The February issue of The Village Observer is featuring Wellbeing and so I think it is a great opportunity to show you my journalling go to..The Feel Good Now Journal
It feels like everywhere I look I am being shown how beneficial journaling is for us. It is regularly touted as being helpful in reducing stress, help with anxiety, boost self awareness and improve memory..it seems to me every successful person has a full journal behind them! It’s not something I have every done with regularity before beyond my ‘dear diary’ 14 year old scribblings but I absolutely want to be the most well version of me so in the last little while I have been giving journaling a go. Of course I found the blank page so overwhelming, I must have looked at every guided journal out there.. haha
I am sure it’s really personal, but for me I love the one created by Belinda Alexandra and Kelly Morton. I love the pink cover! I love that it is a 90 day journal (less overwhelming than a 12 month one for me!) I love the goal setting exercises, the checkins, the habit tracker, and sweet affirmations. For me this one seems to be working. I am loathed to say and it will for you too (that sounds so salesy!!)..but I am really enjoying my time with the Feel Good Now Journal
2026 is going to be a fantastic year of reading, already a new Maggie O’Farrell novel in the works and Emily St John Mandel!!! I am also so looking forward to The Society of Literary Marauders by Sasha Wasley, The sophomore novel by Laura McCluskey The Cursed Road..and cannot wait to read Katie Hoskins’ debut When the Party’s Over..so much to be excited for…Happy February Friends, may your month be all booked!