WHY FEELING GOOD IS EVERYTHING

Today, I am so excited because my passion project (which I have been secretly working on with my friend, Kelly Morton) is now out in the world, and I can share all the delicious details with you.

Taa daa! It is the Feel Good NOW Journal which is a guided journal that offers a 90-day conditioning program to get you feeling great every day.

Recently, in our weekly prompt newsletter, The Intentionalist, Kelly and I published an article Lost Your Sense of Joy? How to Get Your Sparkle Back.

It got a huge response, and I understand why.

Periods of joylessness often hit after a major life crisis like the death of a loved one, or during transitions, such as leaving university and entering the workforce, or retiring. Sometimes they happen after a cluster of disappointments where you can’t seem to catch a break.

Joylessness can suddenly hit in middle age: A period where people have life stresses coming at them from every angle – ageing parents, children leaving home, the death of friends, an increased awareness of one’s own mortality, health problems, job insecurity, etc. But it can also come from a sense that one has experienced everything there is to experience in life, and it’s not going to get any better, so there is no point even trying.

A lack of joy snuck up on me

It happened when I found myself the full-time carer to my elderly and ailing father, while still trying to keep my full-time career as a writer afloat. It was an isolating, exhausting and sad experience.

Feeling good is not just a worthy pursuit for the pleasure it offers. It’s vital to our well-being. We can’t help ourselves, or anybody else, let alone save the world, if we slip into a chronically depressed state. Or even just a lacklustre one. We don’t make good decisions from a low state, and if you are a believer in manifesting, you’ll know that having a constant low vibration seems to attract even more woes.

How we feel has implications for our long-term health

Good thoughts and feelings boost our immune systems, while constantly bombarding our bodies with negative thoughts creates stress that can lead to disease.

Knowing that, I employed all the tools that had helped me feel good in the past. Positive affirmations, setting inspiring goals and breaking down the steps to achieve them, visualising and other practices. And that pursuit to keep myself optimistic did pay off. Despite the heavy load I was carrying, I kicked some major life goals which surprised everyone, including myself. (And I also managed to get my father into a wonderful aged-care facility where he is now enjoying himself – and if you’ve had to do this for a beloved elderly parent, you know how much work is involved).

How best to share this with others?

I wanted to share how I managed all this with others, so they could feel good too, no matter what life was throwing at them.

But my ‘system’ was very unwieldy and a tad inefficient. I had gratitude lists in one journal, goals on a vision board and affirmations on my fridge (which I would forget were there after a day or two). The hardest part of creating positive habits is following through on them. And quite frankly, all of us are so busy these days that we don’t need to make keeping a positive mindset so complicated.

I thought it would be more helpful if everything could be in one journal, so that users would wake up in the morning knowing exactly:

• What to do each day to get where they wanted to go and;

• How to create the mindset they wanted to travel there with.

And that they’d also have a place to review and track how they were doing in the evening, as well as drift off to sleep feeling grateful for all the good they had experienced that day.

I also wanted the journal to look uber-stylish on users’ bedside tables and be inviting and simple to use.

So that’s when I approached my talented designer friend, Kelly Morton, and The Feel Good Now Journal was born.

My hope for you is that you will get a copy for yourself (and maybe a loved one or a friend) because the more of us who feel good, the better this world will be. The journal is bumper-sized and will set you up to have an amazing second half of 2025: Happier and more inspired!

$2.00 from each journal sold goes to charities that help save abused and abandoned cats and dogs, so you’ll be doing good while feeling good.

Lots of love,

Belinda XX

What's inside:

✓ Goal-setting exercises to set you up for success
✓ Daily and weekly accountability check-ins
✓ Morning and evening guided journal prompts
✓ Easy-to-use habit and mood trackers
✓ Mindset builders and happiness boosters
✓ Affirmations that actually work
✓ Appreciation and gratitude challenges
✓ Reflective questions for deeper self-awareness
✓ Creative inspiration pages
... and so much more

This journal is for you:

• You want to build a happier, more intentional life

• You’re ready to reconnect with what lights you up

• You want to feel good, but don’t know where to start

• You love journaling but hate the pressure of a blank page

• You’re craving a gentle daily ritual that works

The journal is currently only available from Amazon.

You can find out more about it here: feelgoodnowjournal.com

Watch the interview I did with Jane Tara for Book Queens to find out more.

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