Self Care - A Journal for Being Kind to Yourself

I love this journal!!!! At the beginning of the book it gives you prompts for what you want to work on with yourself. It then goes into the daily pages which help you check in on your progress first thing in the morning, in the middle of the day and also end of the day. It touches on other things other than just the prompts you wrote down at the beginning (general self care of every human!), but also gives you enough space to check in with yourself and make your own small steps during the day to try to achieve your final goal.

Look - the journal is pretty. The paper is fantastic. The graphics are nice. The cover is beautiful. But to be honest, apart from the first few 'inventory taking' pages, it really is kind of pointless and disappointing. It makes you take this whole inventory of what areas you're causing yourself the most pain in, and how you want to work on fixing that... and then it goes straight into daily "did you eat your meals and describe your day" for the entire rest of the book. None of the daily journaling pages refer to, or check back in on, the problems you initially found at the start. It seems completely unrelated and is kind of unhelpful. It doesn't remind you to check back, or check in, you just write down every day if you exercised and how you feel about your day - that has nothing to do with the issues you are pushed to reveal at the start of the book. Was really kind of disappointed.