Journaling Prompts: Letting Go
A compilation of prompts and questions to help you gain more clarity and self-awareness during your journaling practice.
Letting go is a process of metamorphosis. It requires you to be willing to shed a layer of skin that no longer snugly fits around you. This layer might have been protective at one point in time but is now more restrictive than it is supportive. Whether your need to let go is in relation to a person or a circumstance, there will always be fear tied to the process because it means contending with the awareness that you’re no longer the same person you once were.
Letting go is an act of admitting that you no longer recognize yourself, which is why it’s easier to maintain a tight grip on the thing you think you can’t exist without. Your identity is most likely tied up in that person or circumstance, so to let them go would be like letting yourself go; abandoning yourself.
Realistically, holding on to things that no longer align with who you are or who you want to become is the biggest act of self-abandonment. Letting go in moments when it’s necessary is the kindest thing you can do for your current self and your inner child. If you’re holding on to something out of scarcity, it’s most likely tied to a past experience in which you believed this was all you could get.
To continue holding on to it when there are other opportunities available to you (even if you might not fully believe it yet) is to prove to yourself that you have to settle for whatever you can get because you aren’t worthy of anything else. This is a devastating narrative to perpetuate, which is why I put together these journaling prompts. I hope that they can help you find some clarity around why it’s so difficult for you to loosen your grip around that person or circumstance and encourage you to begin the process of detachment.
