If your New Year’s motivation is to be more present, be braver, or achieve certain goals, you’ll need one of these wellness journals to get you there.
Journaling is a powerful tool for wellness. It strengthens your mindfulness by helping you reflect and stay on track. Journaling can help you achieve your goals, gain confidence, and even improve your writing and communication skills. According to the University of Rochester, it can ease your stress, ease anxiety, and even help manage depression.
Additionally, research links journaling to a boost in immune function, as journalists are less likely to seek medical attention for stress-related incidents. It also helps cultivate gratitude, which in turn leads to greater satisfaction and happiness in life.
These wellness journals tick all the boxes and are specifically designed to help you achieve your goals, increase your well-being and promote inner peace. These are the 2026 wellness diaries we love.
Local loggers
These locally created wellness magazines support South African artists *and* get the work done.
Good Golly life planner
This landscape diary lets you take charge of your health by tracking your budget, to-do lists, meals and habits. A pocket is handy for notes. It also features blank lined pages and grid pages for doodling and scribbling.
Flexi Wow diary
Designed specifically for women, this journal covers day, month, and year planning, including bullet journaling, money tracking, gratitude lists, and more.
Mr. Price Planner
This concise, undated journal documents everyday life and helps you write down your top priorities, schedules, tasks, and creative writing.
Midlife Money Makeover with Journal by Kim Potgieter
This smart planner is part of a package that includes a textbook on financial planning. The accompanying journal is an easy-to-follow process for preparing for retirement—or just the next chapter of your life.
Design your own diary
Have you ever wanted to buy a journal and were just about to add it to your shopping cart when you noticed something important was missing? That’s why Burble lets you design your own journal, complete with personalized cover. Here is your golden opportunity.
Functional diaries for achieving goals
Any other wellness journal that takes your health seriously and ships straight to your door.
Come As You Are Guided Wellness Journal
This guided lumberjack – with stickers! – by Designworks Ink is full of trackers and opportunities for reflection.
Becoming: A Guided Journal to Discover Your Voice by Michelle Obama
They have read the book and are now using their intelligence to pave the way for you with this language discovery diary. Find inspirational quotes and suggestions to help you discover your story. It’s a journal for doing the deep inner work and finding yourself through these reflections.
One Line a Day from Chronicle Books
Make the effort to be mindful by writing just one line a day. It’s also a great way to look back and reflect on what’s happened over the past few years. Capture your memories however you want: with photos, drawings or colors.
The Wellbeing Journal from MIND
Created in collaboration with MIND, the mental health charity, this journal includes pages of helpful, productive suggestions to allow you to express yourself. Here you will find coloring pages, drawing suggestions and contemplative quotes.
The Anti-Burnout Journal by Bex Spiller
You don’t have to start this journal on January 1st. It spans 12 weeks and allows you to identify what is causing persistent stress and get it under control. Additionally, it features an online dashboard with lifetime access to video lessons on yoga, mindfulness, and more.
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Your 10 Minute Wellness Journal by Gill Thackray
This illustrated notebook allows you just ten minutes of reflection to promote your well-being. Work toward your goals with self-care strategies.
I am here now through the Mindfulness Project
By working through these pages, you can harness mindfulness and create new awareness of your senses, thoughts, and emotions. The pages help you practice meditation with an audio track led by internationally known mindfulness teacher Tara Brach.
Self-Love Workbook by Megan Logan
Trust can open up a whole world of excellence. Give yourself the gift of…yourself with this workbook that includes techniques for building your self-esteem.
Typo Rise Reflect Journal
This guided journal is designed to help you start and end your day with gratitude. It’s perfect for those new to journaling – or if you just don’t know what to write. Prompts allow you to reflect and reprogram your brain for the positive.
The Manifestation Journal by Gill Thackray
Manifestation has its moment. Learn more about your fears and how to overcome them in this book by mindfulness teacher and psychologist Gill Thackray.
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One question a day from Aimee Chase
This five-year diary serves as a time capsule for your brain. Answer just one question each day, and after a while, look back on this book and be amazed at what your life looked like, what you thought, how you felt, how your world was shaped.
The Morning Journal from My Self Love Supply
This successful Insta account with over 3 million fans on Instagram now has a diary to seize your morning and harness the power of the day. Find gentle prompts to understand your needs with reflection and planning pages.
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