The Balanced Mind: A Mental Health Journal: Exploratory Prompts and Effective Practices
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Creative prompts and exercises for working through your most challenging emotions
Take charge of your emotional well-being with a guided mental health journal that can help you explore your thoughts and feelings in meaningful ways. The Balanced Mind: A Mental Health Journal shows you how to reflect on your mental state while providing creative outlets to work through whatever challenges you face.
Designed for people struggling with depression and anxiety―as well as those seeking new strategies to work through negative thought patterns―this mental health journal is filled with thoughtful prompts and effective exercises that teach you how to better support your emotional and mental health. Whether it’s writing about the positive things in your life or relaxing with creative activities, discover proven methods that promote mindfulness and bring about lasting healing.
The Balanced Mind: A Mental Health Journal includes:
Reflect, write, create―Get all the benefits of an exploratory journal and a therapeutic workbook in one complete, beneficial package.Full-page responses―Record all your thoughts thanks to plenty of writing space that follows each prompt in this mental health journal.Emotional health tracking―Take stock by answering questions designed to help you check in and sort out how you’re feeling.
Discover how getting creative can help you better understand and manage your feelings with this mental health journal.
From the Publisher
Try one of the many helpful journaling exercises inside:
Publisher : Callisto (April 21, 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 176 pages
ISBN-10 : 1646117670
ISBN-13 : 978-1646117673
Item Weight : 9.6 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.44 x 9 inches
Customers say
Customers find the prompts in the journal imaginative and helpful for exploring their thoughts and moods. The simple art techniques are easy for them to use. The journal helps strengthen mental health by enhancing the mind-body connection and providing support for emotional mindfulness.
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Eileen R. –
Supportive, thought provoking
This is one of those books that, the more you put in, the more you will get out. The prompts are thought provoking, compassionate, and grounding. It’s written in a way that I feel like the author is right there, walking me through my thoughts and feelings, gently encouraging me along my journey. Great first book — I would love to see more!
Sherrvell J. –
My favorite Journal
I love this journal. When I feel like I want to journal with a purpose and for some inner self, emotional mindfulness, I write in my journal using these prompts. I am a Social Worker, substance abuse counselor and I use this with my clients. Great journal, the prompts can be recycled as emotional healing is an ongoing process. Highly recommend this journal for strengthening your mental health
motivated.mami –
Wonderful!
I found this book on the author’s blog and I find the prompts to be very helpful. I use them with my clients at times. Simple and easy art techniques to use.
Virginia Gilpin –
Excited to use for myself and with clients!!
The Balanced Mind offers beautiful, th gout provoking journal and drawing prompts that enhance the mind-body connection to aid in exploring self, current moods, and thought patterns. As an art therapist, I look forward to using this with clients in session!
Crystal McCown –
Great guided journal! -Thoughtfully, therapeutically done.
This is a fantastic guided journal. As a mental health professional myself, I am always looking for additional tools to recommend to my clients for continued work between sessions. This is definitely one that I will add to my list!The journal itself is beautiful without being overbearing in style, allowing the user to make it their own. There is ample space to be creative and draw, doodle, and color along with spaces to write. The pages are thick enough to handle lots of different times of art media.The prompts are well thought out and insightful. They do a good job of explaining without being overly wordy. They are meet the reader where they are at.The introduction is lovely. Itâs a therapeutic goldmine of explaining mental health holistically, but not too long that people wonât read it. My only criticism is that it mentions âbadâ feelings which as a therapist I practice from a state that feelings are information, and try to help my clients NOT place judgement on their feelings.The quotes are well thought out and serve to help unlock the mind without swaying the reader in a certain direction.I love this journal and will use it in my own self care as well as recommending it to others.** I was provided a free copy and asked to provide a review. All thoughts are my own, and frankly I would have purchased it on my own regardless.
Margaret Moffitt Rahe –
It is thicker than I thought; doesnât fit in my purse! But I use it all the time at home.
I enjoy doodling and journaling. This book is nicely decorated, and the content is imaginative.I wish it were less expensive. I would buy more of them for gifts.
Patti Long –
Great guide for self-exploration!
The Balanced Mind is a comprehensive journal that encourages its user to reflect on past experiences and consider the future all while focusing on the present. The thoughtful prompts delve into recognizing and regulating emotions, practicing mindfulness, benefiting emotionally from physical movement, and building healthy relationships. The activities are well-balanced between traditional written word journaling, art and creative expression, and more active exercises.Having a lot of traditional talk therapy experiences I enjoyed challenging myself with the more creative prompts and appreciated the reminders that I didnât need to be an artist to express myself creatively and benefit from the process. The lists included at the end of the book to help identify feelings, self-care ideas, and strengths were very useful.As someone who has been on both sides of therapy I can definitely see the value this journal offers and I think anyone interested in self-exploration through journaling can benefit from it, no matter what point they are at on their mental health journey.
Monica Reents –
Amazing jornal to guide you through self-reflection
Thank you to Rockridge Press / Callisto Publishing for sending a copy of this book to me. I wrote this review by choice and honestly.The Balanced Mind is a journal to help guide you through a journey of discovery of your mental health. I like the layout and simplicity of this book. There are pages with relevant quotes tucked in between journal entry prompts. Each prompt is clearly explained, and you’re given space to write and/or draw your answers, as you are given writing prompts and creative prompts and self-assessments. In the “How to Use this Journal” it advises that you go through the journal in order, as it is created to build on previous topics.I think this journal has the ability to help you set aside time each day to focus on yourself and consider things you may not have thought about on your own. Learning how to manage your mental health is a very important part of your overall health and this journal addresses issues many of us attempt to cope with every day.I recommend this journal to anyone looking to do some self-reflection, who wants to improve self-care, learn how to cope, become aware of their true thoughts and feelings, and for those wanting to make changes. However, as the author states, if you are someone who is suffering from severe depression, anxiety, or trying to cope with trauma, this journal is not a replacement for therapy.