Elevate your self-care ritual with the best journals for mental health

Dedicate time for yourself every day with the Papier Daily Wellness Journal. The journal features plenty of prompts to keep you engaged throughout, starting with a wellness map and pages for personal intentions. This pick from Papier is a great journal for improving mental health, prompting you to start each day with a fresh mindset and checking in on your wellbeing regularly. Plus, it comes in a multitude of gorgeous prints and colours for a bright boost when you need it. Highlights: • Undated 12-week overview.• Space for daily check-ins.• Pages for noting thoughts, feelings, habits and the things you're grateful for.• Get a month's free subscription to the mindfulness and meditation app Headspace when you order a Papier wellness journal.• 50p from every wellness journal sold goes to YoungMinds –the charity that helps young people get the mental health support they need.

Another great pick from Papier, this guided Gratitude Journal focuses on putting your appreciation to paper. The Papier Gratitude Journal is filled with daily prompts for morning and evening, encouraging you to reflect on all that you're grateful for. Use the journal to create a meaningful ritual with monthly check-ins, mindful activities and inspiring mottos.Highlights: • Daily gratitude prompts and mindful activities.• Inspiring affirmations and mottos.• Undated pages to fill out at your own pace.• Get a month's free subscription to the mindfulness and meditation app Headspace.• 50p from every gratitude journal sold goes to YoungMinds.

The Calm & Mindful Notebook will help you to identify the anxiety-inducing aspects of daily life and put them into perspective with your many good fortunes. With inspiration and small activities throughout, this planner pushes you to awaken your mind. It includes monitoring water intake, reducing screen time and acknowledging good deeds and gratitudes. These encourage you to make appreciation a daily habit, rather than an afterthought. Highlights:• Undated and designed to be used over a 12-week period.• Includes weekly mindful exercises like self-care, self-kindness, gratitude, stress and meditation. • Highlights relaxing and mindful tasks such as colouring in, blank creative space and opportunities to delve deep into your inner self.

The Positive Wellness Journal is a beautiful three-month journal dedicated to nourishing your mind, body and soul through creativity, movement and writing. A top pick if you're looking to take a more holistic approach to your self-care, focusing in on both your physical and mental health. It's designed as a 12-week course, but you can dip in and out as you need, adding in the date yourself when you work in it.Highlights:• Undated 12-week programme divided into three sections - mind, body and soul.• Space for daily intentions, reflections, gratitudes and mood-checking.• Includes many practices and activities such as breathing exercises, stretching, yoga and art therapy.

The Uplifting Journal is created as a tool to help with general mood, positive thinking and motivation. The pages are filled with positivity exercises, mindfulness activities and many CBT activities to try. This journal is perfect for all of those going through a tough time. Importantly, to help get you out of the dark and remind you that there is so much light and positivity in the world!Highlights: • Undated 14-weeks of daily journaling.• Includes positivity exercises, daily gratitude, motivational quotes, mindfulness activities and cognitive-behavioural worksheets.

The choices made in the morning can have a huge impact all day long: Utilizing a gratitude journal can encourage you to "win the day" in just a few minutes each morning. This written exercise helps facilitate mindfulness and assists in the creation of a constructive daily focus – the right track to forming a permanent positive mindset.Highlights:• Features simple, quick prompts that focus on gratitude, letting go of stress, and setting daily intentions.• A clean, yet effective page set up provides space to reflect on three daily questions: I will let go of, I am grateful for, and I will focus on.

PAUSE is a mindfulness journal inviting you to take time out every week to think, reflect, appreciate, feel and celebrate life, every minute of it. The journal is a call for you to take 20 minutes a week to curl up in your fave spot and re-calibrate; to just think, feel, remember, explore, appreciate and celebrate life. Filled with fun questions, thought-provoking prompts, inspiring stories and 52 weekly journaling pages, it's a place to explore ideas & desires, celebrate the highs, reflect on the lows; jot down your thoughts, feelings & experiences to keep forever.Highlights:• Undated 52 weekly journaling pages.• Filled with fun questions, thought-provoking prompts, inspiring stories.• Places to explore ideas & desires, celebrate the highs, reflect on the lows; jot down your thoughts, feelings and experiences. • Beautifully bound with a durable latte-coloured cover, elastic to keep it closed and two bookmark ribbons.

I am here now will inspire you to explore your world with greater curiosity and find moments of mindfulness in everyday life while unleashing your creativity along the way. Be present now with exercises to challenge your powers of observation, investigation and cultivation and bring new awareness to your senses, thoughts and emotions. Highlights: • Includes an interactive introduction, over 80 creative activities, insights and instructions, and a meditation 'field notes' section for journaling.• The authors of this book, Alexandra Frey and Autumn Totton are the founders of The Mindfulness Project.

Practical, supportive and uplifting, this is a journal for anyone who struggles with anxiety, whether in the form of phobias, social anxiety, generalized anxiety (GAD) or day-to-day worrying. Beautifully illustrated, The Anxiety Journal encourages you to use CBT techniques and mindfulness exercises to help you better understand your anxiety and help you to achieve peace and calm.Highlights: • Inspiring quotes and advice for when you need a quick calming fix.• Prompts grounded in cognitive behavioural therapy to help identify the causes of your anxiety for long-term peace of mind.• Soothing mindfulness exercises.• Pages to record your thoughts and keep track of progress.