Gratitude Journaling

What Is Gratitude Journaling

Gratitude journaling refers to writing down the good things you have achieved in life, whether big or small. Unlike other personal records, gratitude journaling helps you appreciate how far you’ve come. A gratitude journal can be in paragraph or list form.

How Long Does It Take?

Gratitude journaling can take up to 5 minutes.

Why Do You Recommend That Gratitude Journaling Be Part of Your Daily Routine?

Expressing appreciation regularly reduces stress, anxiety, and depression. As a result, your relationships and general quality of life improve.

What Can You Expect to Happen to You Emotionally If You Practice This Daily?

Practicing gratitude journaling daily helps you stop being negative. This improves your psychological and emotional well-being.

Ieva Kubiliute

Ieva Kubiliute is a psychologist and a sex and relationships advisor and a freelance writer. She's also a consultant to several health and wellness brands. While Ieva specialises in covering wellness topics ranging from fitness and nutrition, to mental wellbeing, sex and relationships and health conditions, she has written across a diverse range of lifestyle topics, including beauty and travel. Career highlights so far include: luxury spa-hopping in Spain and joining an £18k-a-year London gym. Someone’s got to do it! When she’s not typing away at her desk—or interviewing experts and case studies, Ieva winds down with yoga, a good movie and great skincare (affordable of course, there’s little she doesn’t know about budget beauty). Things that bring her endless joy: digital detoxes, oat milk lattes and long country walks (and sometimes jogs).

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