Journaling is a great way to get to know yourself intimately. If you do not know yourself well, you can’t develop your identity in a way that honors your true self. This is the first week of journal prompts on genderMe.ca, so let’s start simple and work our way into some more complex prompts as the weeks go on.
Your journal can be on many different types of media; it can be an anonymous journal online. It can be a plain notepad. It can be a bullet journal, mixed along with daily task lists and other seemingly unrelated things. It can be an email you send to yourself. Or even a sketchbook where you can draw and write at the same time. Whatever your journal looks like, it should be whatever is best for you in your current journey.
No one is allowed to read your journal without your permission. You do not need to let anyone read your journal. It is private. It is sacred. It is yours.
Journal Prompt, Week One
How am I feeling right now? What do I feel physically? What worries me the most right now?
It is a good idea to start or end each journal entry with something you are proud of yourself for. It could be something as seemingly small as reading this post. It could be starting a journal or even being vulnerable with yourself. We don’t all learn emotional vulnerability during our childhood, but it is a skill we can learn.
Give yourself permission to be yourself and to be vulnerable.