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An Eight-Week Guided Journal

Most people are fluent in what is missing, and rusty at noticing the abundance already quietly here.

This journal is not asking you to feel grateful on command. The Abundance I Overlook is an eight-week guided journal built to ask something narrower and more honest: to notice, specifically, what is already here, before deciding it does not count.

Each day, you name one good, ordinary thing, pause long enough to actually feel it, and finish one honest sentence: today, I have an abundance of… Over eight themed weeks — the senses that serve you, the people already here, small comforts, the skills you already have, problems that resolved themselves, an ordinary good day, the small joys you get to repeat, and the abundance right now — what quietly works stops going unnoticed.

Front cover of The Abundance I Overlook, an eight-week guided journal by The Inner Listener
The Abundance I Overlook is out now.

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A day in the journal

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Week 1, day 3 · an example entry

The good

The first cup of tea, still warm on the windowsill.

Feel it

I held it in both hands and noticed the heat in my palms.

Today, I have an abundance of…

Quiet mornings.

An illustration written for this page. It is not a reader’s own entry.

What is inside

  • Eight themed weeks: The Senses That Serve Me, The People Already Here, The Small Comforts, The Skills I Already Have, The Problems That Resolved Themselves, The Ordinary Good Day, The Small Joys I Get to Repeat, and The Abundance Right Now
  • A daily rhythm of The Good, Feel It, and The Abundance — three lines a day
  • A look-back review after every week, plus an Eight-Week Overview and Final Review at the back
  • A closing reflection: Abundance Was Already Here
  • Blank pages throughout for anything a prompt brings up that needs more room

One page. Three lines. Abundance, felt.

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After this journal

If you would like to keep going, here are two natural next steps.

Everything I Noticed And Never Said

Once you are noticing what is good, you can point that attention at one person. This 45-day journal is kept in secret about someone you love, then given to them.

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The Open Hand

If wanting more is what keeps you from noticing enough, The Open Hand is a month of catching the squeezing, feeding and chasing, and practising loosening it.

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