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Prompts to reflect on growing up.

Explore childhood memories and family lessons, and how they still shape your beliefs and relationships.

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How did my caregivers handle conflict with neighbors or the community and what did I learn about us versus them?

Self-Reflection
Childhood
Cultural
Relationships
Medium

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How did my caregivers react to my questions about life death and the world and were they open or did they shut me down?

Self-Reflection
Childhood
Spiritual
Agency
Medium

Read a chapter tonight from a book or comic you loved when you were a kid.

Action
Childhood
Fun
Night

Did you have a favorite school lunch as a kid and would you still eat it now?

Social
Childhood
Fun
Midday
Low

What did lunchtime look like for you as a kid and is that anything like how you spend it now?

Social
Childhood
Midday
Low

How did my family handle celebrities or fame and what did that teach me about the value of being seen by the world?

Self-Reflection
Childhood
Cultural
Self worth
Medium

How did I handle losing something I believed was meant to be mine and what did that teach me about the nature of attachment?

Self-Reflection
Childhood
Emotions
Closure
Medium

Write down one memory from when you were young that still makes you smile when it comes up.

Action
Childhood
Gratitude

Write down one thing from your childhood neighborhood that you still look for in a place you live or visit.

Action
Childhood

Write down one way your childhood made you better at something you do now and keep the note somewhere visible this week.

Action
Childhood
Gratitude

Write down one thing you did today that your younger self would have thought was pretty cool.

Action
Childhood
Gratitude
Night

What is a way of thinking you learned in childhood that you still use to process your feelings?

Social
High
Emotions
Relationships
Childhood

Do you think the way you were raised around money still affects how you handle it now?

Social
Money
Childhood
Patterns
Medium

Is there a money belief you got from your family that you didn't question until someone pushed back on it?

Social
Money
Cultural
Childhood
Medium

What's a funny memory from childhood that still cracks me up?

Self-Reflection
Fun
Childhood
Low

What's a boundary I wish someone had modeled for me growing up?

Self-Reflection
Boundaries
Childhood
Relationships
High

What emotion did I inherit from my environment growing up?

Self-Reflection
Childhood
Emotions
Patterns
High

Spend an hour doing something you loved as a child such as drawing, building, or playing a game.

Action
Identity
Authenticity
Childhood

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