December Journaling Guide: Light in Darkness
Prompts to explore the light within your darker seasons.
The December Journal Prompt Guide is here. This month, we’re exploring Light in Darkness.
December brings the shortest days of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. As the light fades earlier each evening, we’re reminded of how even the smallest flame can brighten an entire room, a truth that echoes through our lives as well. Light doesn’t need to be loud to be powerful.
Yet this season isn’t only about seeking light. It’s also about honoring the dark — the way it invites us to rest, slow down, and return to ourselves. Darkness isn’t an enemy; it’s a teacher. And the balance between the two mirrors our own inner landscape, where insight often comes from both illumination and shadow.
This month’s guide is created to help you explore the light within your darker seasons, honoring both sides with honesty and compassion. As the world quiets, may you find hope, renewal, and gentle clarity in the slower rhythm of life nature invites.
To help you explore gratitude from different angles, the journaling prompts in this guide are divided into five categories:
Honoring the Darkness
Embracing the Light
Rest, Stillness & Slowing Down
Releasing & Clearing Space
Renewal, Hope & Looking Ahead
There’s no wrong way to use them. You can go through the guide in order, choose a prompt that resonates with your day, or simply open to a random page and begin. If a prompt doesn’t speak to you, you might even try writing about why it doesn’t.
Sometimes that resistance holds its own truth.
How to Access the Guide
The December Journaling Guide is available for free to all paid subscribers of this newsletter.
If you’re not a paid subscriber, you can purchase the guide by visiting my website. Paid subscribers, keep reading to the bottom to access this month’s guide.
I believe in making these practices accessible, and I’m honored to share them with you.
A Space to Write Together
If you’ve been craving a place to write and reflect in community, I’d love to invite you to join my From a Whisper to a Roar Journaling Circle.
We gather twice a month, on Fridays at 9:00 AM EST.
This isn’t a workshop or a class. It’s a supportive, non-judgmental space to come as you are. We begin with a prompt, write in silence, and end with optional reflection. You can share, or simply be held in the quiet presence of others who are also doing this work.