Are you ready to create a deeper relationship with yourself based on love and compassion? Check out these 35 self-love journal prompts designed to help you cultivate unconditional love for all parts of yourself: mind, body, and soul.
35 Journal Prompts to Cultivate Unconditional Self-Love
You are worthy of unconditional self-love.
And even more: you deserve to be loved every single day of your life.
Is that hard to say? It used to be for me. I had a hard time believing I “deserved” anything good in this world. I remember the first time I tried to say the affirmation, “I deserve joy.” Almost immediately, my inner bully heard these words and stampeded right out to speak her mind:
“Who are you to say that you deserve joy? How selfish can you be? What have you done to deserve anything? The world doesn’t revolve around you! Stop thinking about yourself so much!”
Ouch. That hurt. But it didn’t dissuade me. So I decided to re-frame my perspective:
I believe my best friend deserves infinite joy and love, right? Absolutely.
And my nieces and nephews? Always.
What about my neighbors, community members, and strangers I see on afternoon walks? Well, sure. I don’t know them, but I believe they deserve joy, too.
It’s just me, I realized. The only person I was being unfairly hard on was myself.
With this newfound perspective, my attitude began to shift. I started to speak lovingly to myself, knowing I was worthy of every single positive word I said.
And that question my inner bully had asked before?
“What have you done to deserve anything?”
Well, nothing. And everything. You see, I realized that I don’t actually have to do anything to deserve love, joy, peace, abundance, and all the good stuff in my life.
I was already deserving, just because I existed.
And the same is true for you.
Cultivating Unconditional Self-Love
Your very existence makes you worthy of unconditional self-love. You don’t have to do anything. You don’t have to prove anything. You don’t have to achieve anything.
You just have to be.
You are worthy.
You are deserving.
And you are more than enough–just because you’re you.
Always.
How to Use These Journal Prompts
The journal prompts below are designed to help you love, celebrate, and honor everything that makes you uniquely you. These journal prompts are all about you: what makes you special, how you make space in your life for self-love and self-care, and what practices you can incorporate into your life to cultivate even more unconditional love within.
There are no rules for how to approach these prompts. If you want, you can answer them one at a time, or you can skip around and find the ones that resonate most with you.
If possible, try to schedule 15 to 30 minutes for your journaling time. Find a quiet spot where you won’t be distracted, and set the intention to be open and honest with yourself. And most of all, release all judgment as you start to write. If an uncomfortable feeling arises, choose to have compassion for yourself.
Remember this:
Self-love isn’t about cultivating perfection. Self-love is about loving your imperfections perfectly.
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