Halfway Through 2024: June Journaling Prompts

Prompts to help reflect on the last six months, and the six to come.

Photo by Estée Janssens on Unsplash

Let’s check in.

I’m medium.

Like a hardcore, not really red, not really brown, but not a juicy pink, in the middle, medium.

Sometimes I wonder if these miniature crises are my own—am I the only one who wakes up one Monday full of panic and dread and worst-case-scenario-ing? Surely I’m not, and yet every time it happens I think to myself, “god Rachel, you are such a fuck up.”

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The thoughts in my head have been tremendously MEAN lately.

No fancy way to describe it. Many mini murmurs like “you’re failing” and “you’re gonna get left behind” and “if only you had stuck to ABC you’d be to XYZ by now.”

While I’m pretty good at shutting up the brain bullies (see my latest Instagram post for brain-bully-defense here), they still come. And sometimes, I still listen.

We are halfway through 2024—it happened fast, so let’s slow down.

I don’t think I’ve journaled in six months. No joke. Which, if you’ve been a reader for a while, you know is WEIRD.

Once I was the qween of journaling. So much so, I created an entire collection of guided journals ranging from inner child healing, to grief, to self-love.

The Self-Healer’s Journal is available on Amazon or my website, along with dozens of other guided journals

Every morning I would set aside 10-15 minutes to journal.

I’d answer prompts, write a gratitude list, or make mantras.

Affirmations fell freely from my pen and after each letter jotted in my journal, I felt relief.

These rituals did help: I believe the consistent journaling practice I committed to for four years is why my brain has so much strength to fight the brain bullies quickly and with ease. Journaling is mental training, and my mind is fit.

Still, one day, I just stopped.

And since then, I’ve noticed an increase in the pace of my actions. I have started multi-tasking more (not a good thing for me), thinking in random chunks instead of longer focused sets, and waking up in panics.

Halfway through the year seems like a pretty good time to pause, reflect, and set some intentions, so I’m committing again to pulling out the pen, the paper, and the presence.

Let’s dive in.

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