Journaling is an important healing practice. It allows us to get our thoughts out of our heads and onto paper. In doing this, it gives us an opportunity to explore our thoughts more objectively and frees us from the incessant rumination over the ideas that can sometimes drive us crazy.

This post has some suggested journaling prompts for thinking about your relationships with friends and family, and how it might have changed during the pandemic.

This is part of our series, The Pandemic Was/Is Weird, which is a set of group journaling sessions to explore our pandemic feelings together. Some of us are meeting today in a park to explore these questions together, but we like to offer these prompts here too so anybody can access them.

If you feel so inclined, we’d love to hear any thoughts or insights that emerged from going through these prompts for yourself. You can leave them in the comments, or—better yet—post them as a video or post to your own social media feed and tag us in it.

We’re hosting additional journaling and discussion sessions like this over the next couple weeks too. We’ll be exploring themes like Work/Life, Mind/Body, and Love & Relationships. You can find out more about it via the link in the bio.

Lastly, we hope to offer many more journaling and discussions sessions like this in the future, but we need your help.

One way to help would be to share this with three friends who you think would appreciate what we’re up to.

Another way would be to support us on Patreon. You can pledge any dollar amount you’d like and it all goes towards building and expanding our programming. Here is the link:

https://www.patreon.com/thenewnarrative