Anxiety is a bitch. So I created a journal to help me and others deal with it, particularly if you’re like me and require externalisation to understand a concept.

It’s also pretty; with silver stamping on the cover and silvered page edges. Sometimes pretty is what you need.

The A5 journal is split into two sections: the pre-created exercises, and a standard dot bullet journal. While I’m not a medical professional, I based this off both my own experience and The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook (7th ed.) by Edmund J. Bourne. The exercises within this anxiety management journal include:

• Front matter
• Your personal bill of rights
• Checking in…
• Check yourself
• Tell the emotional Karen off
• Choose your affirmation
• Affirmation positive/negative in the moment
• Worry tracker
• Anxiety tracker
• All the good things
• Kicking goals
• Goal plan of action
• The circle of life
• 100 pages of dot grid

Features

• Colour/s: Light blue, silver, black, pink
• Size: A5
• Weight: 210 grams
• Finish: Silvered edges, pressed silver on cover and spine
• Number of pages: 180
• Front cover description: a figure is on a floaty in the middle of the ocean, seen from above, with a mermaid splashing in one corner, and a beach in the other, with an umbrella and drink, with “fuck anxiety” silvered in the corner aligned right.
• Back cover description: A figure in a unicorn floaty with pink hair in the middle of the ocean with text in the middle: ‘A ship is safe in the harbour but that is not what ships are meant for.’