> Skip to content
  • Published: 5 January 2021
  • ISBN: 9780143775676
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $30.00

My Journey Starts Here

A Guided Journal to Improve Your Mental Well-being



A pretty yet practical guided journal for personal reflection and working on your mental well-being.

Jazz Thornton has achieved huge international recognition for her work in advocacy for mental health and the use of voices of lived experience to provide hope to those who are struggling. This journal, written with Genevieve Mora, her co-founder of the organisation Voices of Hope, provides a creative approach to self-help in mental health and well-being.

The attractive pages will help guide the user in personal reflection, goal-setting, organising support systems and creating strategies for difficult moments. With inspirational quotes, gratitude exercises, colouring-in pages and where to find help, there is plenty here to think about and do. It is a practical and creative outlet for those struggling with mental health or simply looking to improve their personal outlook on life.

  • Published: 5 January 2021
  • ISBN: 9780143775676
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $30.00

About the authors

Jazz Thornton

Jazz Thornton survived a childhood of abuse, depression and suicidal thinking to go on to have international influence in mental health and well-being, using her lived experience to help other young people.
Jazz won Young New Zealander of the Year 2021 for her work.

Genevieve Mora

Genevieve Mora spent the majority of her teenage years battling OCD, anorexia and anxiety, but with help and support she overcame her issues and is now the proud co-founder, along with Jazz Thornton, and general manager of the organisation Voices of Hope, which aims to remove the stigma around mental illness, and to show that hope is real and recovery is possible. Genevieve is also co-creator of Love Your Kite (an eating disorder app resource), a mental health advocate and recently appointed as the adult lived experience voice in the External Eating Disorder Advisory Group in New Zealand, which was established to bring individual perspectives and expertise and to provide advice, support, critical thinking and challenge within the Eating Disorders space.

Discover more

Article
Good Books about Tough Topics

Figuring out how to talk to children about difficult emotions can sometimes feel impossible. Books can offer a good gateway to starting these conversations. Here are some books that might help you to navigate those tricky topics.

Article
30 days of gratitude from My Journey Starts Here

Practising gratitude is scientifically proven to make you happier. Use the prompts in this download to help you fill out the table of all the things you are grateful for.