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by Kelly Ayana Nembhard (Author)
A 52-week guided journal for the version of you that's tired of performing "fine" undated, honest, and built for real self-care, not aspirational perfection.
Abundantly You Companion Guide is a 52-week undated journal built around one core idea: the difference between your Created Self, the persona shaped by other people's expectations, and your Authentic Self, the version of you underneath it. Each week pairs a short teaching with guided reflection prompts, a daily habit tracker, and space to set a weekly affirmation and action goal, moving readers through seven sections: Your Vehicle (body and mind), Your Beliefs, Your Truth, Your Trauma, Your Tribe, Your Purpose, and Your Life.
Because it's undated, there's no wrong week to start and no penalty for falling behind. The guide introduces practices like the Bum Day, a full day of guilt-free rest, and closes with a 52-tool Self-Care Toolkit Appendix and a year-end reflection to track how far readers have come.
This is the companion volume to Kelly Ayana Nembhard's Abundantly You: A Toolkit for Authentic Self-Care, and each section opener points readers to the corresponding chapter. But the guide is written to work entirely on its own, for anyone who wants a structured, guided year of honest self-care without having to read the book first.
For anyone who's spent years taking care of everyone else first, this is a year of practice in taking care of themselves too. A meaningful gift for a friend starting therapy, returning from burnout, or simply ready to stop performing wellness and start practicing it.
