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- All Positive PromptsAffirmation PromptsGratitude PromptsSelf-Discovery Prompts

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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All Deep PromptsIdea PromptsSelf-Discovery Prompts

Welcome to the Deep Writing Prompts Generator, our hard working little app for generating deep journal prompts, deep poetry prompts, and deep creative writing prompts if and when you need them.

A little like an oracle and sort of like a game, you’ll delve into hundreds of personal and philosophical writing prompts aimed at challenging your thinking, self-concept, and possibly your writing.

The Deep Writing Prompts Generator is easy to use – just click the “Get Prompts” button and a writing prompt appears. Need inspiration? Click for a prompt. A new idea? Click for a prompt. A nudge in a different direction? Click for a prompt. Anytime in fact you’re looking for a few good deep writing prompts about life – you click. And our little monkey mascot will do his best to find something deep for you to write about.

You’ll see that there are two kinds of prompts:

• Self-Discovery Prompts that ask deep questions about your life: Your hopes, memories, plans, values, and choices.
• Idea Prompts that ask deep questions about your beliefs, ethics, personal opinions, and personal philosophy.

Now, not every prompt will apply directly to your life, and not every one will seem “deep” to you. That’s just sort of the nature of ideas, writing, and individual opinion. But if deep is what you’re looking for, you’re likely to find more than a few real gems.

And a hint: To get the most out of the tool, consider evaluating each prompt thoughtfully before clicking onto the next. Because no prompt is going to seem very deep if you’re not willing to give it a bit of thought.

If you like our deep writing prompts, you may like some of our other writing prompt generators too – the Mindfulness Journal Prompts Generator, and the Journal Prompts for Self Discovery Generator.

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Gratitude Prompts For Kids

Why teach kids gratitude? Because gratitude can make them better people – people who are kinder, more thoughtful, more engaged, and more self-aware.

If that’s not enough, gratitude may make them more successful, too. Grateful people are happier, experience less stress, suffer less depression, have better impulse control, and are more liked by others. Put simply, it’s a good thing to teach children gratitude.

Enter the Gratitude Journal Prompts for Kids Generator, our joyful little app for generating gratitude prompts for children. Fun in the way that opening up a fortune cookie is fun and filled with hundreds of thought-provoking prompts, kids will never be at a loss for exciting, interesting gratitude journal ideas for school, at home – or anytime they’re feeling a little low.

Even for very young children, The Gratitude Journal Prompts for Kids Generator is easy to use.

When you click the “Get Prompts” button a “What’s great about (something)” prompt appears:

What’s great about dragons?

What’s great about sock monkeys?

What’s great about playing tricks on your dad?

The idea is to provide kids with a wealth of wonderful ideas to trigger their own grateful feelings, and do it in a way (with “what’s great”) they can also explore their own reasons why (because I can draw great dragons, because dragons are really cute, because I feel like a dragon sometimes…).

With the Gratitude Journal Prompts for Kids Generator, kids will find plenty to feel grateful for and to write about. And as you see the looks on their faces, you may find yourself feeling pretty grateful too. As we see it, there’s a whole world of things to be grateful for. And you’ll find lots of them right here.

Have any gratitude journal ideas for kids you think we should know about? Send us an email! And for lots more thankfulness, don’t miss the adult version of the app, Gratitude Journal Prompts.

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All Self-Love PromptsEmotional Coping PromptsGratitude PromptsSelf-Esteem Prompts

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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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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Gratitude Journal Prompts

The Gratitude Journal Prompts Generator is our happy little app for sparking gratitude journal ideas when you need them. It won’t magically write your journal entries for you, but can remind you of hundreds of little things that are truly wonderful in this world.

(Looking for the Gratitude Prompts for Kids? Generator? Click here!)

To leave you plenty of room to interpret and expand on gratitude in your own way, we reduced the language of our gratitude prompts to a simple question:

The question of “What’s great about things?”

“What’s great about summer barbecues?”

“What’s great about giving back?”

“What’s great about old and cherished friends?”

Like that. Because while I may love summer barbecues for all the great food, you may love them for the close family and friends.

And while it’s absolutely fine to use the gratitude topics exactly as they appear, you may find that you get more out of them by playing with them a little. Letting your imagination wander with them a little.

From:

• What’s great about all summer barbecues… to the one where you met your husband.
• What’s great about giving back in general… to that one generous act that forever changed you.
• What’s great about all old and cherished friends… to a particular friend who has loved you like no one else.

To use the Gratitude Journal Prompts Generator, click the “Prompts” button, and take a moment to read the gratitude prompt that appears. If it sparks a gratitude journal idea for you, begin writing. If not, just click again. Then be sure to come back tomorrow for even more to be grateful for!

Have gratitude journal ideas you think we should know about? Send us an email. And for children, don’t miss Gratitude Journal Prompts for Kids!

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All Mindfulness PromptsBody Scan PromptsGratitude PromptsIntention PromptsMindful Habit PromptsSelf-Reflection Prompts

Welcome to the Mindfulness Journal Prompts Generator, a meditative and helpful little app for generating mindfulness writing prompts when you want them.

Easy to use and honestly, sort of fun, it pulls from tons of mindfulness journaling exercises served up individually each time you click the “Get Prompts” button.

Like mindfulness itself though, it’s also serious in what it’s supposed to do. And works best when used slowly, thoughtfully, and with the understanding that you’re the one doing most of the heavy lifting.

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

There are:

• Gratitude Journal Prompts which offers hundreds of reminders of “What’s great about” the world. The idea isn’t to tell you what to journal or how, but to inspire your own ideas with ours – of the many wonderful things to feel grateful for.
• Intention Journal Prompts which offers hundreds of mindfulness journal prompts around the goal of setting purposeful intentions. With simple prompts like “Set an Intention of Trust” and “Set an Intention of Appreciation,” the idea is to either work with the first prompt our monkey mascot gives you (using the app like an oracle or a game), or to click until you find an intention that situationally fits your needs.
• Mindful Habit Prompts offers scores of mindfulness writing prompts around habits that support mindfulness in everyday life. Prompts like “Did you show appreciation toward others today?” and “Did you take a break in nature today?” are useful for reminding you of mindful practices that you can implement (and journal about) throughout the day.
• Self-Reflection Prompts offers hundreds of mindfulness journaling exercises for unpacking and reflecting on recent meaningful “moments” of your life. With prompts like “Describe a recent moment of conflict,” and “Describe a recent moment of happiness,” you’re asked to tell yourself your own recent story, and are offered a suggestion (which is just a suggestion) to treat each journal entry like a meditation, mindfully letting it go when you are done.
• Body Scan Prompts offers a small number of prompts to do a body scan meditation when you want to. With prompts like “Notice your toes. What sensation do you feel?” you may or may not want to write a journal entry, but it’s a helpful mindfulness reminder aimed at giving you a bit of random practice you can return to throughout the day.

If you like our Mindfulness Journal Prompts Generator, you may like some of our other writing prompt generators too – the Journal Prompts for Self Discovery Generator and the Deep Writing Prompts Generator.

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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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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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