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Maya Collection · Guided journals

Find the journal that fits the life you’re actually living.

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No blind purchase required. Each journal below includes a real inside preview and a downloadable sample so you can see how the practice actually works before you buy.
Notice. Choose. Return. journal coverWhat I Choose to Honor journal coverLove, With My Eyes Open journal coverRoom for All of Me journal coverGrateful Space journal cover
Three ways to use the journals

Choose the format that fits how you write.

Across the Maya Collection, editions are offered in these formats. Etsy is the source of truth for current listings and pricing.

8.5 × 11

Printable PDF

Full-color digital pages sized for printing at home or through a copy/print shop.

FULL COLOR PDF

Hyperlinked Digital Journal

For tablet annotation apps, with linked navigation that helps you move through the journal without flipping through every page.

6 × 9

Physical Print Journal

O-ring / coil-bound physical edition, produced on demand.

Notice. Choose. Return.: 6 physical copies are currently ready at $25 each. Additional physical copies can be produced on demand.

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Vision to Action in 90 Days full-color front cover 01
Vision + action90-day practice

Vision to Action in 90 Days

For turning a vision board into a route you can actually live: look back, edit, choose, make the board, take a workable step, and review what changed over 90 days.

Use it when…

  • You can see the life you want, but you need a practical next route.
  • Your vision board has too many directions competing at once.
  • You want checkpoints that let you revise the plan instead of treating change as failure.

What the practice does

Moves through Look Back → Edit → Notice → Decide → Board Day → Read the Board → Choose → Capacity Check → Move, followed by weekly check-ins and 30/60/90-day reviews.

Real-life use case: “I have several things I want this year. I need one 90-day direction, a first step, and permission to adjust after real life answers back.”
8.5 × 11
Printable PDFFull-color pages for home or copy-shop printing.
PDF
Hyperlinked Digital JournalFull-color PDF with linked navigation for tablet annotation apps.
6 × 9
Physical Print JournalO-ring / coil-bound edition, available on demand.
Preview inside

Maya example + 3 practice pages

Vision to Action is route-led rather than comic-led. Its sample uses a real Maya example page plus three working pages from the journal.

Download 4-page sample ↓
Vision to Action in 90 Days — Maya’s board example
Maya’s board example
Vision to Action in 90 Days — Look back: what actually happened?
Look back: what actually happened?
Vision to Action in 90 Days — Capacity check
Capacity check
Vision to Action in 90 Days — Weekly route / review
Weekly route / review

Sample pages are excerpts from the journal. They are not the full purchased edition.

Notice. Choose. Return. full-color front cover 02
Self-awarenessPractice + evidence

Notice. Choose. Return.

A guided practice for real-life moments: notice what happened, sort what you know from what you added, choose a response, try it, and return with evidence.

Use it when…

  • The same kind of moment keeps producing the same reaction.
  • You want to slow down one situation without turning it into a verdict on yourself.
  • You want a journaling method you can eventually carry into any notebook.

What the practice does

Uses the five-step loop Notice → Sort → Choose → Try → Return. The prompts deliberately become lighter as the practice becomes yours.

Real-life use case: “Something happened, my mind finished the story immediately, and I want to separate the facts, my interpretation, and the next move I can actually test.”
8.5 × 11
Printable PDFFull-color pages for home or copy-shop printing.
PDF
Hyperlinked Digital JournalFull-color PDF with linked navigation for tablet annotation apps.
6 × 9
Physical Print JournalO-ring / coil-bound edition, available on demand.
6 physical copies ready now · $25 eachAdditional physical copies are available on demand.
Preview inside

1 comic + 3 practice pages

The sample begins with “One moment, several layers,” then moves into observation, evidence, and a small experiment.

Download 4-page sample ↓
Notice. Choose. Return. — Comic: One moment, several layers
Comic: One moment, several layers
Notice. Choose. Return. — Practice: What would a camera capture?
Practice: What would a camera capture?
Notice. Choose. Return. — Practice: What supports this thought?
Practice: What supports this thought?
Notice. Choose. Return. — Practice: One small experiment
Practice: One small experiment

Sample pages are excerpts from the journal. They are not the full purchased edition.

What Matters Most full-color front cover 03
Daily self-leadershipPlan · Reflect · Return

What Matters Most

For daily priorities, practical planning, and reflection on how the day actually went—without requiring every day to become a deep personal-development project.

Use it when…

  • Your day fills up before you decide what matters.
  • You want one side to begin the day and one side to notice what happened.
  • You need a planner that can hold priorities, capacity, work, life, and unfinished thoughts together.

What the practice does

Uses undated daily spreads, periodic check-ins, and reusable reset tools to help you plan, live the day, notice the evidence, and carry forward what is useful.

Real-life use case: “I have eight legitimate things competing for today. I want to choose the one to three that matter most before urgency chooses for me.”
8.5 × 11
Printable PDFFull-color pages for home or copy-shop printing.
PDF
Hyperlinked Digital JournalFull-color PDF with linked navigation for tablet annotation apps.
6 × 9
Physical Print JournalO-ring / coil-bound edition, available on demand.
Preview inside

Daily spread + 3 inside tools

What Matters Most is a daily self-leadership journal rather than a comic-led journal. The sample shows the actual daily rhythm and reusable tools.

Download 4-page sample ↓
What Matters Most — Daily self-leadership spread
Daily self-leadership spread
What Matters Most — Quick notes / reset tool
Quick notes / reset tool
What Matters Most — Carry it forward
Carry it forward
What Matters Most — Open thought map
Open thought map

Sample pages are excerpts from the journal. They are not the full purchased edition.

Love, With My Eyes Open full-color front cover 04
Love + discernmentMaya in Love

Love, With My Eyes Open

For seeing, choosing, and participating in love with tenderness and evidence: attraction, care, reciprocity, voice, agreements, hurt and repair, endings, and hope.

Use it when…

  • You are dating or partnered and want to look clearly without turning the relationship into a scorecard.
  • You are sorting care, planning, reciprocity, boundaries, repair, or future movement.
  • Something ended and you want to honor what was real while keeping your own life available.

What the practice does

Brings one real moment at a time: separate what you know, find your part, try one proportionate practice, and return to what happened.

Real-life use case: “We care about each other. I also want to look at what our ordinary choices, agreements, repair, and follow-through are actually showing me.”
8.5 × 11
Printable PDFFull-color pages for home or copy-shop printing.
PDF
Hyperlinked Digital JournalFull-color PDF with linked navigation for tablet annotation apps.
6 × 9
Physical Print JournalO-ring / coil-bound edition, available on demand.
Preview inside

1 comic + 3 practice pages

The sample shows an actual Maya relationship scene followed by pages that turn the scene into discernment and practice.

Download 4-page sample ↓
Love, With My Eyes Open — Comic: What love means to me
Comic: What love means to me
Love, With My Eyes Open — Practice: Receiving and offering
Practice: Receiving and offering
Love, With My Eyes Open — Practice: How does effort move?
Practice: How does effort move?
Love, With My Eyes Open — Practice: Choose the action I control
Practice: Choose the action I control

Sample pages are excerpts from the journal. They are not the full purchased edition.

Room to Breathe full-color front cover 05
Capacity + recoveryWorkable pace

Room to Breathe

For capacity, burnout, support, recovery, and the conditions that make life sustainable—not another instruction to rest harder inside an unchanged load.

Use it when…

  • Your calendar technically fits, but you do not.
  • You keep recovering just enough to return to the same drain.
  • You need to decide whether the adjustment belongs in you, the commitment, the support, or the system.

What the practice does

Looks at demands, warning signs, invisible coordination, requests, handoffs, recovery, repair, and what can actually fit before another yes is added.

Real-life use case: “I can technically do this. I need to know what it will cost, what it will displace, and what support or structural change the load actually requires.”
8.5 × 11
Printable PDFFull-color pages for home or copy-shop printing.
PDF
Hyperlinked Digital JournalFull-color PDF with linked navigation for tablet annotation apps.
6 × 9
Physical Print JournalO-ring / coil-bound edition, available on demand.
Preview inside

1 comic + 3 practice pages

The sample pairs a Maya capacity scene with independent-practice pages you can use again later.

Download 4-page sample ↓
Room to Breathe — Comic / capacity scene
Comic / capacity scene
Room to Breathe — Practice: What can actually fit?
Practice: What can actually fit?
Room to Breathe — Practice: Make contacting support easier
Practice: Make contacting support easier
Room to Breathe — Practice: Keep, adjust, or seek more help
Practice: Keep, adjust, or seek more help

Sample pages are excerpts from the journal. They are not the full purchased edition.

What I Choose to Honor full-color front cover 06
Values + trade-offsDecision practice

What I Choose to Honor

For values that have to survive contact with real life: worthwhile choices, inherited rules, competing priorities, costs, limited resources, and practical pathways.

Use it when…

  • Two good things are competing for the same time, money, or energy.
  • You know your values in theory but need to see what they ask of an actual decision.
  • You are questioning an inherited rule without assuming every old practice needs to be rejected.

What the practice does

Moves from meaningful moments into working values, ten candidates, five anchors, seasonal priorities, trade-offs, decision authority, and small observable expressions of what matters.

Real-life use case: “Both options are worthwhile. I cannot maximize both. What am I choosing to honor in this season, and what will that choice cost?”
8.5 × 11
Printable PDFFull-color pages for home or copy-shop printing.
PDF
Hyperlinked Digital JournalFull-color PDF with linked navigation for tablet annotation apps.
6 × 9
Physical Print JournalO-ring / coil-bound edition, available on demand.
Preview inside

1 comic + 3 practice pages

The sample starts with a Maya scene about competing worthwhile choices, then moves into your own values practice.

Download 4-page sample ↓
What I Choose to Honor — Comic: The values I actually live
Comic: The values I actually live
What I Choose to Honor — Practice: Bring a day of my own
Practice: Bring a day of my own
What I Choose to Honor — Practice: Try one small expression
Practice: Try one small expression
What I Choose to Honor — Practice: Return with evidence
Practice: Return with evidence

Sample pages are excerpts from the journal. They are not the full purchased edition.

Close, Without Disappearing full-color front cover 07
Boundaries + belongingVoice in connection

Close, Without Disappearing

For staying connected without leaving your preferences, limits, disagreement, or voice outside the relationship.

Use it when…

  • You need to say no, ask, disagree, or name a limit without disappearing from the relationship.
  • You want to distinguish preference, request, agreement, responsibility, and boundary.
  • You want closeness without automatic self-erasure or unlimited access.

What the practice does

Uses scenes, evidence, boundary language, belonging questions, and return pages to help you stay present to yourself while remaining in relationship where connection is workable.

Real-life use case: “I care about this person and I want something different within the relationship. What is mine to say, choose, ask for, or limit?”
8.5 × 11
Printable PDFFull-color pages for home or copy-shop printing.
PDF
Hyperlinked Digital JournalFull-color PDF with linked navigation for tablet annotation apps.
6 × 9
Physical Print JournalO-ring / coil-bound edition, available on demand.
Preview inside

1 comic + 3 practice pages

The sample shows an actual Maya boundary scene and three practice pages that move from observation to a workable response.

Download 4-page sample ↓
Close, Without Disappearing — Comic / boundary scene
Comic / boundary scene
Close, Without Disappearing — Practice: Bring my own moment
Practice: Bring my own moment
Close, Without Disappearing — Practice: Boundary / belonging practice
Practice: Boundary / belonging practice
Close, Without Disappearing — Practice: Return / evidence
Practice: Return / evidence

Sample pages are excerpts from the journal. They are not the full purchased edition.

The Promises I Keep full-color front cover 08
AccountabilitySelf-trust + repair

The Promises I Keep

For accountability without perfectionism: making realistic commitments, preparing the next action, updating early, repairing when needed, and keeping evidence of return.

Official circle companion

The official journal companion to the Becoming a Woman Who Keeps Her Word Accountability Circle.

Use it when…

  • You keep making promises that collapse when real life shows up.
  • You missed a commitment and need to decide whether to keep, change, release, or repair it.
  • Someone else was relying on you and your journal needs to prepare you for follow-through—not replace it.

What the practice does

Makes the promise observable, checks capacity, prepares the start, identifies stopping points, separates record from verdict, supports early updates, and follows repair through to evidence.

Real-life use case: “I missed. I do not need an identity verdict. I need an accurate record, the next responsible move, and a way back.”
8.5 × 11
Printable PDFFull-color pages for home or copy-shop printing.
PDF
Hyperlinked Digital JournalFull-color PDF with linked navigation for tablet annotation apps.
6 × 9
Physical Print JournalO-ring / coil-bound edition, available on demand.
Preview inside

1 comic + 3 practice pages

The sample starts with a Maya promise scene, then shows pages for clarification, sizing the promise, and repair.

Download 4-page sample ↓
The Promises I Keep — Comic: Define the promise
Comic: Define the promise
The Promises I Keep — Practice: Bring a real situation
Practice: Bring a real situation
The Promises I Keep — Practice: Test the offer
Practice: Test the offer
The Promises I Keep — Practice: Repair / follow-through
Practice: Repair / follow-through

Sample pages are excerpts from the journal. They are not the full purchased edition.

What I Carry Forward full-color front cover 09
Loss + transitionChanging seasons

What I Carry Forward

For loss and transition that changed the map: what changed, what remains meaningful, what is unfinished, and what you want to carry into the life that is here now.

Use it when…

  • A relationship, role, place, routine, or expected future changed.
  • You are holding more than one feeling and do not need to force a lesson or a clean ending.
  • You want to make room for ordinary life without pretending the loss no longer matters.

What the practice does

Names the change at its actual size, gives multiple feelings room, works with changed routines, memory, unfinished questions, other people, and the life that continues through changing seasons.

Real-life use case: “The future I expected is gone. I do not need to design the rest of my life tonight. I need somewhere honest to put what changed and what still belongs with me.”
8.5 × 11
Printable PDFFull-color pages for home or copy-shop printing.
PDF
Hyperlinked Digital JournalFull-color PDF with linked navigation for tablet annotation apps.
6 × 9
Physical Print JournalO-ring / coil-bound edition, available on demand.
Preview inside

1 comic + 3 practice pages

The sample begins with an actual Maya transition comic, then shows pages for naming change, holding more than one truth, and trying a small adjustment.

Download 4-page sample ↓
What I Carry Forward — Comic: I’m Glad It’s Over. I’m Sad It’s Gone.
Comic: I’m Glad It’s Over. I’m Sad It’s Gone.
What I Carry Forward — Practice: What changed for me
Practice: What changed for me
What I Carry Forward — Practice: Make room for two truths
Practice: Make room for two truths
What I Carry Forward — Practice: Try one small adjustment
Practice: Try one small adjustment

Sample pages are excerpts from the journal. They are not the full purchased edition.

Room for All of Me full-color front cover 10
Self-integrationPrivacy + expression

Room for All of Me

For the parts of yourself you hide, manage, minimize, or misunderstand—without requiring every feeling to be displayed, obeyed, diagnosed, or turned into your whole identity.

Use it when…

  • You keep editing out a feeling, need, desire, pride, anger, tenderness, ambition, or wish before you can examine it.
  • You want to understand the difference between chosen privacy and automatic self-concealment.
  • You need language for acknowledging a part of yourself while still choosing limits and values-based action.

What the practice does

Uses the ROOM invitation: Recognize what surfaced → Observe its history and purpose → Offer it a rightful place → Move as the whole self. The journal repeatedly separates a feeling or desire from the behavior you choose.

Real-life use case: “Part of me wants this, feels this, or needs this. I want to acknowledge that honestly without handing that part the whole house.”
8.5 × 11
Printable PDFFull-color pages for home or copy-shop printing.
PDF
Hyperlinked Digital JournalFull-color PDF with linked navigation for tablet annotation apps.
6 × 9
Physical Print JournalO-ring / coil-bound edition, available on demand.
Preview inside

1 complete comic + 3 practice pages

The opening comic spans two pages, so the downloadable sample is five pages total: the complete two-page comic plus three practice pages.

Download 5-page sample ↓
Room for All of Me — Comic: The Version People Receive
Comic: The Version People Receive
Room for All of Me — Practice: Different rooms, different access
Practice: Different rooms, different access
Room for All of Me — Practice: What the edit was doing
Practice: What the edit was doing
Room for All of Me — Practice: Three ways to make room
Practice: Three ways to make room

Sample pages are excerpts from the journal. They are not the full purchased edition.

Grateful Space full-color front cover 11
Gratitude + noticingOpen rhythm

Grateful Space

A place to notice what is already here: ordinary good, particular kindnesses, moments of receiving, and details you want to remember—without a compulsory streak or positivity test.

Use it when…

  • You want a gratitude practice that does not require a daily score or perfect consistency.
  • You want to record ordinary good without pretending difficulty is not also true.
  • You want a page for small details, people, receiving, comfort, and moments worth keeping.

What the practice does

Uses 50 invitations across ten themes, including Here, Ordinary Good, People, This Life I Already Have, Enough, Receiving, Save This, and When Life Isn’t Good. Start anywhere and return when you wish.

Real-life use case: “Today was difficult. Something warm, useful, or quietly meaningful was also here. I want to notice it without making the good argue with the hard part.”
8.5 × 11
Printable PDFFull-color pages for home or copy-shop printing.
PDF
Hyperlinked Digital JournalFull-color PDF with linked navigation for tablet annotation apps.
6 × 9
Physical Print JournalO-ring / coil-bound edition, available on demand.
Preview inside

Opening page + 3 practice pages

Grateful Space is prompt-led rather than comic-led. The sample shows the welcome philosophy and three actual invitations from the current proof.

Download 4-page sample ↓
Grateful Space — Welcome: A place for what you notice
Welcome: A place for what you notice
Grateful Space — Practice: A small arrival
Practice: A small arrival
Grateful Space — Practice: Something that worked
Practice: Something that worked
Grateful Space — Practice: A moment to keep
Practice: A moment to keep

Sample pages are excerpts from the journal. They are not the full purchased edition.

Collection at a glance

Eleven journals. Eleven different jobs.

Use this as the quick map when you know you want to write but are not sure which practice fits.

01

Vision to Action in 90 Days

For turning a vision board into a route you can actually live

See this journal →
02

Notice. Choose. Return.

A guided practice for real-life moments

See this journal →
03

What Matters Most

For daily priorities, practical planning, and reflection on how the day actually went—without requiring every day to become a deep personal-development project.

See this journal →
04

Love, With My Eyes Open

For seeing, choosing, and participating in love with tenderness and evidence

See this journal →
05

Room to Breathe

For capacity, burnout, support, recovery, and the conditions that make life sustainable—not another instruction to rest harder inside an unchanged load.

See this journal →
06

What I Choose to Honor

For values that have to survive contact with real life

See this journal →
07

Close, Without Disappearing

For staying connected without leaving your preferences, limits, disagreement, or voice outside the relationship.

See this journal →
08

The Promises I Keep

For accountability without perfectionism

See this journal →
09

What I Carry Forward

For loss and transition that changed the map

See this journal →
10

Room for All of Me

For the parts of yourself you hide, manage, minimize, or misunderstand—without requiring every feeling to be displayed, obeyed, diagnosed, or turned into your whole identity.

See this journal →
11

Grateful Space

A place to notice what is already here

See this journal →
How to use the collection

You are not supposed to finish the whole shelf.

The collection exists so a different question can have a different tool. Choose what serves this season.

1

Start with the question.

Choose the situation you actually want to work on—not the idea that you should own every title.

2

Preview before you buy.

Every title here includes real inside pages. Download the sample, read the prompts, and decide whether the journal’s way of working fits you.

3

Choose your format.

Print the 8.5 × 11 PDF, use the hyperlinked PDF on a tablet, or order the 6 × 9 O-ring / coil-bound physical journal.