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All you need to start writing is a journal that you love
No posh handwriting, no degree in English and no fancy words (unless that's your thing).
There's something about putting pen to paper that seems to embed things in your mind in a totally different way to typing on a screen.
For notebook and journaling lovers out there, a new journal can be the start of prioritising your wellbeing, planning an amazing adventure, learning a new hobby, taking on a challenge, preparing for a new job, organising your time or in exploring difficult feelings. We have designs for personalised notebooks that cover all of these things and more, making them wonderful gifts for loved ones, colleagues, friends...and yourself of course.
I put my thoughts to paper,
and started to feel just a little bit lighter.
About me
I'm Lisa and I started the Self-care Journal co. to inspire writing for wellbeing. On a light note, I have always LOVED notebooks for organising, planning and setting targets. In fact my husband has always brought me notebooks instead of flowers! On a much deeper note, in 2006 I lost my firstborn baby girl which changed my life forever. Writing has helped me through the absolute worst periods of my life; it's truly been my therapy. I want to share my experience and inspire others to take pen to paper too.
Writing for grief is my passion
That's why when you buy one of my personalised grief notebooks, you'll also receive a bookmark with a link to a page with grief writing prompts to help you to explore and express your grief (if you find yourself struggling with a blank page).
It's also why I have created self-led, gently guided grief journals and will be expanding this collection to cover different areas of grief.
How can writing help?
Writing can help with planning for your own wellbeing, decluttering your mind, planning exciting adventures, practicing gratitude, noting the things that make you happy now and all the things you're looking forward to.
Writing is individual for everyone, but most especially when writing for grief. I can tell you though that writing for grief has helped me to
- capture and explore my feelings
- keep hold of and treasure precious memories
- recognise my progress from one year to the next
- keep a connection to my baby girl with the things I'd like to tell her
- consciously notice and reach for the things that help me
- recognise and avoid the things that end up making me feel worse
- appreciate my empathy and all the amazing things in my life now
- have an underlying knowledge that however hard feelings of despair hit, that they won't last forever and that I'll ultimately be okay.
This has been the inspiration behind my gently guided grief journals.
Gratitude
Grief aside, regularly practicing gratitude through writing has also been an absolute game changer for me, despite feeling a little skeptical at first. In its simplest form, writing down just a couple of things that you are grateful for each day can help to rewire your brain to automatically look for the good things in life.
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