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Nina Kavagiola aka Balconina.

Join in weekly as she walks alongside you to navigate topics around motherhood, mental health, self-love, and relationships.

The good, bad, and funny. I think journaling is so important.

Actually I know it's important.

There's a lot of evidence in research out there that says that journaling can

literally help heal your mental health struggles and I'm still so bad at doing it

I feel like it's one of those impossible tasks like you know you want to do it you know it

makes you feel good but the moment between that and then doing it is like

feels impossible to get to. I'm talking to Katie Wood today about journaling. She actually

wrote a journal for kids ages 5 to 13 and I'm mind-blown. I'm so

excited about this episode because I left the interview being so inspired to buy a journal for Dominic.

Dominic is my almost five-year-old and he's going to love this.

She wrote the simple seed and basically in this episode we talk about the importance of practicing

gratitude and positive self-talk like I am statements I also think it's just so

important to start teaching our kids at a very young age how important it is to slow down and be aware of your

thoughts, your body, your mind, and just like practice gratitude.

I don't remember ever being taught to slow down. So let's jump in.

Katie, thank you so much for being here today. I'm so excited to talk about gratitude and journaling and just like feeding our kids the knowledge of slowing down and the importance of just being present.

Would you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Yeah, well, thank you for having me.

It's such an honor to be here.

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