I’ve written about unsent letters and using letters to yourself in the Freaky Friday prompts before. Today spend some time writing in your journal as your past self from a specific time in your life. Take some thought over what was happening in your life at that moment. Was it your engagement, marriage, break up, death of a parent or spouse, starting a new job, leaving home, whatever was an important moment for you? Select your moment and write as yourself at that age. Write to yourself in the future about what is important to remember about that time. Write about all the emotions filling your mind at that time.

You may want to write a letter in reply, if you feel like it. But write that after you’ve reread the letter from today, perhaps tomorrow. I hope you enjoy this journal writing challenge. Please leave any comments in the section below.

Heather

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Freaky Friday #102

If you are a regular journal writer you may have already figured out what the most important thing is about your life. If you haven’t, your journal is a great place to discover this. For this journal writing challenge decide what the most important thing for you is. It doesn’t matter if this is really the ultimate priority in your life. Just make a choice and use that thing for this exercise. Now spend some time writing as if that thing doesn’t really matter to you at all.

Heather

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Freaky Friday #100

All the remembering lately has me thinking how it might be good to imagine your life as a child from a different perspective. Try creating a journal entry where you write about yourself from the point-of-view of a family acquaintance. This may be a neighbour or a friend of your mother or father. If this is a sensitive issue, please don’t write this one, unless you’re feeling very brave. Remember to treat yourself gently. Have fun with this journal writing challenge.

Heather

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Freaky Friday #98