shadow work journal prompts for beginners

How have I been avoiding healing from my trauma?.

What are the ways in which I have been avoiding addressing the issues that led to my trauma?.

What are the ways in which I have been protecting myself from feeling the pain of my trauma?.

What are the ways in which I have been avoiding my trauma?.

What is the cause of my self-sabotaging behavior and how can I overcome it?.

What is the lesson I need to learn from my current struggle and how can I grow from it?.

What is the source of my inner pain and how can I release it?.

What are my unresolved issues from the past and how can I heal them?.

What triggers my feelings of unworthiness and how can I overcome them?.

What is the cause of my unhealthy patterns and how can I break them?.

What is the source of my recent negative behaviour and how can I change it?.

What is the root cause of my anxieties and how can I heal them?.

What false beliefs am I holding onto and how can I challenge them?.

What are my biggest fears and how can I work through them?.

What scares you the most? What can you do today that scares the crap out of you?.

What is something that you have been procrastinating on and why?.

What makes your mental health better? When do you notice a decline in your mental health?.

How would your authentic self behave vs your people-pleasing self?.

What does your ideal morning look like?.How would you like your loved ones to support you? What are the ways you love to be loved and how do you typically give love to others.What kind words can you express about yourself without guilt? Write them down and put them around your space.How can you express your needs clearly with others?.

Write down your triggers for when you have bad days and write a do list that will cheer you up.How do you feel about your body? In what ways can you take better care of it?.How do you deal with your emotions especially negative ones?.Were you raised to take care of everyone else around you? How has this affected you?.Are there any similarities? How do you feel about that? Write down how your caregivers treated you vs How you treat yourself now.Do you feel as though your needs are important? How do you show this?.What invalidating words have you heard in the past when you stated a boundary or a concern? Do you treat yourself the same way now? What would you say to your younger self?.What do you currently struggle with when it comes to putting yourself first and what will you do differently?.How do you feel about womanhood and femininity? Would you say you are in touch with your feminine side? What feelings come up for you when you think of femininity?.What areas are you low effort when it comes to you? What can you do differently?.If something was important to you, would you stop doing it to win others approval? How important is your validation vs what other people think.How would you respond to your boundaries being crossed? Do you set boundaries? do you speak up or do you prefer to not rock the boat?.Were you able to ask for what you need as a child? What were your caregivers’ reactions?.What in your childhood/past made you feel unworthy?.Would you say you got your needs met as a child? What was missing?.What message did you get around getting your needs met?.What personal stories do you have around your worth?.

What need do you deprive yourself the most? How does it make you feel?.

In what ways do you show that you care about yourself?.

What triggers you to neglect your self care?.

Which areas do you tend to self neglect?.

Shadow work journal prompts for beginners