Self-Care Journal for Moms: 29-Page Journal + App

Description

Fifteen minutes that are yours

Somewhere along the way, self-care got sold back to us as bath bombs and a weekend away. Most of us don’t have the weekend. What we have is fifteen minutes on the porch before the house wakes up, or ten in the car line, and a nagging feeling that we gave the whole day away again.

I built this journal for those fifteen minutes. Not to add one more thing to your list, but to make sure one thing on it is yours.

What it is (and what it isn’t)

The Self-Care Journal for Moms is 29 printable pages you can use a day at a time, a week at a time, or just on the hard days. It isn’t a diet, it isn’t a fitness log and it isn’t therapy. It’s a place to notice how you’re really doing and pick one small, kind thing to do about it.

What’s inside

• Start Here: what self-care looks like at our house, on one page
• Daily: a daily planner and a daily reflection
• Weekly: a weekly planner, a weekly reflection and a Mind, Body, Soul page
• Monthly: a habits tracker, a self-care calendar and three monthly goals that are for you, not the house
• Challenges: a 30-day self-care challenge, a 100-day one-small-thing chart, and a page of self-care ideas for when you can’t think of one
• Trackers: sleep, mood, a self-care routine, a weekly meal planner and a quiet time log
• Someday pages: a bucket list, a letter to yourself and a vision board
• Goals: self-care goals in five areas, a Life Balance Check and balance goals
• Keep pages: My Happy Place, Kinder and Still True (the harsh thought next to the true one), and session notes for counseling, a pastor or a mentor
• Forty journal prompts and a daily journal page to write them on

Before and after

Before: you keep track of everybody’s appointments, lunches and feelings, and your own needs wait for a weekend that never comes.

After: fifteen minutes a day with your name on it, a month of mood ticks that shows you the shape of things, and a happy place page already filled in for the hard week.

Printable, fillable and an app, one price

Print it and write by hand, or open the fillable PDF and type into it. The free Homefire Self-Care Journal app gives you a day page for every date with your morning and evening check-in, water, self-care ticks and a streak of showing up; a weekly habits grid; the 30-day tiles and the 100-day squares keeping their own count; a mood tracker that colors the month and tells you its shape; a journal that hands you a prompt and saves the entry by date; a Life Balance Check that names the three rooms running lowest; and a Keep tab with your happy place for the day you need it: itsasouthernlifeyall.com/app/self-care-journal/ (your Start Here download carries the link too).

Who is writing this

I’m Robin, a mom of four and a grandma of seven. I write as a mom who has been in the thick of it, not as a counselor or a doctor, and this journal is the fifteen minutes I wish somebody had handed me when my four were small.

The details

Instant download: the 29-page printable PDF, the fillable PDF and a Start Here page with your app link, delivered the moment you buy. Print as many pages as you need for your own use. Digital products are final sale; if you have any trouble downloading, email me and I will get you sorted.

You don’t have to be a perfect mom. You just have to keep the fire going.