Lessons from a Tree

Image by Joanne Raptis, Found on Pinterest

I often peruse Pinterest searching for prompts to journal from or share. The image of what I see as a beautiful tree depicted as a woman caught my attention. The advice was spot on and sparked many prompts that I wanted to share.

These can be journaled at your leisure. One at at time soaking in the message and perhaps if you don’t have an answer to the question, set an intention to bring that into your day. Then write from the prompts to seal in that memory and feeling.

Advice from a Tree Prompts

Stand Tall and Proud

• What is something you did today or most recently that had you standing tall and proud?

• What did it mean to you to do this?

• How did it impact how you feel about yourself?

• How did it impact others?

• What do you do when a moment calls for your to stand tall, perhaps speak up or step out of your comfort zone

  • Who do you branch out to?

  • Who can you lean on?

  • What do you reach for that thickens your trunk (the essence of you?)

Go Out on a Limb

• For whom or for what have you gone out on a limb for recently?

  • Showed loyalty, love, and connection with?

  • What did that look like?

  • What did you do?

  • How did that person react, feel, respond?

  • What was the impact on them and you and those around you?

Remember your Roots (use as memoir prompt or family history)

• Who in your immediate or distant or ancestral or chosen family do you connect with?

  • Who do you look like?

  • Are there certain qualities or characteristics that are similar to you?

  • What is a story about an ancestor or chosen family member that reminds you of the standing tall and proud story you wrote about?

  • Or why do you connect with that person?

Drink Plenty of Water

• How do you nourish yourself?

• What is a way that I can drink more water, eat more foods that nourish me?

• Why do I want to care for this physical body?

• What’s in it for me?

• What’s in it for my root family?

• How can I use my journal to track it?

Be Content with your Natural Beauty

• What do I love about myself?

• What is my best personality trait?

• What would someone who met me say they loved about me?

Enjoy the View (this is a wonderful way to daily shift negative to positive)

• How is my outlook right now?

• What is something positive that I’m seeing, hearing, connecting with in this very moment?

• How can I pivot my view to positive at any moment?

• When I climb high enough to be above anything negative, what do I see about me?