Coming Home to Yourself — Journaling for Self Awareness and Inner Calm

‘Coming home’ is the road less travelled. It is the decision to stay with yourself and with what you feel. To listen rather than rush on, to meet yourself honestly as you are right now.

Journaling for self awareness makes this possible.

On the page, you don’t have to perform or explain. You can notice what’s true without judgement. Writing slows the pace, softens the background noise, and gives your inner world somewhere to land.

Each time you return to the page, you practise emotional clarity, self trust, and inner calm. You come back to yourself step by step, word by word.

Personal growth is not always about becoming someone new. Sometimes it is about remembering who you already are beneath expectation, pressure, and comparison.

    • What does coming home to yourself mean in this season of your life? Describe it in your own words.

    • Where have you been performing rather than being honest about how you feel?

    • What emotion is asking for your attention right now? Can you sit with it for a few minutes on the page?

    • If you wrote from where you are, not from where you think you should be, what would you say today?

Mrs Hannah Marshall

I’m an author, illustrator, and journaling guide. My work shares storytelling and reflective practices shaped by a lifelong relationship with journaling — an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and meet life with courage and kindness.

https://mrshannahmarshall.com
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