Hello Leslie Creative Self-care, new beginnings & solo travel

On paper

The journals

Paperbacks with guided prompts, gentle structure, and room to be completely honest.

Leslieann smiling and holding up her journal Nurturing Your Soul: A Guide to Practicing Self-Care
The Mindful Journey Journal by Leslieann, a cream paperback with torn-paper edges on a warm linen surface

The Mindful Journey Journal

Daily inspiration and prompts for the mornings you want to begin again.

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Nurturing Your Soul by Leslieann, a self-care workbook and journal with hand-lettered cover art

Nurturing Your Soul

A workbook for actually looking after yourself. Not someday, this week.

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New · Printable PDF

You're Becoming: The 30-Day Journal

Finished the free seven days? Keep going with four weeks of honest prompts, daily affirmations and weekly check-ins. 42 pages to print at home or write on a tablet.

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Travel

A slower life abroad

Trinidad & Tobago is home. Grenada is my parents' island, where I spent a birthday driving through nearly every parish with my aunt.

Want to go yourself? My favourite Caribbean destinations are collected in my travel shop, and the tours and excursions I'd choose are in one place, so you can book your next trip with confidence.

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The journal

Reflections, letters, affirmations and the odd travel entry. The twelve most recent are here. Find the one for your season in all posts.

Reflection·5 min read

45 and Still Writing the Story

There’s a particular kind of birthday that makes you pause, not because you feel old, but because you finally have enough runway behind you to look back and see the shape of things. Turning 45 is one of those birthdays for me.

Travel·3 min read

Choosing Peace: My Journey Toward a New Life Abroad

I’ve been thinking lately: what if I left the U.S. behind and returned to a life more aligned with my roots, where both the ocean and my soul feel at home? As someone born in Trinidad…

Reflection·2 min read

Why I’m Done Playing Small

I’ve been laid off. I’ve faced major family disappointments. I’ve battled depression. And yet, I’m still here. Not just surviving, but rebuilding, piece by piece, step by step.

Travel·3 min read

Discovering Grenada: My Birthday Adventure

This September, I decided to spend my birthday somewhere special: Grenada. It was my first time visiting, and as someone who grew up in Trinidad and Tobago, I wasn’t quite sure what to…

Reflection·3 min read

Healing Takes Time

The truth is, I’ve been sitting with a lot, more than I ever expected to have to process. Life, in its unpredictable way, threw me a major curveball.

Reflection·2 min read

Mental Health Awareness

I wanted to briefly talk about Mental Health Awareness. May is Mental Health Awareness.

Reflection·2 min read

Who Am I?

Turning 40 is a big deal! For most people, it’s a milestone age, others find it daunting. Your “subjective evaluation of your worth as a person” is only going to get better with age.

Writing·3 min read

In Honor of World Storytelling Day

Since I’ve started this blog a few years ago, the topics I chose to write about has been random and free flowing.

New Beginnings·2 min read

New Year, Same Me

As the new year begins, many of us take the opportunity to reflect on the past year and set goals for the year ahead.

Affirmations·2 min read

I Face the Day With Anticipation and Interest

I sometimes wonder what this day has in store for me. Each morning fills me with excitement and interest about what might transpire that day. Life is fascinating.

Read all 41 posts, 2016–2026

The business side

What I'm learning, building it myself

The honest side of the story: what it's really like to build a creative life on my own terms, and everything I'm figuring out as I go.

Soul Care·2 min read

Rest Is Not a Reward for Finishing

I used to earn my rest, and I was always short. Now I schedule it first, and the work somehow still gets done.

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