8 Journal Prompts for Reclamation
from the May Issue, No. 24 | reclamation
These journal prompts are featured in our monthly print newspaper, The Retreat. To read them in their intended analog form, check out our newsstand.
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What parts of yourself have been on Do Not Disturb mode because of work, a relationship, or life in general? Consider this journal prompt a You up? text, (but respectable)—and respond back with a plan to reawaken the parts of yourself that you desperately miss.
02.
What’s something you used to love (and lowkey kind of good at) that you’ve totally abandoned? Why the ghost—and is it time for a reunion?
03.
Speaking of reunions—let’s pretend your at your Family Reunion 2025, except each member of the family is different versions of yourself through different moments in time. Each of you has to bring one thing to the party (activity, dish, speech...)—what are those things and (of course) what do your matching t-shirts say?
04.
Henry David Thoreau wrote: We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
What could life look and feel like if you just expected something beautiful to be around the corner, waiting to dance with you?
05.
Tell me about your ancestors. If you could reclaim a tradition, practice, or way of life they once lives, what would it be—and why does that call to you? How can you honor those parts of yourself, remembering that they are in you blood?
06.
For our Northern Hemisphere reader: Spring is here and she did not come to play. Flowers are blooming, birds are flirting, and the air is just begging you to to get up and get out. When you step out this season, who is your spring alter ego? Are they a flower, bird, color, fragrance—and why?
For our Southern Hemisphere reader: Autumn is rolling in with a Knotty One’s sweater and clipboard to help you Marie Kondo your emotional baggage. What are you shedding this season, and how is this release actually a reclamation?
07.
You’ve just relinquished all rights of your Notion/Google/Asana calendar to your inner child (which age, I don’t know—you tell me). What’s on the agenda for today?
08.
Ins and Outs list but on theme...
RECLAIMING: RELEASING: