Review: Create Your Own Calm by Meera Lee Patel

Blurb

From the bestselling author of Start Where You Are, a beautifully illustrated journal for easing the everyday anxieties we all carry.

Feeling anxious, uncertain, overwhelmed? You’re not alone. In this empowering new tool for self-care, popular artist and author Meera Lee Patel presents a fresh approach to feeling better. Designed to help us better understand ourselves and dial down the everyday worries getting in our way, these thoughtful and beautifully illustrated journal pages are a safe space for reflection, self-acceptance, and the freedom to move forward with more clarity and joy. Bringing together inspiring quotes from great thinkers and writers throughout history and engaging journal prompts and plenty of room to capture your thoughts, the book is a calming breath of fresh air and a quiet space to reflect and recharge in a hectic and uncertain world.

My Review

Thank you to Kelly for organising this tour and for organising a copy of this book for me.

This book is absolutely gorgeous; the artwork and and quotes are appropriate, and the exercises are helpful and thoughtful. I love the way the artwork looks like watercolour art, which I really like for its subtlety and variation.

I like the texture of the paper used, the weight and size. For me this is important, because if I don’t like the way it feels in my hands I can’t use it. It’s also the right size to fit in the average handbag (not that I use handbags, I’m a backpack user), for calm on the move/at work/socialising etc.

Seriously considering getting copies of this book for several people I know. That’s the best compliment I can give a book.

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Meera Lee Patel is a self-taught artist and the author of Start Where You Are, Made Out of Stars, and My Friend Fear. She creates work to inspire and encourage others to connect with themselves, each other, and the world around them. She lives in the northern woods of Nashville, Tennessee.

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