Hello lovely readers, I am back this week with a post on Mood Trackers.
This was something I used to do very differently in my old bullet journals, and it is a tracker I have updated using my mandala stencils. I have decided to create a tracker for the last four months of the year, tracking how I am feeling each day. I used a basic red/amber/green approach as it works very well to highlight to me which days I felt worse than others. I can then flick back to my daily logs and see what happened to make me feel like that.
As someone with Cyclothymia, a mild mood disorder on the bipolar spectrum, tracking my mood is an important way for me to keep an eye on myself and my feelings. But also it supports identifying potential triggers and reducing the impact these have on me by upping my self-care strategies.
As always, these are personally useful for me but there are tons and tons of mood trackers out there. If you have mental health struggles and think a mood tracker will help, there are apps, printable templates and diaries across a wide range of websites you can find by simply putting in "mood tracker" into Google. But on the flip side, if you just feel the need to track your mood for your own reasons unrelated to mental health then go for it! No time dedicated to yourself is ever wasted.
Mood Trackers for September to December 2023
Here is my layout for the next four months to track my mood. I loved using this mandala stencil (see picture below) because it gave me more sections than there are days in the month. Therefore, it's not just a mood tracker but also a colouring in session when the month is complete too! I used two washi tape for underlining titles and borders. It is a simple, creative layout that I hope will be useful for me and as always, I may change it for 2024.
Mandala Stencil used for the Mood Tracker
This is the mandala stencil I used. I drew it out using pencil initially so I was happy with the positioning within the bullet journal, before going over it in fineline pen. I coloured in sections with a black fineliner that I didn't want to use for the actual tracker. I didn't plan on that, it evolved as I created the tracker.
Blank September and October Mood Trackers
I hope this gives you some ideas for creative ways to make your own mood trackers, I cannot recommend the use of mandala stencils enough! (One day I will stop talking about them, but realistically...I don't think that day will ever come!)
Next week's blog will be a new quote log, but a slightly different type of quote to what you have seen before. If you want a sneak preview...go and keep tabs on my Instagram this week...
Thank you for reading, see you next week!
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