10 Beautiful Summer Journaling Prompts to Connect to Your Inner Wisdom!

By Emma-Louise Elsey, Founder of FierceKindness.com

This article first appeared on Emma Louise’s Fierce Kindness blog.

You have great wisdom, but are you listening? When did you last feel a deep self-connection, truly pay attention to you and make space to hear what you have to say?

Because whether you like it or not, you’re on a journey—the journey of your life. And it’s a heroic journey that takes us through ups, downs, trials and challenges as well as successes. Recently, with so many difficult and unsettling events both close to home and in our broader world, we all have more than usual concerns, griefs and hardships.

So to support you, I’m sharing 7 powerful nature-themed quotes followed by 10 beautiful summer journaling prompts to help you listen deeply to yourself and what you need in life right now.

Journaling is a powerful tool

Self-connection is a key part of the Fierce Kindness philosophy and practice, one of 4 threads (the “4 Cs”) that enable us to create a fulfilling and meaningful life.

And one tool I use to help me get through challenges and difficult times is my journal. I use it to connect to myself and pay attention to my own wisdom—and it has literally changed my life. I’ve got to know myself deeply, learned to trust myself more, acknowledged my deepest longings and had my best ideas. I’ve taken stock of my life, identified what matters most, made decisions and come to some deeply personal conclusions.

Go deeper by taking your journaling outside.

And the summer (or long holidays if you’re in the southern hemisphere) is a great time to take your journaling outside—into the peace and additional wisdom of nature!

Here are 7 gorgeous nature quotes to get you thinking

1. “Look at a tree, a plant. How still they are, how deeply rooted in being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.” Eckhart Tolle
2. “Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.” Albert Einstein
3. “Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.” Gary Snyder
4. “To me, the first step to conscious awareness is understanding how nature intended things to be. It means being aware of our bodies and surroundings and being able to respect the essence of things without needing them to be different—and this includes ourselves. We must understand the magnificence on how the universe intended us to be without needing to change.” Anita Moorjani
5. “When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It’s about having an attitude of gratitude.” Miranda Kerr
6. “The human soul doesn’t want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild animal—tough, resilient and shy. When we go crashing through the woods shouting for it to come out so we can help it, the soul will stay in hiding. But if we are willing to sit quietly and wait for a while, the soul may show itself.” Parker J. Palmer
7. “Life, life, life! Think of the power that’s in the universe! Moving the earth, growing the trees! And that’s the same power within you. If you’d only have courage and the will to use it!” Charlie Chaplin as Calvero in the movie “Limelight” (1952)

Summer Journaling Prompts Wrap-up

It’s hard to take care of—and know what’s most important to us—unless we make time to listen to ourselves.

The summer and/or long holidays are an opportunity to be out in nature, and get additional wisdom from our connection with the natural world.

Will you make some time to listen to yourself and ask yourself these summer journaling prompts? If so, you’ll discover something incredibly valuable—your own wisdom!