Healing Your Inner Teenager Journal Prompts
It is common for wounds and beliefs from your teen years to continue impacting your adult life and relationships. These journal prompts are here to assist you in connecting with your inner teenager, identifying the false beliefs created in your teenage years, and healing from any hard emotions or memories from this time in your life.
This is a list of journal prompts to assist with episode 79: Healing Your Inner Teenager: Why Beliefs from Your Teen Years are Still Impacting Your Life.
Journal Prompts:
How do you feel about your teenage years? Allow yourself to explore any feelings that arise. Nostalgic? Shameful? Happy? Sad? Explore these feelings.
What do you remember most about your familial relationships in your teenage years? Explore any feelings or memories that arise.
What do you remember most about your romantic relationships in your teenage years? Explore any feelings or memories that arise.
What do you remember most about your friendships in your teenage years? Explore any feelings or memories that arise.
If you could put your teenage self into one word (or one phrase), what would it be?
What were some things you loved to do as a teenager? Do you still do these things today? Why or why not?
When you reflect on your teenage years, do any shameful, humiliating, or embarrassing memories arise? Allow yourself to write about these experiences. Then allow yourself to write words of love and compassion. One way to do this is to say to yourself what you wish someone had said to you at that time.
If you felt misunderstood or unsupported as a teenager, allow yourself to write about this and to reassure yourself that you always deserved support and understanding even if you did not receive it at this time.
Reflect on beliefs created in your teenage years. Can you see how any of these beliefs are still playing out in your life today as an adult? Here are some areas to begin to focus on:
Reflect on your beliefs about sex during your teenage years. How have these beliefs impacted your adult life and your current beliefs about sex and intimacy?
Reflect on beliefs about romantic partners and love from your teenage years. How have these beliefs impacted your adult life and your current beliefs about romance and love?
What TV shows and movies did you love as a teenager? Do you see how you may have picked up beliefs from these TV shows and movies?
Reflect on your beliefs about money and financial responsibility during your teenage years. How have these beliefs impacted your relationship with money as an adult?
Did you have your first sexual relationship as a teenager? If so, write about this. Did you enjoy it? Did it end well? Was it embarrassing? Explore any feelings or sensations that arise in your body.
Write a letter to your teenage self as the adult you are today. Tell them how much you love them and how amazing they are. Tell them all the things you wish someone had told you at that age.
Is there something your teenage self would like you to know now? Write whatever comes to mind.
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