Tag: mindfulness

Free Wellness Planner Pages

Life is hard. Sometimes we struggle. Sometimes we struggle A LOT. As someone who has struggled, I am here to tell you: it’s okay. It’s okay to have bad days. It’s okay to cry, to get upset, to be emotional. It’s okay to not always have it all together. It’s okay to struggle sometimes. And if life just feels too much, it is okay to reach out to someone for help. Don’t ever let anyone tell you any different.

One of the things that was a help to me in my own wellness journey (which I am still on – it’s a life-long thing) was using a wellness planner as a way to ensure that I was checking in with myself and to help me track various items in my self-care regimen so that I could see what I was doing well and see what still needed some attention and work. Being on a budget meant I couldn’t afford to buy a ready-made planner, so I set out to make my own.

Later, when I opened my Etsy store,  I had planned to sell my wellness planner as a digital download. A quick search showed me that the market is already well-saturated with similar product, many of which are far fancier than what you’ll find here. What’s a girl to do?

I decided to give my wellness planner away instead.

I know what it’s like to struggle, and I know what it’s like to be on a tight budget, with little to no money to spare after the bills are paid. This wellness planner is a useful tool that some will find beneficial, and I want to make it available so that it can be a help to folks who need it. It’s suitable to a wide range of ages, and it has a basic, monochromatic design, which means you can add color, stickers, die cuts and the like to add your own flair and truly make it your own if you so desire.

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Faith Coloring Pages

It took me a very long time to feel comfortable calling myself an artist. It’s taken me even longer to get to a place where I felt I could sell my work. I believe the latter has a lot to do with the fact that my art, much like the artist, is not perfect. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever created anything that didn’t have some flaw in it somewhere. And because it wasn’t perfect, I didn’t feel like I could sell it.

I finally learned that when you’re making things by hand, there probably is going to be something somewhere that just doesn’t come out perfect, and that is okay, especially with things that are hand-drawn. I have come to prefer a little bit of wonkiness in my hand-drawn work. It feels more honest and organic to me. And so, after many hours spent clutching a mouse (often until my hand ached) to digitally clean up scanned images of art I’d originally hand-drawn (ink to paper), I opened an Etsy store and listed some of my doodle art drawings as coloring pages.

Set 1 at Etsy - FaithThese pages are all available for purchase as a downloadable set of 5 that you can print yourself, or as individual downloadable pages. If you purchase and download the file, you may print as many copies as you want. I am asking, however, that you not sell the printed pages (though you may give the printed pages away) nor resell the downloaded file or give it to anyone else.

I picked up doodle art in dealing with some trauma I’d experienced. It has been very therapeutic, and at times, it has been a way for me to stay present and grounded. Drawing these pieces of art have been an excellent way for me to practice mindfulness. Coloring them could be beneficial in that same sense. If it’s been years since you spent some quality time with crayons, colored pencils, or markers coloring, why not give it a try? There are many other artists selling their coloring pages on Etsy as well. Sometimes simple pleasures can have a big impact.