Discovery Journal

Real people, creating real results and making real change for those experiencing mental health issues.

Having been diagnosed with anxiety disorder, OCD and depression, I've felt the cold floor of rock bottom, believing I'd never have a life that wasn't going to be affected by my anxiety. I knew that if I could make sense of it, and find out where it started and how it was being triggered, I could conquer it. Anxiety was just a visitor, not the main character!

The Discovery Journal is a combination of techniques I learnt over a decade of trial and error. I came up with it because I was sick of seeing resources that looked like kiddies’ activity books, bright primary colours with smiling faces telling me to be happy every day and look in the mirror and tell myself how amazing I was. I didn’t feel amazing, and these things only made me feel bad about it.

I would punish myself with guilt if I didn’t complete a day and I’d apply pressure to myself to get it done not realising how counterproductive it was!

So my journals don’t have any of that crap. Simple, mature, logical and NOT DATED.