The Best Self-Care and Gratitude Journals For 2025

Gratitude Journal ($9, originally $17)

Unlike other guided journals, this version includes 90 days of morning meditation and evening reflections, so you can start and end your day with gratitude. Each page allows you to consider your daily focus, positive affirmations, what you're grateful for and excited about, your feelings, plus a positive thought to think about when you fall asleep. This journal is 184 pages, boasts a hardcover design, and measures 5.75 x 8.25 inches.

Self-Care Check-In: A Guided Journal to Build Healthy Habits and Devote Time to You ($9, originally $13)

As far as bestselling journals go, this self-care iteration is one of the best. The guided journal takes users through activities and prompts split up into three well-organized sections — reflect, focus, and do. The goal of the journal is to use self-care as a method to solve problems and issues plaguing us, rather than escaping them.

The Happiest Gratitude Journal ($10)

This pocket-size journal sets you up for a cheery 30-day challenge of documenting all the things you're most grateful for. Users can follow along with writing down acts of kindness and self-care sessions in real-time. And best of all: they can better practice gratitude on the go, thanks to the journal's small and compact design.

Self-Care Journal ($12, originally $17)

This 90-day hardcover journal will inspire you to commit to your self-care routine, all while encouraging healthy habits like sleeping well, eating nourishing food, getting in the habit of daily movement, and more. Plus, it promotes the habitual practice of doing other enriching things that simply bring you joy such as socializing, journaling, meditating, and expressing gratitude.

The 6-Minute Diary ($20)

Say hello to your new everyday essential! This diary features daily pages where you can take three minutes to reflect on the start of your day, and three minutes to reflect at the end. You'll focus on three things you're grateful for, how to make today great, a positive affirmation, a good deed you did that day, how you'll improve, and three things you appreciated that day. There are also weekly and monthly self-reflections. This hardcover journal also comes in a variety of fun colors like turquoise, antique pink, and more.

The Five Minute Journal ($28, originally $30)

According to this journal, all it takes is five minutes to completely re-adjust your mindset, start your day off on the right note, and get better about practicing your gratitude habits more frequently. Who knew? One PS editor even said it made her a morning person in this Five-Minute Journal product review.

Editor Quote: "Here's what my morning looks like now; I wake up, brush my teeth, and open my journal. It's a great way for me to set an intention for my day, start with gratitude, and remind myself of what's really worth prioritizing. I find that when I write down my intentions, I really am more mindful throughout the day, and I use the nighttime prompts as a way to reflect on the good, and bad, parts of my day. It truly is a five-minute (max!) commitment, and I have seen my gratitude levels markedly improve since I started using it." — India Yaffe, former associate editor, Shopping

Papier Joy Gratitude Journal ($32)

With its golden and eye-popping front cover, this gratitude journal is boosting our serotonin levels and making us feel significantly peppier — and all before we've even opened the actual journal yet. The book is filled with five months worth of entries and prompts, all geared at helping users to seek out and appreciate more mindful moments within their day to day lives.

Papier's Wellness Journal ($35)

Papier's bestselling wellness journal starts off with a kind and gentle reminder that practicing mindfulness is about practice — not perfection. The 12-week journal is filled with sections dedicated to outlining "feel-good goals," and your progress toward them, sections to jot down nourishing meals, and reflection pages.

Season Journals Everyday Positive Journal ($35)

For a journal that you can write in every day, go for this stylish gratitude journal. It features four months-worth of pages, prompts, and inspiring messages that are designed to promote self-love and help you practice mindfulness more in your day to day. One PS editor said it "transformed her mornings" in this Season Journals Everyday Positive Journal review.

Editor Quote: "If you're looking for an easy way to improve your mental wellbeing and dedicate more time to positive thinking, this daily journal is a great tool to help start you on the right track. It's modern-looking (and looks great perched on a nightstand or bookshelf), easy to fill in, and requires only two to three minutes of your day, so it's something that even the busiest individuals can practically use within their schedules." — Kyley Warren, assistant editor, Shopping

The Habit Nest Meditation Sidekick Journal ($40, originally $52)

Through insightful and educational sections about the benefits of meditation, instructions on guided meditation, and more, The Habit Nest Meditation Journal helps users expand, commit to, and document their practice. For example, the top of each page features a section where users write down how long they meditated for, how they felt after, and how they can improve their inner dialogue.

— Additional reporting by Jenny Sugar

Kyley Warren (she/her) is an award-winning writer, editor, and affiliate strategist with more than four years of experience in the publishing space. She currently works as an assistant editor on PS Shopping and is an expert on all things related to shopping and fashion. She previously worked with Entertainment Tonight as a style commerce writer, and her byline has appeared in publications globally.

Jenny Sugar is a former PS staff writer. She reports on all things fitness, but especially loves CrossFit and yoga.