If you need some bullet journal page ideas for self-care, you have come to the right place! Everyone’s lives are getting busier with balancing so many different priorities, it can be really easy to keep going and forgetting to check in with yourself; does that sound like you? It is important to take care of yourself ensuring that you are healthy and happy.
Self-care is a natural habit; usually it is something you must choose to do, setting intentions each week to look after yourself and making yourself a priority.
What is self-care?
To me, self-care is doing things that improve your health, your happiness and your life, even if it is only for a few minutes each day. It is about doing activities that help to relieve the stress of the day. It is about making yourself feel better. Self-care can be difficult to practice because we are not used to putting ourselves first.
Why is self-care important?
Self-care is important because it gives you so many benefits. Practising self-care can:
- Improve your mental health
- Boost your self-esteem
- Increase your happiness
- Improve your mood
These are just some examples of the positive affects self-care can have on you and your life.
Bullet journaling can enable you to improve and create new habits by reminding you and holing you accountable. I use a habit tracker to improve my productivity. You can also have one that tracks your self-care activities.
What ideas can you include in your bullet journal to help track your self-care?
There are so many ways you can use your bullet journal to track your self-care and create an effective self-care routine.
Here are some self-care journal examples to inspire you to start your self-care:
1. Self-care List
Using a bullet journal page or two, write down all self-care activities that interest you, you would enjoy or think would benefit you. This page creates a vision board that you can refer to when planning your self-care routine. It can be a great sounding board when you have a free afternoon to refer to and to fill that time.
2. Mood Tracker
This can be extremely important for people who live with mental health conditions. You can use a variety of ways to record your mood each day. This can help track moods in correlation to a mental health condition. It can also be helpful if you track period symptoms.
3. Brain Dump
A monthly brain dump section in your journal can be effective way to clear your mind; this can really help when you are trying to juggle many things. It gives you a space to note down tasks you need to complete, worries you have, thing that are stressing you, or even ideas you have.
Read: The brilliance of brain dumping for stress management
4. Sleep Tracker
A well-rested body and mind will enable you improve your mood and level of happiness. Using a log/tracker can help you record the amount of sleep you get. You could also keep a record about the structure of your sleep. This can be helpful if you are looking for patterns with sleep, your mental health and your mood, or even your productivity.
5. Gratitude Pages
Practising gratitude is a powerful tool that will work to increase your self-esteem as well as your mental health. You could do one line a day, where each day you write what you are grateful for or you could write a huge list of all the things you are grateful for.
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6. Happy List
Taking the time to sit down and write a list of the things that make you happy is a great self-care activity especially if you are having a bad day. It can be a list, doodles or scrapbook page of all the things that make you happy; it can be a list that you can continue to add to.
7. Exercise Log
Exercise is a great physical and mental self-care activity. Once you have found a form of exercise that works for you, you can then create an exercise routine that you can stick to. You can record a routine as well as an exercise log and what activities you have done. It can be interesting to look at the patterns between exercise and your mood tracker.
8. Love Yourself
Using your bullet journal you can write or doodle everything that you love about yourself. This activity some may find difficult as it can be so much easier to highlight our flaws than it is to be proud of our positive attributes. This self-care idea can help to boost your self-esteem and your self-confidence.
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9. Self-care Tracker
Once you know what kind of self-care activities you want to practise, you can create an effective self-care tracker. There are plenty of ways you can record your self-care routine such as using a habit tracker; you write down the self-care activities and then you check them off on a daily or weekly basis. These trackers can be a great reminder and hold you accountable for practising self-care.
Other self-care ideas for your bullet journal:
- Water intake tracker
- Period tracker
- Weight loss/gain tracker
- Step tracker
- Daily affirmations page
- Reading tracker
There are so many ways you can utilise your bullet journal to ensure that you are practising self-care regularly to promote positive wellbeing. If you want to focus on yourself, using your bullet journal can be an effective way to ensure that you are putting yourself first.
How do you track self-care routines? Do you use a bullet journal? I’d love to hear in the comments.
These are great self-care bullet journal ideas! I love the idea of using a happiness tracker or a water intake tracker since both are super important to your overall wellness.
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Thanks for these creative but practical ideas. I especially like the happy list.
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These are some great suggestions! As you know I don’t use a bullet journal but I do have a regular journal and I feel like I REALLY need to start tracking my self care and habits etc at the moment because I’m really slacking with them and I feel pretty awful for it x
You definitely could track them in your journal. Thank you for reading and commenting Jenny. X
You always have brilliant ideas and they show in your posts. This is great. The point about putting down your thoughts and plans monthly is great.
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Hey! I love all the ideas you have mentioned here. Pretty practical and easy to do. I have tried mood trackers. They are so good!
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Self care is so important and I love all your ideas for tracking to ensure we care for ourselves. Thanks for sharing.
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Ooh I love this! Self care is so important and I love the idea of using a bullet journal to incorporate that. I don’t have a bullet journal yet but I’d love to make a happy list in my standard one as well as get into the habit of practicing gratitude more regularly! Thank you so much for sharing x
Yeah you definitely should. Thank you for reading and commenting. X
I love the sound of brain dump and mood tracker sections. I’ve fried a few times to add things like exercise trackers and I’ve never quite managed to stick with it. Clearly haven’t found the right system for me yet, but there’s some amazing suggestions here x
Definitely try out different layouts and systems. Thank you for reading and commenting. X
These are great suggestions. I love the idea of a steps tracker. I think that could really motivate me to get moving more.
It really helps, setting a target each day! Thank you for sharing.
I absolutely love these tips and will for sure be using them myself. I love the idea of a mood tracker, I’ve never done this before so it’ll be interesting to see what I find out about my moods throughout the day. These are some great suggestions, thank you so much for sharing them with us lovely Xo
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Great ideas here. I’m so jealous when I see peoples bullet journals, they are some lovely ones out there!
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These are such great ideas for tracking your self care. Thanks for sharing them!
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I can see how bullet journals would naturally lend themselves to tracking self-care; I really like the idea!
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I don’t really use habit trackers in my journal anymore, but I do use a messy style, where my daily log consists of to-dos, thoughts, long-form journalling, and brain dumps, among many others. I find that this way of logging my thoughts allows me to see what’s going on inside my head, and allows me to address any issues accordingly. Anyway, thanks for this post, Lauren!
That sounds like a great system that works for you. Thank you for reading and commenting.
These are great self-care ideas to add to your bullet journal. I really like the love yourself and gratitude tracker. I think we need frequent reminders of what we like about ourselves and what’s good in our life. Too much focus in on negativity these days.
I don’t use a bullet journal but I do track my self-care practices in my Google calendar. I have been thinking about restarting a bullet journal but haven’t gotten around to it.
Great post.
You definitely should try again or use a notebook for those trackers. Thank you for reading and commenting.
I do journaling and I still feel stressed maybe it is the lack of sleep. I usually sleep in 2am and wake up at 8am. I’ll try to log that. THANKS!
Maybe you need more sleep, maybe that will help. Thank you for reading and commenting. Can you link your blog so I can read.
One goal of ours is to try to do at least one act of self-care every single day.
That’s a good goal to have. Thank you for reading and commenting.
Some helpful tips. I don’t track self care, I just make sure I take time to do the things I want that make me feel good.
That’s good you do things that makes you feel good. Thank you for reading and commenting.
My notebook is more to-do list than bujo right now, but this post has me wondering if it’s time to switch! I like the idea of tracking more than just my daily tasks, and particularly being able to track self-care. For me, it’s the little things that I overlook, like getting enough sleep. Tracking would be a great reminder!
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These are all great ways to track your self-care. We often track our work progress or goals, but self-care is a huge one as well. I love the brain dump, gratitude pages, and happy list. Thank you for sharing! This was very inspirational!
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The exercise log and mood tracker are amazing recommendations of what to track self-care in a bullet journal. We have definitely used our journals to track our moods. Thank you for sharing!
Bullet journals have so much potential, so I love these tracker ideas! The exercise log, water intake log, and sleep tracker all sound helpful. <3
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Great ideas for keeping track of self care. You reminded me I need to start doing more exercise.
Amazing ideas, lists sound pretty motivating to the true rechargement..
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These are perfect! I’m hoping to start a wee digital bullet journal soon and I’ll have to add some of these to it. Just creating the pages using procreate first!
Definitely! They are so helpful. Thank you for reading and commenting.
this was a great list! with my last pregnancy, bedrest and then what feels like a never ending recovery, I feel like I’ve lost track of what self care even is. this is a really great list of ideas to get back on track!
I hope this list can help you get back on track. Thank you for reading and commenting.
These are some really good tips for promoting selfcare. I am not good with to-do-list, let alone Journaling. But seems like people are finding them useful in reducing stess and improving mental health. Agree with your tip on showing gratitude. Gratitude over attitude magnifies the good and diminishes bad.
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These are all amazing tips! I don’t track much of my self care and that’s probably the reason why most of times I just avoid it! A happy list and self care tracker would really be helpful x
I hope this post helps you to practise self care more. Thank you for reading and commenting. X
These are such great suggestions! I love the idea of tracking my self-care habits x
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These are great self care suggestions. I don’t have a Bullet Journal but I should probably get one. I usually just write things down or use my phone. Thanks for sharing.
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I don’t use a bullet journal, but I like the idea of using one to track your self-care and these are all great ideas! I especially like the idea of a happy list because we can get caught up in all the bad things happening, so it’s good to write down the things that make us happ.
Definitely. Thank you for reading and commenting.
I love lists. This post is perfect for me xD Thanks for sharing.
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These are some great ideas, thanks for sharing! I love the idea of creating a self-care list to refer back to. Must get on with it!
Definitely give it a go. Thank you for reading and commenting.
These are such great tips. Tracking my progress in terms of self care would be a great idea. Sometimes life gets in the way and I don’t stick to my much needed self routine.
Thank you for reading and commenting. Definitely life can get so busy, it is important to remember to put yourself first x
These are great ways to track self-care in your bullet journal! Self-care is so important and it’s so good when you can fit self-care into your daily routine x
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Definitely is important to put yourself first, to look after your physical and mental health. Thank you for sharing x
I can’t remember where I first read about the idea of a gratitude list or gratitude journal, but I’m so happy that I did. Taking that moment to step back and look at the great things in your life can really turn your mindset around. Especially if you find yourself struggling with something or wondering if you are accomplishing anything.
Definitely. Your mindset is so powerful! Thank you for reading and commenting.
Great suggestions, I like the brain dump, but there so many ideas that I can do it with my journal. Thank you for sharing!
Amazing ideas. I need to start bullet journaling again. This post is inspiring me to start again. I love the love yourself, mood tracker and exercise log. Thank you for sharing and inspiring me.
Great post! Honestly love the ideas for the bullet journal! Thank you for sharing!!
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I really need to start bullet journaling again. So many amazing suggestions. I love self-care list, self-care tracker and love yourself. Also the period tracker would be helpful. Thank you for sharing.
I love bullet journaling since I have recently gotten into practicing it! So far, I have filled mine with song lyrics, but I would love to bullet journal for self-care too! I will definitely be trying these ideas, Lauren. Thank you so much for sharing! (x Penny/www.whatdidshetype.com
Song lyrics sounds great. Thank you for reading and commenting Penny!
I love this, great post! I feel like with bullet journals, personally, I’m horrible at drawing or anything to do with art.. but at the end of the day it really doesn’t matter! As long as it serves its purpose – it can be blank with no art or heck I can add a bunch of stickers etc – there is no right or wrong way to decorate a bullet journal. Thanks again for reminding me to get started on mine again 🖤🖤
It is not about the art, there main purpose was simple designs to be productive. Thank you for reading and commenting.
Those are good ideas!
However.. trackers tend do give me anxiety (reason why I chuck it out xd) I become obsessed about having to do it every single day and when I don’t I feel like a failure.. However! Maybe something like a mood tracker could work; as nothing is required of me (just hopefully I don’t forget to fill it ahaha- I could also add if my legs acted up or not)
That’s fair enough, not everything works for everyone. Mood tracker or symptom trackers can be really helpful.