January, 2026
The Daily Practice of Choosing Peace
Peace is often imagined as a destination we’ll reach once life settles down, but in reality, it’s a choice available to us right now.
Choosing peace does not mean avoiding difficulty or pretending that everything is fine. It means meeting life as it is, with intention rather than reactivity. It is a daily practice that begins with awareness.
Our days are typically shaped by habits, responsibilities and beliefs. We move from one task to the next, responding to demands, distractions, and expectations without pausing to consider how we want to live and show up.
The practice of choosing peace begins with a pause. A moment to notice where our energy and attention are being spent. This noticing creates space, and in this space we become aware that we have an opportunity.
This might look like:
- Taking a breath before responding
- Pausing instead of rushing in
- Letting go of ingrained views and opinions
- Experiencing something without labeling it
- Responding with curiosity instead of judgment
These choices may seem small, but practiced over time they impact our lives in significant and meaningful ways, creating a quieter, steadier way of moving through the world.
Intentional journaling offers a simple and powerful way to support this process.
Journaling does not require eloquence. It only asks for honesty. A few mindful moments each day can help us recognize patterns, calm our inner dialogue, reconnect with our values and intentions, and return to ourselves. In this way, it becomes less about recording our days and more about being intentional about how we live them.
Choosing peace does not mean disengaging from life. It means being present while moving through it. It allows us to live with clarity rather than overwhelm, and thoughtfulness rather than urgency. There will be days when it feels impossible and days when it flows naturally. Both experiences are part of the practice. What matters is the willingness to return and to choose again.
If you want to experience more peace in your daily life, begin where you are. Even a few quiet moments are enough. Set aside some time at the start of the day with the Choosing Peace journal. Ask yourself one honest question: What would choosing peace look like today? Make your entry, set your intention, and later reflect on your experience. Over time, the process builds upon itself, becoming a new and nourishing habit, until peace itself becomes the practice.
December, 2025
Why December is the Perfect Time to Begin (or Renew) Your Journaling Practice
As the year draws to a close, we naturally turn inward, reflecting on the months behind us and the year ahead. The world hums once again with holiday activities that demand our time and frequently evoke emotional highs and lows. This makes December an ideal time to begin or renew a journaling practice.
Journaling during this season can help us:
- Reflect on growth, celebrate victories and reflect on the lessons and the moments that have shaped us.
- Release what no longer serves, such as the beliefs, habits, stories, and thought patterns we’ve outgrown.
- Reset our intentions to focus on peace, creativity, love, and healing in the coming year.
Putting pen to paper during the month of December helps us slow down with intention, breathe, and reconnect to our our goals and purpose.
Some of my favorite journals to work with during this season are:
One Small Thing: A journal designed to help you choose one small action every day that can make a big difference in the world around you.
The Little Journal of Outrageous Possibilities: Take one brave action every day. It could be large or small–whatever stretches you. Journal about your experiences and the confidence and resilience you build as you step up and out of your comfort zone.
Freedom Rising: A prayer journal designed to help you discover your purpose and the truth of who you are through a daily practice of asking three questions.
Take a look at the journals on offer, select one that speaks to you, and begin your practice as you close out 2025 and prepare for 2026. Every day is an opportunity to change our lives for the better.
November, 2025
Making a Difference One Day, One Small Thing, at a Time
In a world full of noise, overwhelm, and uncertainty, The One Small Thing journal offers a quiet, yet powerful path forward, one intentional act at a time.
The journal invites you to take simple daily steps toward creating a more compassionate, connected, and sustainable world. Whether you’re focused on caring for yourself, supporting others, protecting animals, standing for justice, or healing the planet, each page gives you space to reflect, take action, and rediscover your own impact.
Inside, you’ll find:
A daily prompt to name one small thing you can do each day to make a difference.
Space for reflection, self-discovery, and gratitude.
A growing awareness that you can make a difference–and that even the smallest actions, practiced consistently, can make a big impact.
A renewed sense of purpose, connection, achievement, and hope.
One Small Thing is the perfect daily journal for change-makers, activists, caring souls, and anyone ready to turn care into action.
October 2025
A Season for Reflection: Choosing Your Journal for Autumn 🍂✨
Autumn invites us to slow down and enjoy life’s quieter moments. It’s a great time to begin an intentional journaling practice.
October is an ideal time to reflect on your growth and set plans in place for the year ahead. You might find comfort in writing by candlelight with a warm drink nearby, or inspiration in using your pages to dream about possibilities with hope and clarity. You might decide that this is the time to overcome anxious thought patters, or make some positive changes, large or small, that bring you closer to the life you want to create.
Whichever journaling practice you choose, let it be a steady companion through this season of reflection, reminding you that your inner world deserves as much care as your outer world.
September 2025
Sometimes, changing your mind is the most powerful kind of magic.
The Thought Alchemy Journal is a pocket-sized, simplified companion to The Conscious Creator’s Notebook. Designed to travel with you, it’s there for the moments when life feels overwhelming or when rumination and negative thoughts take hold.
Inside, you’ll find a safe space to release what’s weighing on you—the anxiety, the spirals, the stories, and then gently transform them. This journal helps you shift fear into clarity by reframing painful, limiting thoughts into new possibilities.
Use it daily as part of your practice, or keep it close and reach for it when you need support.
December 2024
The Conscious Creator’s Notebook: The Impact of this Practice
After suffering from occasional anxiety attacks throughout my life, I fell into an eighteen-month period of constant and severe anxiety. The fear and terror were prolonged and intense, and there seemed no end in sight. I didn’t know how to go about finding the kind of help I needed. I was desperate for relief.
As I paid attention to what was happening in my mind and body, I saw two similar patterns beginning to emerge:
- A situation or comment would trigger an anxious thought, which would, in turn, trigger a physical sensation of fear and dread. The dread sensation would feed the anxious thought, which would then grow and spiral on for hours, days, and sometimes weeks–until it exhausted itself or another anxious thought took its place.
- I would detect a slight sensation of pain forming in the center of my chest. This would grow into an intense physical sensation of fear, which would trigger a random anxious thought. The thought would grow and spiral for hours, days, and sometimes weeks.
My entire life was impacted. I was having difficulty sleeping and found myself crying frequently due to the emotional strain. More seriously, I was experiencing unwanted suicidal thoughts and almost took myself to the emergency room multiple times. I thought I was going mad.
The thing that became very clear to me throughout all of this was that my thought patterns had become highly fearful and toxic, and I had to do something to claw my way out of the nightmare.
I began an experiment. Each day, I would write out my anxious thoughts. I would look at what I had written and then flip it–recreating each thought by writing out its opposite.
I carried my daily list of positive thoughts with me and revisited and read them frequently. They functioned in some ways as affirmations, but affirmations that were personally tailored to me and my life experience.
Miraculously, the first day I did this, I felt some relief.
As time passed, I realized that it was becoming easier to automatically flip fearful thoughts on their head and replace them with better-feeling thoughts. I also found that after some time, I could choose to detach from thoughts and experience life with more presence in the moment and without judgment or opinion. I started to take my power back and regain optimism and peace. My creativity, sense of adventure, and love of life were rekindled. I was gaining my life back.
Anxiety will still flare up from time to time, but it is generally short-lived as I practice retraining my mind to pay attention to what I am thinking and to replace unconscious, fearful thinking habits with conscious, intentional, optimistic, and more peaceful thoughts.
These results have been so impactful to me that I developed this practice into a simple daily journal to help others. I hope it will be as life-changing for you as it has been for me.
November 2024
My personal journey with anxiety
My personal journey with anxiety culminated in a crisis. The fear became so crippling that my life and sense of wellbeing came to an abrupt standstill. I lost all confidence, imagined terrifying situations everywhere, developed phobias, couldn’t function in relationships, gained weight, and suffered from joint pain. I frequently felt trapped, suicidal, and unable to cope. To pull myself out of this dark place, I turned to writing and created my first guided journal: The Conscious Creator’s Notebook.
After immersing myself in this journal practice for a while, I realized that I was starting to emerge from the confusion and despair. I began to develop a genuine understanding of how my personal thought patterns and self-talk had become highly toxic. It was the lens through which I was viewing the world. This realization was the turning point.
As I found my mental health improving I realized that I was ready to take the next step. It was clear that if I was the source of the misery, self-hatred, and fear I was experiencing, then I also had the power to become a source of joy, gratitude, confidence, and love. I began to focus on uncovering the self-love and self-compassion that had been buried under years of toxic thought patterns. I started to seek evidence of beauty, peace, and freedom in my life–and so the Evidence of Joy Journal was created.
I invite you to join me on the journey.
October 2024
Why I Published The Conscious Creator’s Notebook
The Conscious Creator’s Notebook is more than just a journal—it’s a daily practice designed to support mental health, transform unconscious thinking patterns, and help you reach your goals.
Ideal for anyone on a journey of self-care looking to improve mental health, overcome anxiety and stay emotionally grounded.
Available now on Amazon in paperback and hardcover
I designed this journal during my own battle with severe anxiety and speak about this in the book’s introduction.
We all deserve less anxiety and more joy in our lives. Sometimes we need a little help to get there.