A Journal for Bad Days: Self-Care Strategies to Get Present When Things Aren't Perfect

By Eveline Helmink and Hilary Sheinbaum

Get through the tough times with dozens of prompts and activities in this companion journal to the popular Handbook for Bad Days.

A Journal for Bad Days provides the tools to help you through tough times. Inside, you will find questions to ponder while facing the worst days with courage, compassion, and your head held high. This journal provides sixty prompts inspired by the topics referenced in the popular Handbook for Bad Days, including the benefits of a good cry, the importance of a social media detox, the power of saying “yes, but…”, and the gift of an apology. In these prompts, you can document your personal stories, thoughts, and intimate contemplations about grief, living in the present, ego, and more. Bad days are part of being human, but they no longer have to control you. Instead, you can take charge of your low days and transform them, and yourself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Release date: Nov 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9781668026854

Eveline Helmink

Eveline Helmink is a journalist and writer living in Amsterdam. She is editor in chief at the international media brand Happinez, which shares insights and inspiration for personal growth and a meaningful life. She is the international published author of Handbook for Bad Days and When a Loved One Has Dementia: A Comforting Companion for Friends and Family. Besides her work in the media and publishing field, Eveline works one-on-one with clients as a licensed Master Coach Practitioner. She navigates topics as meaningfulness, change, acceptance, and leadership. Eveline is also known as presenter of sold-out live events in the Netherlands, accommodating guests as Ester Perel, Cheryl Strayed, and Nicole LePera (@TheHolisticPsychologist). Follow her on Instagram @Eveline.Helmink.

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Introduction

Yes, everyone has those really terrible, awful, shitty, very bad days. The upside? There are shortcuts to make these horrific days a little bit better—or at least allow you to step back and process and/or accept the rough bouts. The Handbook for Bad Days isn’t a typical self-help book, and this Journal for Bad Days isn’t either. There isn’t a method or a multi-step plan to follow to eliminate bad days forever—just a number of questions to ponder while facing the worst days with courage, compassion, and your head held high. True happiness isn’t about cutting out the bad days; it’s about accepting life as it is—because it’s often on those days, when everything falls apart, that we learn the most about what brings us comfort, resilience, courage, strength, and, yes, happiness. Within this journal, you’ll find prompts to help you reflect on all of these topics and more.

It’s okay to not be okay

FOUNDATIONS

On Uncomfortable Feelings

On the outside, things aren’t always what they seem. But even more often, when we have bad days, we don’t know how to communicate with a vocabulary that