Writing Prompt: Self-Acceptance
With today's journaling prompt, we are taking a peek into the dark side, by looking at some elements of ourselves that we don't exactly love.
Sometimes awareness of our limitations can help to accept ourselves more fully, and liberate us from the pressure to be perfect. Instead of avoiding our denying our faults and limitations, let’s make some room for them. These struggles make us human, after all!
🖊️📖 What are some of your limitations, imperfections, weaknesses? What disappointments do you have in yourself?
🖊️📖 What limitations or mistakes do you need to forgive yourself for (perhaps on an ongoing basis)?
🖊️📖 What do you need to accept about yourself?
🖊️📖 How might self-acceptance, as opposed to self-criticism, be liberating?
These questions are (slightly modified) from a "Soul-Searching Questions for Midlife" worksheet I created last year with my colleague Dr. Meg McKelvie to accompany our Midlife episode of
Happy writing!
I’m a clinical psychologist, co-host of Psychologists Off the Clock, and author of the books ACT for Burnout and ACT Daily Journal. You can find me online at drdebbiesorensen.com.
Be sure to check out my writing prompts here and my 30-Day Journaling Challenge, with guided audio exercises here!
