A page that waits for you and keeps what you gave it
Mara Linde writes guided journals for women with full lives. No lectures, no perfect mornings, no streak to break. Ten minutes on the edge of the bed is the whole plan.
Two lines on a Tuesday will still be there in April
Mara Linde writes guided journals for women with full lives. She kept her first one at fourteen: a school exercise book with a rubber band around it, mostly complaints.
Her books are built for the ten minutes that actually exist: on the edge of the bed, on the train, in the car before you go back inside. No lectures, no perfect mornings, no streak to break. Just a page that waits for you, and keeps what you gave it.
The Cycle Journal
Two Years of Tracking Your Period, Mood and Energy by Hand
Your body has been keeping notes. This is where you write them down. One page a cycle. A year of your own data.
- 26 cycle spreads, two full years
- A 35-day grid with your own legend
- Mood and energy scales that reveal the pattern
- Three honest questions every cycle
12 journals, one habit
Every one of them is undated, printed in paperback and built around the same idea: a page small enough that you will still be filling it in six months from now.
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The Cycle Journal
Your body has been keeping notes. This is where you write them down.
$12.99 · 6 x 9 in
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Still Here
For the one who is always fine.
$12.99 · 6 x 9 in
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A Line a Day
The same date, five years deep.
$24.99 · 6 x 9 in
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Ninety Days of Small Goals
One goal a week beats twelve goals in January.
$12.99 · 8.5 x 11 in
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A Year of Small Good Things
Seven lines a week. That is the entire commitment.
$12.99 · 6 x 9 in
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The Stress Log
You already know you are stressed. You do not know why.
$12.99 · 6 x 9 in
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Tell Me About You
One day you will want to ask, and you will not be able to.
$16.99 · 6 x 9 in
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The Us Journal
Two minutes. Once a week.
$12.99 · 6 x 9 in
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What Is This For
Twelve questions you have been putting off.
$12.99 · 6 x 9 in
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The Word of the Day
One word. That is the whole rule.
$14.99 · 6 x 9 in
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Work, Honestly
Where did the week go? Now you will know.
$12.99 · 6 x 9 in
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The Year After
The first year is not one grief. It is fifty-two of them.
$12.99 · 6 x 9 in
Rest, meaning, attention and the pattern underneath
Different books, one habit. Pick the one that matches whatever you are currently trying to keep track of.
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Rest and sleep
The ten minutes before bed, and what you do with them.
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Meaning
The questions that keep getting postponed until a quieter month.
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Attention
One line, one word, one page. Small enough to keep.
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Seeing the pattern
What you only notice once the same thing is written down six times.
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Gratitude
Written down on the ordinary days, not only the good ones.
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Relationships
The people you live with, care for, or never quite asked.
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Work
Where the week actually went, and where it is heading.
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The cycle
Your own days, charted by hand instead of guessed at.
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Stress
Finding out what sets you off, in writing, before you argue about it.
Writing about the habit itself
How to keep a journal when you have already given up on three, and what actually changes when you do.
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How to Read Back Your Own Notes: Look Down the Column, Not Along the Row
Keeping notes about your mood and energy is the easy half. Reading them back so a pattern shows up is the half most people skip. Here is a simple way to do it.
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How to Ask for Help When You Are the Person Everyone Relies On
If you look after someone, "let me know if you need anything" rarely leads to help. Writing the request down first, in four parts, makes it much easier to ask and to answer.
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Rate It Before You Explain It: The Honest Way to Write Down a Hard Day
Ask yourself how bad a day was and you will talk yourself down to a five. Write the number first, before the reasons, and you get something closer to the truth.
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