Sweet Valentine’s Day Journal Prompts
Valentine writing prompts for your journal
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Valentine’s Day journaling
Valentine’s Day is a wonderful time to reflect on the love in your life. These Valentine’s Day journal prompts are designed to help you notice and honor the love in your life so that you can experience love in all its forms. Use these Valentine’s Day journal prompts to recall loving memories, explore your love language, learn more about your approach to self love, reflect on the different types of love, and understand what love means to you. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Valentine’s Day journal prompts for recalling loving memories
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Think about a time in recent years when you felt loved by someone. Write about the memory in detail. How did you know you were loved? What feelings did you experience? What physical sensations did you experience? What thoughts went through your mind?
Think about a time in recent years when you felt love for someone or something. Write about the memory in detail. How did you know you loved this person or thing? What feelings did you experience? What physical sensations did you experience? What thoughts went through your mind?
Think about a time in your childhood when you felt loved. Write about the memory in detail. How did you know you were loved? What feelings did you experience? What physical sensations did you experience? What thoughts went through your mind?
Think about a time in your childhood when you felt love for someone or something. Write about the memory in detail. How did you know you loved this person or thing? What feelings did you experience? What physical sensations did you experience? What thoughts went through your mind?
Think about a time you felt love for something non-human (an animal, nature, object, etc.). What is different about this experience of love? What’s similar about this experience of love? How does this kind of love feel? What thoughts and physical sensations are associated with this kind of love? How does this kind of love impact your life?
How have you witnessed love change over time in your life? What was difficult about these changes? What was positive about these changes? What emotions did you experience with these changes?
Valentine’s Day journal prompts for love languages
Write a list of the 10 things that make you feel the most loved. Why do you think these things make you feel the most loved?
Write a list of the 10 ways you most commonly express your love to others. Why do you think these are ways you commonly express love?
What similarities or differences do you see between the ways you like to receive love and show love?
Take a quiz to find out your love language. Were the results what you expected? Do you agree with the results? Why or why not? Did you learn anything about yourself from this love languages quiz?
How can you incorporate what you know about how you prefer to show love and receive love into your daily life and relationships?
Valentine’s Day journal prompts for self love
Do you show yourself love? If so, how do you show yourself love? Do the ways you show yourself love help you to feel loved? How does showing yourself love impact your life? If not, what ideas do you have about how you could show yourself love? How do you think this would make you feel? How do you think feeling loved by yourself would impact your life?
Imagine that you’re planning a day with the sole purpose of making yourself feel loved. What does your plan for this day look like? Re-read your plan for the day. How often do you incorporate these things in your daily life? Are you happy with how often you incorporate these things in your daily life? If not, how can you begin to incorporate more of these loving activities in your day-to-day life?
Write about the time you felt most loved by yourself. Include whatever details you remember about this experience. What led up to this experience? How did you feel beforehand? How did you feel afterwards? Why did this experience make you experience self love so intensely? How did this experience impact you in the moment? Has this experience continued to impact you? If so, how?
What’s difficult about self love for you? Why do you think this is difficult? How can you honor the fact that this aspect of self love is difficult for you?
What thoughts do you have about the concept of self love? How do you talk to yourself about the concept of self love?
How were you talked to about self love growing up? How did you witness the adults in your life approach self love when you were growing up? Has what you were taught and shown about self loving growing up impacted you? How?
On an average day, where is self love on your priority list? Are there things that make it difficult to prioritize self love? What do you say to yourself (i.e., what thoughts go through your mind) about how to prioritize self love in relation to other things going on in your life?
Who in your life sets a great example for self love? (This can be someone you know personally, a celebrity, a fictional character, etc.) How does this person set a great example for self love? What do you admire about this person?
Do you have any fears or discomfort related to loving yourself? If so, write about those fears/discomforts. What do you fear, or what makes you feel uncomfortable? Why do you think you fear this, or why does this cause you discomfort? What physical sensations are associated with this fear or discomfort? When does this fear or discomfort tend to arise?
Think about the culture and sub-cultures you live in. What does these cultures/sub-culture tell you about what self love looks like? What does this culture/sub-culture tell you about where self love should fall on your priority list? Does this culture/sub-culture send any mixed signals about self love? What do you agree with about what this culture/sub-culture says about self love? What do you disagree with about what this culture/sub-culture says about self love? How do you think the cultural messages you’ve received about self love impact you?
Valentine’s Day journal prompts for reflecting on the different kinds of love
In ancient Greek there were different words for different types of love. Reflecting on these different types of love can help us recognize and honor all the different ways that love can show up in our lives.
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Philia is the deep, authentic love between friends. Where in your life have you experienced philia love? How does philia love feel? How does philia love impact your life?
Storge describes a non-passionate familial type of love based on care. Where in your life have you experienced storge love? How does storge love feel? How does storge love impact your life?
Philautia means loving yourself, having compassion for yourself and having regard for your own well-being. Where in your life have you experienced philautia love? How does philautia love feel? How does philautia love impact your life?
Eros is the word used to describe intimate love with sexual passion. Where in your life have you experienced eros love? How does eros love feel? How does eros love impact your life?
Agape is a charitable, affectionate type of love felt for those closest to you that extends to encompass a transcendent spiritual love. Where in your life have you experienced agape love? How does agape love feel? How does agape love impact your life?
Valentine’s Day journal prompts for understanding love
Having reflected on memories of being loved and loving and on the different ways love can be felt and experienced, spend some time journaling about love in the big picture sense.
What does it mean to be loved? What does it feel like to feel loved?
What does it mean to love? What does it feel like to love?
What impact does love have in your life?
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