Your daily prompts for February 2025: Self-care

We all know we should make proper time for our self-care…but how many of us let it slip to the bottom of our to-do lists? I know I often do. This month in the membership we’re going to bring focus, intention and action to our self-care through the practice of positive journaling!

A few things to remember:

• Some of the prompts are lighthearted and playful, and others encourage you to take a bit of a deeper dive — but it’s entirely up to you how long you’d like to spend on each. They’re designed for you to be able to take as much or as little time as you like.

• Likewise, it’s completely up to you whether you’d like to complete the journals prompt everyday or just pick and choose the ones that speak to you the most. Do what feels good to do. If daily journaling feels unrealistic or pressured, then please don’t feel that you have to. Even journaling a couple of times a week can bring amazing benefits to your wellbeing and mindset!

• Most of the prompts here are designed for you to explore with writing, unless otherwise stated. But please feel free to adapt them if you’d rather draw or collage or use any other creative techniques!

• Tip — each time you want to get to these prompts you can log in to the Members area and head to this page (I’d recommended bookmarking it for quick access) or if you’d like to be able to access them offline, you could copy & paste all the prompts and save them in your notes app on your phone, or print them out on a piece of paper at the start of the month. Your choice, of course!

Lastly, I’m here to support you so please just send me an email on hannah@journalforjoy.co.uk if you have any questions at any point.

Happy journaling,

Hannah x

The prompts

1. What does ‘self-care’ mean to you? Free-write for a few minutes to explore your thoughts.

2. What self-care activities are in your current routine? Write them all down. Next, write down ideas for any new ones that you’d like to introduce into your routine. They might be daily rituals, or it could be something you do once a week. As long as it’s something you’d like to do regularly, it counts!

3. Close your eyes and ask yourself ‘What act of care do I need right now?’. Write down anything that came up, trusting your intuition knows what’s best.

4. Describe the feeling of a good night’s sleep.

5. List some of your favourite FREE ways to practice self-care.

6. When you are feeling good because you’ve taken care of yourself, who else does that impact? What is the ripple effect of your self-care? You draw something on your page to represent this ripple effect.

7. Write down a lesson you can learn from nature in winter, about the need for rest.

8. List some of the foods you’ve eaten this week. Next to each one, write down how it made you feel i.e. Green smoothie: nourished. Cookie: cosy. Popcorn: fun.

9. When I practice self-care I am able to _____________ better.

10. What do I need to do, to feel the best I can today?
Is there anything I need to let go of, to not hold myself back?

11. Draw a battery shape, like the one on your phone screen. Colour it in with the energy ‘percentage’ you feel you’re at today. If your energy percentage is below 50%, write down some ideas for how you can boost your charge in the coming days.

12. Give yourself a compliment.

13. Close your eyes and take three long, slow, deep breaths, noticing the sensations in your body. Write about what you noticed.

14. Design a Valentine’s card for yourself ❤️ Write a message for inside too, listing all the reasons that you deserve self-love.

15. Go for a walk in nature and see how many early signs of spring you can notice. Record your findings with photos, doodles or a written list.

16. Draw your favourite healthy meal.

17. When was the last time you felt really well-rested? Write down everything you can recall about when it was, what you were doing, where you were, who you were with and so on.

18. What is your favourite way to move your body? Why?

19. If a genie granted you a wish today that you had to use for self-care, what would you wish for?

20. _____________ helps me to relax after a long day.
Making time to relax is good for me because _____________.

21. Make a mindmap of ideas for how you can properly rest this weekend.

22. Draw a cartoon of a hedgehog asleep in hibernation. In a thought bubble above his head, write down or draw what you think he might be dreaming about! 🦔

23. Write a positive self-love mantra for you to keep in mind today.

24. Step 1: Write down how you’re feeling, right now, in this moment.
Step 2: Put on one of your favourite uplifting songs. Turn it up, sing along, dance around if you want!
Step 3: Write down how you’re feeling now. Did anything change?

25. Create something on your page in under two minutes, just for fun - GO!

26. List five ideas for self-care activities that take under five minutes to complete.

27. Which creative self-care practices are you grateful to have in your life? (Hopefully journaling is one of them 😊)

28. What filled your cup this February? Reflect on the month gone by and particularly notice what felt the most nourishing, or relaxing, or brought the most joy.