write a letter to someone who caused your traumatic event. You are not obligated to send it, it is only…
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Facing The Loss
Write a letter to the person or thing you’ve lost, expressing your feelings and thoughts.
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Breaking Old Patterns
Write about a negative pattern or behavior that you have successfully overcome.
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Examining the Gratitude Graph
Record one thing you are grateful for each day and observe how it affects your mood.
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Letter of Forgiveness
Compose a letter of forgiveness to someone, including yourself, and delve into the process of healing.
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Letters to Future Self: Overcoming Challenges
Write a letter to your future self about a current challenge you are facing.
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5. Healing Visualization
Write about a place or scenario where you completely feel at peace. How does it feel to be there? What…
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Affirmations and Visualizations
Write a series of affirmations to uplift your mood and visualize a better reality.
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Roots and Blooming Days
Create your life timeline highlighting 10 most significant moments that define you.
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Journey to Self-Discovery
Write about your depression as if it were a journey or quest. Where does the journey take you?
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Power of Creation
Reflect on how expressing yourself through creativity aids your journey through depression.
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Symphony of Emotion
Pick a piece of music that resonates with your feelings and write what it evokes.
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Gratitude Amid the Grey Clouds
Write down three things you are grateful for, especially on anxiety-ridden days.
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Unraveling Anxiety Triggers
Write about an incident or event that triggers your anxiety and discuss how you feel before, during, and after the…
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Crystalize Calm
Write about a calm and peaceful place that you can mentally retreat to whenever 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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Closure Through a Letter
Write a story ending with the main character sending or receiving a deeply emotional letter.
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The First Scribe
Create a fictional character who discovers the art of writing for the first time and experiences the spark of inspiration.
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Musical Metropolis
Describe a bustling city scene using alliteration to mimic the rhythm and pace of urban life.
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Alarming Alliteration Adventures
Create a poem filled with alliteration that describes a thrilling adventure or journey.
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Ghostly Whispers
Write a poem from the perspective of something or someone you’ve lost, as if they were speaking to you.
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Unshackled Sorrow
Write a poem about a time you felt immense sorrow but keep it devoid of people, focusing instead on the…
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Food and Healing
Reflect on your experience with food as a tool for healing – specific diets, homemade remedies, or lifestyle changes.
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Changing Perspectives
Write about an important event from your past from a third person’s point of view.
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Letters from the Future
Write a letter from your future self to your present self, full of encouragements, foreseen achievements or future experiences.
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Self-Reflection: Growth Over Time
Write about an aspect of your personality or behavior that has drastically changed over the years.
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Reflective Solitude
How do you feel when you are alone? Explore your relationship with solitude and alone time.