Self-Care Saturday 📚

Using a Commonplace Book for Self-Care

A commonplace journal, or “commonplacing,” is a type of personal notebook or journal used to collect and organize knowledge, ideas, quotations, and reflections. Commonplace books have a long, interesting history dating back to antiquity and were especially popular during the Renaissance and early modern periods. Many important and famous people have used them.

People use commonplace journals to save information that they find to be valuable, interesting or that inspires and motivates them. It might be quotes from books, songs…