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Welcome to the Positive Journal Prompts Generator, our sunny little app of journal prompts for positive thinking. Encouraging, optimistic, and devoted to the bright side, you’ll find hundreds of positive writing prompts aimed at making your journal a happier, gentler, and more positive place.

There are three tabs to choose from, each of which generates a different type of prompt.

There are:

• Positive Affirmation Journal Prompts aimed at priming your journal session in a positive way. You’ll find prompts like “Before you write, remind yourself: “I’m here for a reason,” and “Write in a way that’s loving toward yourself.” Use affirmation prompts to clear your mind before writing or to start a journal entry with a specific positive intent.
• Gratitude Prompts that ask you to consider “What’s great about” the world. With a focus on the wonderful little things that we experience but often take for granted, the idea isn’t to tell you what to think and write, but to trigger your own positive thoughts and memories, and your own feelings of positivity and gratitude.
• Self-Discovery Prompts aimed at exploring the good inside you. These journal prompts for positive thinking ask you to look within. To recall positive events and memories. To recognize the good things that surround you. And to acknowledge your qualities and inherent worth.

We hope our Positive Journal Prompts Generator becomes one of your favorite journaling resources, and a hint: Better to click slowly and think through each prompt than to click fast and skim. Your mind and heart are doing the heavy lifting here, and won’t do nearly as well when you rush them.

If you like our journal prompts for positive thinking, you may also like our generator for Mindfulness Journal Prompts, and our Journaling Prompts for Mental Health page.

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Self-Esteem Prompts

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But why prompts?

Because like other kinds of journaling, therapeutic journaling benefits from fresh ideas. Which is what the many journaling prompts for mental health across the site are meant to provide you with. Delivered through little push-button apps – our mental health prompts generators.

Here’s what you’ll find:

• The Self-Love Journal Prompts Generator, with prompts that suggest not only topics to write about but healthy ways to frame your thoughts and feelings. Example: “What does the part of you that knows you’re a good person, want you to do right now?”
• The Gratitude Journal Prompts Generator, which is there to remind you of a world worth being in. Example: ” What’s great about… Warm summer rain?”
• The Journal Prompts For Depression Generator, which isn’t meant to be therapy, but offers hundreds of alternatives to feeling bad, with gratitude prompts and positive activities to do and write about.
• The Anxiety Journal Prompts Generator, which suggests healthy frameworks for expressing and exploring anxious thoughts and feelings. Example: “Begin writing with the words: “I can think different thoughts if I want to.”
• The Positive Journal Prompts Generator, which offers hundreds of journal prompts for positive thinking.
• The Journaling Prompts for Self-Esteem Generator, which offers prompts that help you reflect on what’s good and worthwhile about yourself, along with positive affirmation prompts to help you frame your journal entries in a positive way.

Will our journaling prompts for mental health be helpful for you? We hope so. And if you need more, just let us know.

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Welcome to the Journal Prompts for Depression Generator, our hopeful little app for generating anti-depression writing prompts.

To be clear, we’re not therapists and don’t pretend to have the answers for your depression. What we do have are certain journaling ideas for depression – lots of them, that may help you use your journal in a different, highly resourceful way.

They’re based on the Behavioral Activation approaches that many depression sufferers already turn to when they journal: Positive, action-oriented alternatives to feeling bad that can help in reconnecting with the world.

While the prompts aren’t for everybody, and may seem too cheerful for where you’re at, we urge you to give the Journaling Prompts for Depression Generator a whirl, just to see for sure.

The app itself is very simple. All you have to do is click. When you do, you’ll find two kinds of prompts – Gratitude Prompts, and Activity Prompts:

Gratitude Depression Writing Prompts

If you’re unfamiliar with the psychological benefits of gratitude, learning more about it, and doing things to develop your own “gratitude muscle,” is probably well worth your time.

The Journal Prompts for Depression Generator contains hundreds of anti-depression writing prompts designed to exercise that gratitude muscle, by prompting you with questions that ask “what’s great” about the world.

The idea here isn’t to tell you what to journal about or how. It’s to trigger your own grateful thoughts and memories. Ones you can express in whatever way (words, pictures, drawings, poems…) feels right.

In the process, you may find that by turning your attention toward gratitude, and away from depressive thoughts, you begin to feel better – as many journalers already do.

Activity Depression Writing Prompts

Activity Prompts are simple suggestions for things to do and write about. Little things like watching a movie or going to a fair. Sure, you could find the ideas yourself. But when you’re depressed, would you?

The idea is to give you hundreds of activity suggestions that you can either turn into a game (For instance, like a game of “truth or dare”) or use for inspiration.

Either way, after you’ve chosen an activity, the point is to also put your journal to work-  planning the experience, writing about it afterward, and sometimes taking it along.

By focusing on activities in this way, your journal becomes not just a tool for thought and reflection, but a tool for getting out and doing things that have the potential to make you feel better.

And a tip: Don’t flip through the prompts too quickly, and try not to dismiss any out of hand.

Because unless you’ve tried crocheting, singing, or rock climbing, or you’ve purposely felt grateful for the sunlight streaming through a room, how will you know those things won’t help you?

And other than depression, what do you really have to lose?

Like the Journal Prompts for Depression Generator? You may also like Anxiety Journal Prompts, Journaling Prompts For Self-Esteem, and a complete list of our mental health prompt generators at Journaling Prompts for Mental Health.

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The Self-Love Journal Prompts Generator is our gentle little app for generating journal prompts for self-love.

We took an approach we think you’ll like – adapting techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) to create a relatively small collection of self-compassionate journal prompts that can be applied to many situations where you feel your self-love challenged.

• Feeling angry with yourself? Click the “Get Prompts” button before you write.
• Feeling defeated? Click the “Get Prompts” button before you write.
• Hating on your body? Click the “Get Prompts” button before you write.

And then re-frame your feelings with the prompt you get.

You might get this…

“Before you write, tell yourself ‘I love you and don’t want you to suffer.'”

… or one of 100 other self-love prompts.

Your task, if you decide to follow the prompt, is to re-frame whatever way you’re feeling in a more self-compassionate, more deeply resourceful way. Do you journal like this every single time? Only if you want to. But the app will be here when you do.

Our main suggestion in using the app is to click thoughtfully, staying a while with the first prompt you get to see if it offers any value. If not, then click again. Like many other tasks that call for self-reflection, working for speed is apt to be far less useful than careful introspection.

Like the Self-Love Journal Prompts Generator? You may also like Journaling Prompts for Self-Discovery or links to all our mental health prompt generators at Journaling Prompts for Mental Health.

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Prompts For Anxiety

The Anxiety Journal Prompts Generator is our serious little tool for generating journaling prompts for anxiety.

It’s not a therapy or a treatment, and beyond potentially helping you to journal more resourcefully, we don’t claim that it will help you.

What the app does do is translate certain Mindfulness/Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) coping strategies into positive, loving, and forgiving writing exercises for anxiety.

The idea isn’t to change the way you journal, but to use the Anxiety Journal Prompts Generator for positive guided journal prompts when you think they might be helpful.

At the end of a very bad day for example, you might sit down to do a “brain dump” (pouring out everything you’re thinking), but decide to use the app instead.

Clicking the “Get Prompts” button may return this random prompt:

“Begin writing with the words: ‘I’m strong and I can deal with this.’”

Your task would be to go ahead and do your brain dump, but to frame it around the substance of the prompt. In this case, you’d acknowledge that despite the pain, you’re strong enough to handle whatever happened to you that day.

Another random prompt might be:

“What would you write if you finished your thoughts with ‘So what?’”

With this prompt, your task would be to express whatever difficult thoughts you needed to express, but to finish (the journal entry, every paragraph, or every sentence if you want to) with the words “So what?“: The empowering choice to simply not care.

So, did we create these ideas? Nope. The pros did. We just turned them into journal prompts.

And while we need to be totally clear that we don’t have a solution for you, we do hope from the bottom of our hearts that the journaling prompts for anxiety we offer here make a difference in your life.

Instructions: To use the Anxiety Journal Prompts generator, just click the “Prompts” button before you write and consider the prompt that appears. If it speaks in any way to what you’re feeling, use it as a framework for exploring your thoughts. If not, just click for another prompt.

If you like what anxiety prompts do for you, consider buying and using the books we used in our research, “Free Yourself From Anxiety,” “The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook,” and “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy.” Also consider seeing a professional in anxiety disorders who can develop a plan to help you. There are useful therapies out there. You don’t have to live with anxiety.

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