Journal Prompts for Your Birthday

1. 1 How do you honestly feel about the age you are turning? What comes up when you sit with the number?
2. 2 Write about one thing you accomplished this past year that you did not think you could.
3. 3 What has surprised you most about becoming the person you are now?
4. 4 Describe a moment from the past year that changed you, even if no one else noticed.
5. 5 What do you want more of in the year ahead: not things, but experiences or feelings?
6. 6 Write a letter to the version of yourself from one year ago. What would you want them to know?
7. 7 What have you outgrown this year: a belief, a habit, a fear, a version of yourself?
8. 8 Who showed up for you this past year in a way that mattered? How did it feel to be seen?
9. 9 What birthday memory, from any year of your life, still makes you feel something tonight?
10. 10 Is there a dream you have been postponing? What would it look like to begin it in this new year of your life?
11. 11 Write about your relationship with getting older. Has it shifted recently?
12. 12 What are three things you are genuinely proud of, that you rarely give yourself credit for?
13. 13 Think about the person you were five years ago: what would they think of your life tonight?
14. 14 What are you most grateful for as you mark another year?
15. 15 Write about something you want to protect and carry forward into your next year: a relationship, a practice, a quality.
16. 16 What would you like to forgive yourself for before this new year of your life begins?
17. 17 If you could give yourself one gift tonight that is not a material object, what would it be?
18. 18 As the night of your birthday winds down, what wish do you hold most quietly in your chest?

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