Letters To My Love Oprah Pick Inpires Letters To Self, Baby, Grandchild

You’ve seen the placard passed around on Facebook — what advice would you give to your younger self? And you’ve done mad libs. And yes you’ve dreamed of your great love, your future baby, your life as you hope it will be. The Letters To My Love is a combination of all these things. It’s a handsome pack of mostly blank letters that give you the tools, the prompts, to write things down, to visualize and commit to memory just how you feel. As the tagline says: Write Now. Read Later. Treasure Forever.

Oprah Winfrey just put the Letters To My Love pack on her list of Favorite Things, but she may as well have included all the different versions that Letters To My Love has inspired. Chronicle Books now produces Letters To My Grandchild (note: read Gilead for help with this one), Letters to My Baby, and Letters To My Future Self. That last one could almost describe Oprah’s formula for success — for what has Oprah done more consistently through the years than help people aspire to become who they hope to be? In a way, every episode of Oprah’s show reminded people to make promises to their future selves, and then to try to live up to those promises. So it’s not surprising that Oprah loves the Letters to My Love technique — because it’s equal parts self-examination, self-expression, and love. Here are the Letters to My Love prompts, with two more letters coming blank because by the time you do these you’ll have your own prompts to answer.

1. When we first met……
2. I knew you were the one for me when…
3. What I love about us…
4. I promise to you…
5. It’s the little things, like when…
6. You are remarkable because…
7. Here’s a story I’ve never told you…
8. This is an invitation to…
9. I never want to forget this…
10. I wish for us a future full of…