Writing and Healing Prompts
The writing and healing prompts gathered here have been developed and gathered over the past 10 years or so, and are now numbered—beginning with the earliest prompts posted in 2006.
In addition, I’ve started in 2016 posting twice daily writing prompts at Twitter. These prompts are different than the numbered ones below, and you can read more about them and see the prompts here.
Please feel free to share any of the writing prompts as you wish—
1. Designing a Healing Retreat
2. Freewriting
3. The Body as a Healing Place
4. The Easiest Writing and Healing Exercise Ever
6. Discovering Needs and Desires
7. Has Writing Ever Changed Your Life?
8. Buy a Box
10. Conjuring New Images and Metaphors for Healing
11. A Scavenger Hunt
12. Falling Apart
13. Lifelines
16. A Walk on a Strange Street
17. Steps for Making a Written Collage
19. The Good Part in Other People’s Stories
20. Finding a Benefit in Adversity
21. Meanwhile
22. Once Upon a Time
23. What If the Moon’s a Balloon?
24. Deciding Who to Bring on the Train
25. A Memo at Your Breakfast Plate
26. Figuring Out the Shape of the Story
27. What Am I Here For? (part one) // What Am I Here For? (part two)
28. Consulting with the Wizard of Oz
32. Keeping a Process Journal: A Long-Term Solution to Writer’s Block
33. Imagining Refuge
34. The Next Step
35. My Favorite Piece of Writing Advice from Natalie Goldberg
36. A Letter for Breaking Through Resistance
37. A Conversation with a Companion
38. I’ve Always Meant to Tell You: A Different Kind of Mother’s Day Greeting
40. A Clean Copy
41. Reading to Discover What You Most Want to Write
43. Rest Hour
44. What Audience Do You Imagine When You’re Writing?
45. Drawing a Map
46. Opening the Door
47. Choose a Word
48. Locating a Potential for Change
49. What Really Counts in This Life?
51. Ira Progoff’s Stepping Stones
52. Stepping Stones in 3 dimensions
54. Become a Lake
56. What if Appearances Are Deceptive?