My Wellness Journal
Your guide to figuring out how your body works, how to speak up for it and the natural medicines and practices that can help you to thrive
Written by Melissa Christie
illustrated by Stephanie Crane
So many of us are experiencing symptoms like PMS, acne, hair loss, difficulty losing weight, moodiness and period pain…but don’t get the support we need or answers to
what’s actually going on.
If you’re ready for knowledge, insight into how YOUR body works, motivation and empowerment,
My Wellness Journal is your new best friend.
What exactly IS
My Wellness Journal…
My Wellness Journal is a 12-month, undated health diary with easy to read info we should have been taught in school about cycles, hormones, periods and the symptoms and conditions that commonly affect women and AFAB people.
It also has fillable prompts and charts to connect you with your body and manage any symptom or condition you’ve got (from PCOS to acne to period pain to anxiety).
If you:
Experience period pain, PMS or irregular cycles
Have a chronic condition like PCOS or endometriosis
Are trying to conceive or plan to
Want to balance your hormones
Experience acne, hair loss, digestive isues, anxiety, fatigue or a slow metabolism
Wish you felt more connected to your body and had more time for self-care…
This journal is for you.
So many of us are struggling with symptoms and undiagnosed conditions because our experiences have been considered too ‘taboo’ to talk about.
My Wellness Journal is here to change all that.
Get ready to learn about your body, understand health on a whole new level and advocate for yourself to get the healthcare you deserve.
This is not just a blank diary with some space to write your thoughts or record your steps. Sure, it’s cute. But it’s epic. In these 320 pages we’ve got knowledge about…
HOW TO BALANCE YOUR HORMONES
WHAT YOUR PERIOD CAN TELL YOU ABOUT YOUR HEALTH
OVULATION AND WHY IT MATTERS EVEN IF YOU NEVER WANT TO GET PREGNANT
CHRONIC CONDITIONS LIKE PCOS, ENDO, THYROID DISEASE AND PMDD
WAYS TO HEAL YOUR MENTAL HEALTH THAT NEED TO BE KNOWN
NUTRITION AND SELF-CARE FOR A BALANCED AND NOURISHED LIFESTYLE
THE 3 PILLARS OF FERTILITY AND HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR FERTILITY
THE NATURAL MEDICINES AND MEDICAL SYSTEMS THAT CAN HELP YOU TO HEAL
WAYS TO ADVOCATE FOR YOURSELF WITH YOUR DOCTORS
THE TRUTH ABOUT HORMONAL BIRTH CONTROL AND SO MUCH MORE!!
But it’s not just a book. It’s a fully interactive 12 month journal
with space for…
Tracking your cycle
managing your symptoms, treatments and conditions
ticking off daily habits you're forming
meal planning
recording and learning about the phases of your cycle
integrating the knowledge you learn, into your life
tracking self-care, body movement and sleep
practicing gratitude, self-reflection and intention setting
You’re probably wondering what My Wellness Journal can actually do for you.
So much!
First and foremost, My Wellness Journal will help you manage and improve any symptom or condition you’ve got.
The knowledge you will gain, the interactive tools and charts you will use and the empowerment you will feel to advocate for yourself with your healthcare practitioners are absolutely game changing.
The weekly topic and tips will grow your knowledge easily and gradually so that you become a pillar of evidence based information for you, your family and your community.
You will know how to track your cycle, what tests are needed for certain conditions, the natural medicines and healing practices available to us and how they work, the building blocks of a balanced lifestyle and so much more.
You will know how to recognise and interpret the messages your body sends you every single day.
You will become friends with your body.
You will feel motivated to live your best life.
You will finally find it easy to prioritise your health.
And your health can improve.
Oh…and another benefit? Reading My Wellness Journal and spreading around the info we learn, may just help step us away from the patriarchy and into equality. Yeah. We’ve got lofty ideas over here. Bit it’s time for change and we believe My Wellness Journal can do it..
What I’ve learnt on my journey as a hormone health advocate, fertility coach and woman with PCOS and Hashimoto’s, is that our patriarchal society has disconnected us from our cycles, our hormones, our period and our symptoms.
These topics are shied away from in school curriculum’s and instead, we are taught to feel shame around these parts of our life and to ignore them and it’s resulting in more than just hurt feelings.
Many of the conditions effecting us take around a decade to diagnose because we are taught to ignore the symptoms and not to talk about them because they are ‘private’ or ‘taboo’. That they’re part of ‘being female’ and we just need to get on with things. So many of us are suffering needlessly because of this societal norm and it needs to end.
If My Wellness Journal does just 1 thing, I want it to be to give you the confidence and honestly, the fire, to open up about what you’re experiencing in your body. To your friends, your family and your health practitioners.
And ultimately, to absolutely anyone.
Bring on more period talk, I say.
Every person on this planet was born from us. Our cycles, our periods, our hormones are essential to the existence of humankind. They’re important for every single person on this planet. We should ALL be talking about cycles, not just those of us who have them.
I believe My Wellness Journal can step us in that direction.
Because your journal isn’t just for you. It will impart knowledge and empowerment that I believe will spread FROM you, to your friends, your family, your children and your community.
Hello
I’m Melissa Christie
I’m an author, PCOS fertility coach, co-host of The PCOS Girls Podcast (a top 1% podcast worldwide!), speaker, mum and a woman with PCOS and Hashimoto’s.
Me 8 years ago though? I was feeling seriously overwhelmed by my PCOS.
My cycle was super long, my chin, nose and forehead were covered in acne, my moods were OUT OF CONTROL (my husband and I seriously nearly broke up because of it) and worst of all…I miscarried our first baby. There was no more messing around, hoping for the best after that.
I needed to get organised.
And so through my grief, I trawled the internet, spoke to practitioners from all over the world, connected with my body (and actually came to love it) and found a whole community of people online who felt just like I did.
Eventually, I found the info and treatment I needed to heal. My cycle became regular, my acne cleared up, my moods stabilised and I conceived my son (and I now have a daughter as well, both conceived as soon as we began trying).
Improving my health wasn’t about luck and it wasn’t because of some random person who had a mystical “magic pill”. I had built a knowledge base, learnt things our doctors weren’t telling us, used that information to beeline my way to the treatment that would work for MY body and created tools that should have existed for us already. And I knew our community deserved better.
So I’ve been sharing everything I learnt and the ways I’ve approached my health, ever since. And it turned out you guys needed this info and these tools just as much as I did!
My Wellness Journal actually isn’t the first journal I’ve created. It was born from my first two books – both journals for people with PCOS.
Over the past 5 years, through my books, guides, podcast, social media and now fertility coaching, I have helped 1000’s of people achieve their goals like balancing their hormones, regulating their cycles and conceiving their rainbow babies.
And I’ve been featured in publications like SBS online, Good Health Magazine and Women’s Day.
From the awful experience of miscarrying my first baby, my life has taken on new purpose and I’m SO grateful for that.
My Wellness Journal holds the knowledge we all deserve to know and should have been taught in school.
Researching for this book was an incredible experince. I learnt so much that I was absolutely blown away by and I am beyond excited to share it with you.
About the illustrator..
Stephanie Crane is a graphic designer and henna artist with a passion for meaningful projects.
Along with her passion for the Australian Bush and for fighting fires, she has found her purpose in art. In creating diaries and working with amazing women to enable empowering projects.
She is the designer for the Gratitude Diary,The PCOS Journal, The Daily DOSE Daybook, and The Healing Journal.
Stephanie spends her days with her family, working by the fire with her baby, in the little cottage she built. Visit her blog at pcospathways.com/blog.