Emotional Wellbeing
A Letter to Yourself After Getting Through a Hard Year
For a year that only needs to be over: record what held you up, ask the person a year from now what has eased, and give yourself permission to be tired.
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Ideas, prompts and practical guides for writing letters to your future self.
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Emotional Wellbeing
A Letter to Yourself After a Loss: Writing for the Year Ahead
A letter to yourself after a loss: what a letter written now can hold for the person you will be in a few months, with gentle prompts and a sample.
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Emotional Wellbeing
A Letter to Yourself for One Year After the Breakup
Write now, in the raw weeks after a breakup or divorce, to the person you will be in a year, with questions to answer, things to leave out and a sample.
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Emotional Wellbeing
Writing a Self-Forgiveness Letter to Your Future Self
Write a self-forgiveness letter that arrives months later, from the person still carrying the guilt to the one who has had time to let some of it go.
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Emotional Wellbeing
Write Your Worries Down Tonight and Read Them in One Year
Make a plain list of what worries you today, send it to yourself a year ahead, and sort it into what happened, what faded and what is still here.
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Emotional Wellbeing
A Letter to Your Younger Self, Then One to Your Future Self
Write a kind letter to the person you were, then turn its best lines around into a letter to the person you will be, with prompts and two short samples.
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Emotional Wellbeing
Caring for an Aging Parent: A Letter to Your Future Self
Record this season of caring for an aging parent, what you want to remember about them, what you are carrying, and the help you will ask for.
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Emotional Wellbeing
Encouraging Words for Tough Times: Writing to Your Future Self
Write kind, plain words to yourself in a hard stretch, list what you have already come through, and send the letter to a day you may need it most.
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Emotional Wellbeing
A Gratitude Letter to Your Future Self: Thanking Who You Will Be
Write thanks in three directions: to the people who helped you this year, to yourself for your effort, and forward to the person you will become.
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Emotional Wellbeing
A Letter for When You Feel Lost: A Steady Note to Yourself
Write a steady letter on a clear day, for a harder one: three direction questions, a few small, plain steps, and a kind note on getting support.
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Emotional Wellbeing
What Makes Me Happy Right Now: A Snapshot Letter to Yourself
Make a short, dated list of the small pleasures in your life right now, send it to yourself months ahead, and keep a copy to reread on a gray day.