Emilie

gentle prodding

I’m not sure when I stopped being a girl and became a mausoleum for tenderness. Maybe it was the night I kissed the moonlight through the window pane and it bit back. Or maybe it was slower—like drowning in lace, like love that unwraps itself from your spine until your bones hum hollow and you start calling it poetry.

Dear bloody diary, they’ve bled me dry till all that’s left is a pallid corpse and a teddy bear, its clothes stained red with button eyes soulless, yet all-seeing, with a piece of me embedded into a barely living being sucking away the force of love that binds me to the very sheets I bleed in. The mattress moans beneath me like a haunted mouth,... See more

What are your headlines of the 2026? How would you soundtrack if it were a movie? Get playful and give yourself space to dream.

Journaling Prompts:

1. My year in three words


2. Something that challenged me this year


3. Someone that changed things


4. Four hobbies that made me happy


5. My favorite place I went to


6. I’m grateful to have...


7. I worked hardest at...


8. If me five years ago could see this year they would think...


9. One way I’ve grown


10. Something to bring to 2026

Open your journal to a blank page and free write a statement on the past year. Don’t think too much going into it, just see what comes to mind. Write until you have nothing else to say and read it back. Are there certain themes you can identify? Wins you forgot to celebrate?

What have you discovered about yourself this year? What do you want to hold onto? What do you want to get rid of? As you dive into these journaling prompts try to focus on the positive side. Anything that didn’t come to fruition is just a seed that still needs time to grow.

Resolutions are restrictive whereas intentions are abundant. I want to add to my life, not take away from it.

billowing