60 Self Love Journal Prompts

Using self love journal prompts not only helps you learn to be completely accepting of your true self – warts and all – they improve self-awareness at the same time, which is always a good thing!

In a world that actually makes money off us hating ourselves, from our skin to how much space our body takes up, why not buck the trend and take back your power?

Journal prompts in general are a fantastic tool to help you start your journaling journey. They quick literally prompt you with what to write and encourage you to get your thoughts and feelings down on the page, which can feel like a massive relief, especially if you’re struggling with negative self-talk.

By using journal prompts for self-love, you can learn to appreciate yourself, as well as vent about your inner dialogue and get it all out in a place you know you won’t be judged. Your journal is a judgement-free zone!

What are some good self love journal prompts?

#1. How old were you when you first started thinking negatively about yourself? Do you remember what triggered it?

#2. What aspects of yourself do you not like and why?

#3. What are your parents’ views of themselves?

#4. What parts of you would you like to improve? Why?

#5. What traits/qualities do you admire in other people?

#6. What emotions come up when you compare yourself to other people?

#7. How do you deal with envy when it comes to comparing yourself to other people?

#8. What parts of you do you actually like or even love? Why? Let’s talk about them.

#9. How heavily do other people’s opinions influence how you look at yourself?

#10. Do you ever get anxious about or doubt who you are as a person? When?

#11. Write about a situation that made you feel unworthy.

#12. Write about a situation that made you feel loved and appreciated.

#13. When was the last time you felt truly content in your own body? Let’s write about it.

#14. What are your favourite self-care activities? What really works for you?

#15. Write about a time someone insulted your appearance. How did you react and how did that affect you going forward?

#16. What are you really good at?

#17. What is something you’re good at that you hide from the world?

#18. What are your shadow traits?

#19. How do you show love to other people?

#20. What’s your main love language? What makes you feel most loved? Why do you think this is?

#21. Write three self love affirmations that resonate with you and repeat them out loud or in your head.

#22. How do you plan to challenge negative self-talk in the future in order to promote more self love?

#23. What are three things you like to eat that make you feel good mentally and physically?

#24. What are three positive habits you can start that will help you love yourself more?

#25. Write about a time where you felt powerful.

#26. Write about a situation where you felt unconfident, but ended up bossing.

#27. What does self love mean to you as an individual?

#28. What is failure to you? How do you typically react to failure?

#29. What’s your favourite outfit that makes you feel most confident?

#30. Who do you look up to? Do you have any role models or celebrities you admire? What qualities do they have that you like?

#31. What are five things about yourself and your life that you’re grateful for.

#32. What is your biggest achievement?

#33. Is physical appearance important to you? Why might that be?

#34. When do you feel the most like your true self?

#35. When do you feel most content and peaceful?

#36. How would self love change your life?

#37. What would you tell your childhood self now, if you could?

#38. What would you tell your teenage self now, if you could?

#39. Imagine a new you, full of self-love. What would they look like? How would they act? What would your life be like?

#40. List five reasons you deserve to love yourself.

#41. Write a love letter to a part of you that you haven’t shown respect to over the years.

#42. What does forgiveness mean to you? Do you have trouble forgiving yourself? Why do you think this is?

#43. Are their traits that you see in yourself that you also see in other people close to you that you don’t like? Why do you not like them? How can you work on these?

#44. What are 10 things that make you smile.

#45. What makes you feel most confident?

#46. What makes you feel most comfortable in your own skin?

#47. What are three self-care activities you can do every single day?

#48. Why do you feel unworthy? Have you always struggled with feelings of unworthiness?

#49. What are three things you KNOW you’re too hard on yourself about?

#50. What are your long-term self love goals?

#51. What’s one thing you can do to love yourself today?

#52. What are your self love goals for this week?

#53. Write about a self love icon that you really admire and why.

#54. Who is someone you know in your life that you aspire to be more like when it comes to body confidence?

#55. How do you feel about your shadow traits? Why do you think this might be? Notice any emotions that come up.

#56. When do you tend to notice negative self-talk popping up? Is there a pattern or particular trigger?

#57. How do you intend to deal with triggers that make you feel bad about yourself in future?

#58. What songs or type of music makes you feel empowered? (Consider making a playlist to play every morning.)

#59. When you see someone you think looks confident, what about them makes them appear that way to you? How can you embody these things yourself?

#60. What clothes do you feel most confident and beautiful in? How can you incorporate elements of this in every outfit?

(Check out my Journal Prompt Library for 750+ journal prompts to help you transform your mindset all in one place.)

What is journaling for self-love?

Self love is the pursuit of happiness, contentedness and wellbeing in oneself.

I always say it’s not a destination, it’s a journey, because reaching a place where you’re 100% totally completely truly happy with yourself and everything about you is almost impossible. We’re always growing, adapting and changing.

Plus, we’re human.

We have hung-ups and insecurities that may improve but never fully go away.

I’ve been working on my self love for years now and while I’m at a place where I completely respect and love myself for who I am, I don’t think I – or anyone for that matter – will ever truly reach a place of 100% self love.

And that’s okay!

I’m just enjoying the ride and loving myself a little more everyday.

After using self love journal prompts myself, I’ve realised my self-worth.

Journal prompts geared towards improving self love are – as you’ve probably guessed – journal prompts that focus on helping you on your self love journey.

They help improve self-worth, self-acceptance, and self-awareness. They’re all about the self.

Since we’re often conditioned to believe that putting ourselves first is a bad thing, isn’t it refreshing to finally spend some time working on yourself?

Do journal prompts work for self love?

Self love journal prompts are really, really affective.

Why?

Well, firstly, journal prompts the perfect way to get you started on your journaling ~journey~.

They take out the guess work when it comes to actually sitting down and writing about yourself in your journal. (This also makes them a major stress-saver in this respect.)

This means that you can simply sit down with your journal, pick a prompt, and get writing instead of faffing around over what you’re going to write about.

Secondly, self love journal prompts allow you to totally focus on yourself – journaling is self-care after all – which improves self-awareness.

Improving self-awareness helps you embrace who you really are at your core as a human being – shadow traits and all – which leads to a better mindset overall.

What do I write about myself in a journal?

Journaling is a form of self-expression, so you should always listen to your intuitive when it comes to what to write.

However, using self love journal prompts is a good place to start.

Journal prompts for self love will literally prompt you on what to write about yourself.

They’ll get you thinking, reflecting, and observing how you feel so that you can unpack it and work on improving it.

In addition to using self love journal prompts, I really recommend also looking into practising:

• Gratitude journaling
• Goal/intention-setting
• Writing affirmations
• Scheduling in self-care

All these practises put together can have a life-changing, positive impact on your mindset, as well as how you look at the world and yourself.

I know because this is the method I used to improve mine!

How do you fill yourself with self love?

As affective as using journal prompts for self love, there are other ways you can fill yourself with self love that you can practise as well.

• Journaling in General: Other journal techniques that you can practise that will help boost your mindset and ability to love yourself include gratitude, goal/intension-setting, and scheduling self-care.
• Self-Care: Practising self-care by taking care of your mental, emotional, physical, spiritual and financial needs is a great way to build self love.
• Self-Compassion: Learning to kind to yourself is proven to help improve self-esteem. Forgive yourself for your mistakes. Use them as life lessons and recognise that you’re only human.
• Shadow Work: Shadow work is deep-diving into what makes you tick as a human, what traits you’ve developed since childhood, and why. It teaches you to be self-aware and accept yourself in your truest form. It’s super-rewarding.
• Therapy: While therapy isn’t available or accessible to everyone, if you can, I recommend pursuing therapy if how you view yourself is getting in the way of how you live your life.
• Ditching Diet Culture and Nourish Your Body: Diet culture is toxic. It preys on our insecurities and tells us that in order to be worthy, we have to look a certain way. We don’t. Our worth is inherent. By leaving diet culture behind, you learn to nourish your body in a way that feels good for you mentally and physically.
• Move Your Body: Finding a type of exercise that is easily accessible to us and enjoyable is key. Exercise is amazing for our mental and physical health; it helps you get in touch with how your body feels and take care of our bodies.
• Social Media Self-Care: Unfollow anyone who makes you feel unworthy or affects your ability to love yourself. In their place, follow positive people who make you feel awesome and brighten your day.
• Stop Comparing Yourself: Comparison is the thief of joy. We’re all different and that’s what makes human beings so special. Recognise and embrace your uniqueness. Just because you don’t look like someone else who you deem to be beautiful, doesn’t mean to say you’re not. Stop comparing yourself and learn to love what makes you different. That’s where true beauty lies.
• Enforce Boundaries: Enforcing boundaries and learning to say ‘no’ to situations that will make you uncomfortable is the ultimate act of self love. You’re respecting your space and time. You’re doing what’s right for YOU.
• Combat negative self-talk: Self love affirmations are a great way to combat negative self-talk. However, you can take this a step further by making an effort to rationalise any negative thoughts you might have about yourself. When you think something negative, stop, accept the thought for what it is, then rationalise with yourself. Try to find evidence to back this claim up. And I mean HARD evidence. There most likely isn’t any.

How to start a journal

Starting a self love journal is much like starting any other journal aimed at personal development.

I have a whole post on how to start a journal, if you want to check it out.

My main steps for starting a self love journal are:

1. Buy a pretty journal (+ stationary) that you want to pick up and write in
2. Decide what you want to journal about other than self love (for example, gratitude, self-care, affirmations, etc)
3. Draw/write your layout or use a journal printable that aligns with your intentions (I currently sell journal printables on my Etsy shop, if you want to take a look)
4. Sit down to journal without distractions (I recommend doing this first thing in the morning before the world wakes up)
5. Pick your self love journal prompt for the day (pick one that resonates with you, that you’re drawn to on that particular day, or pick one completely at random – the choice is yours)
6. Set a timer as you journal if your time is limited
7. Meditate afterwards to clear your mind (especially if you’ve been doing shadow work)

As well as journaling, some other tips to help improve self love that I personally use are:

• Practising self-care every single day without fail – I actually schedule it in
• Challenging negative self-talk with positive affirmations
• Setting boundaries, ESPECIALLY with people close to me – my energy is now sacred to me
• Wearing clothes that I like – not clothes that I’m expected to wear – and expressing myself through my own personal style
• Shadow work
• Forgiving and accepting myself for being human (which is part of shadow work, but worth mentioning on its own as self-compassion is scientifically proven to improve self love)
• Social media self-care – I unfollow anyone who makes me feel bad about myself or unworthy in any way and follow positive, kind people in their place

It’s a lot. I know.

It takes time.

But honestly, the self-awareness and self-respect this has helped me achieve is nothing short of life-changing.

I’m a more secure, confident person.

I understand why I’m an awesome person.

At the same time, I also hold myself accountable and know which areas of myself I need to work on.

It’s totally worth it.

I understand I’m not perfect – no-one is – and that’s okay because I’m human.

What are some examples of affirmations for self love and self-acceptance?

Self love affirmations are a hugely important part of your self love or self acceptance journey.

In fact, I can’t emphasise their importance enough.

For me, repeating affirmations in my journal every morning and learning to intercept negative self-talk with positive statements about myself has been nothing short of crucial.

Here are some of the most affect self love affirmations that I’ve personally used to heal my relationship with myself and finally not just accept but embrace who I really am as a person.

1. I am worthy
2. I am loved
3. I have so much value
4. I bring so much to this world
5. I am special and that makes me beautiful
6. I am confident
7. I am a badass
8. I am capable of overcome anything
9. I am successful in everything I put my mind to
10. I am passionate
11. I am positive
12. I am who I am and that’s okay
13. I’m fine just the way I am
14. I choose not to let others views define me
15. Others admire me
16. I choose to make time for self-care because I’m worth it
17. I choose to overcome and learn from life’s hurdles
18. Every obstacle is an opportunity to learn
19. I choose to embrace my emotions
20. I am valid; my emotions are valid
21. I’ve got this
22. I’m strong
23. I’m tenacious
24. I am enough, just the way I am
25. I matter
26. Positive change is within my power
27. I choose to be positive
28. I am my own source of happiness
29. I am so much more than my physical body
30. I accept my body as it is
31. I choose to nourish my body
32. I choose to move my body in a way that feels good
33. I love myself deeply
34. I take responsibility for who I am
35. I grow more as a person every single day
36. I respect myself fully
37. My body is my temple
38. I love my flaws
39. I have purpose
40. I am powerful beyond belief
41. I believe in myself
42. I choose to release negative self-talk
43. I love the person I was, the person I am, and the person I will become
44. I am radiant
45. I become a better person every day
46. I am kind to myself and others
47. I give and receive love freely
48. I choose to surround myself with positive people
49. I am grateful for who I am
50. I am grateful for what I have
51. I deserve respect
52. I deserve loyalty
53. I deserve good things
54. I choose to release judgement of myself
55. I am in love with myself
56. I am resilient
57. I am full of joy and beauty
58. Love flows to me freely
59. I am peaceful and warm
60. I have my back
61. I am glowing
62. Others are attracted to my warmth
63. I am exactly who I need to be in this moment
64. I am exactly where I need to be in this moment