Introducing Do The Heart Work: Volume 1 – WRITE AGAIN. A 21-day journaling journey designed to help you reflect, reset, and reconnect.
In December 2024, I released this guide to my followers. My hope was that this would be something simple to help us journal through the festive season, which can be equal parts joy and overwhelm. Within days, thousands of people had downloaded it. Messages poured in, from South Africa, Australia, Zimbabwe, the US, and the UK. People were writing. Processing. Enjoying it. The response reminded me why I do this work. This isn’t just another notebook. It’s a companion. A soft place to land in the middle of it all. And we all need those, don’t we?
Each of the 21 days includes a thoughtfully crafted prompt, paired with a personal story, reflection, or gentle encouragement from my own journals and journey. There’s space on every page to write. To pause. To reevaluate your heart and your life.
It’s been beautifully designed by the talented team at Little Bird, using my own photographs, most of which were taken during our years living in the KZN Midlands. (The cover photo? A personal favourite: my children in what was once our backyard, beside the dam where we spent many a slow afternoon drifting into evening.)
Whether you’re a seasoned journaler, someone who used to journal and longs to return, or you're holding your pen again with a bit of hesitation, this is for you.
There’s no rush. No rules. You can move through the prompts day by day, or dip in and out as you like. Because doing the heart work doesn’t follow a formula. It follows your own rhythms.
I created this because I believe in the power of pen to paper. Of words becoming worlds. I’ve witnessed in workshops, retreats, and in ordinary moments at my own kitchen table, how journaling softens us, strengthens us, and anchors us.
This is Volume 1. A beginning. An invitation.
To write again. To feel again. To live from the inside out.
And yes, it would make the most beautiful gift. For yourself. For a friend. For anyone who’s ready to do the heart work.
Jumpstart 2025 with a Life-Giving Journaling Habit
In my latest video, I share practical tips for embracing a life-giving journaling habit in 2025. Discover the power of choosing a word for the year to anchor your intentions and learn the transformative art of vision journaling—a creative practice that combines writing and visualization to map out your dreams and goals.
There’s something beautiful about discovering your true self—the one deeply connected to peace, purpose, security and inner confidence. When you dig into that heart of yours, you’ll find there’s gold within, waiting to be uncovered.
Journals become our history books - the stories of our wins, losses, highs and lows. Use your journal to write in, to paint in, to stick notes and cards. Print photographs and stick them in your journals. Write about those pictures - the memories, the people, how you feel about it all.
Gardens are places of beauty, growth and life, but they require care, nourishment, pruning and the work of our hands. Tend to the garden of your heart with the same diligence as a gardener would… Watch what grows!
We are all living in the worlds based on the words that have been spoken over us or that we have spoken over ourselves.