And so wraps a significant month. With December around the corner, today’s journal prompts invite you to reflect on your role within the collective.
When it comes to the reflective prompts I share, they’re always introspective in nature. I offer an angle of introspective not so that we can each burrow more deeply into self-focus. That’s not the point. I’ve noticed in myself and in others that hyper-individuality is often as much a rejection of our innate interconnection as it is a neglect of what DH Lawrence called ‘the deep self.’
Introspection, in this light, becomes an act of reclamation—a way to reconnect to the deeper, relational self that holds the potential to engage meaningfully at a time when things are so atomized and separated by design.
When we know ourselves deeply, we can gather and direct our energy to show up with integrity as a life-long practice.
This month’s journal prompts invite you to look deep within and to call on yourself to bring your gifts forward. It’s an opportunity to reckon with your distinct magic, your agency, and what it means to be alive at this time.
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Onto the prompts!