A self-care journal that's the ultimate gift to give yourself.
Self-care has become a buzzword--and a necessary part of life in our stressful and uncertain times.
As this creative, insightful journal demonstrates on every page, self-care is whatever you want it to be. Taking a walk in nature. Meeting a friend for tea. Revising that bucket list--or writing one for the first time. Bestselling illustrator and author Lisa Currie encourages and inspires us to carve out some quality time to take care of the most important person in your life--yourself.
Lisa Currie is an artist and author comfortably planted in Melbourne, Australia. Her books are a fresh start waiting to happen, a map to someplace new! They can be a playful moment with a loved one, or a space to vent and doodle in your own private way.
Her latest book SURPRISE YOURSELF will be released August 2017 by Penguin Random House.
She is also the ringleader of long-running blog The Scribble Project, where she collects hand-drawn interviews with artists and doodlers from all over the world.
This journal is a very useful tool and incorporates some DBT methods and is a great starting point for so many of us.
The journal has prompts asking you to show feelings, to conceptualize and visualize them and is able to give activities that make you think about those in your life, your behaviors, joys etc. It was a struggle to finish on days where I felt down mentally but afterwards you get that small feeling of productivity and accomplishment.
I think Currie did a great job at giving activities that are fun to color and easy to understand emotionally. If anything I felt some were redundant or maybe didn't fit me personally?
Overall a good read and introduction into guided journaling and expressing feelings. I'd suggest it for maybe those 12 or older :)