NAME IT FIRST

Journal

The Name It First Writing Journal

A companion journal for every book in the catalog

The workbook asked. This journal gives you room to answer.

This is for:

For anyone working through a Name It First workbook who wants additional writing space, journals alongside structured work, or processes best in longform writing.

You'll produce:your Your Writing Journal

The Name It First Experience

Every workbook in the Name It First catalog asks questions worth answering fully. This journal gives you the space to do that — keyed to any workbook in the series, designed to hold whatever needs more room than the page allows. Your Writing Journal extends the work you are already doing. The output is not a blank journal. It is a completed writing companion organized around the workbook you are working through.

You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.

Sample questions

  1. What do you most need to write down right now?
  2. What are you still thinking about from your last structured reflection session?
  3. What question would you ask yourself right now if you had all the space in the world to answer it?
  4. What have you been carrying that hasn't had a place to land?

Research basis

Pennebaker expressive writing research / journaling as therapeutic tool / reflective writing and insight retention studies / narrative therapy (White, Epston)

Choose your format.

Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.

Print Paperbackpersonalize

A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.

$16.99

eBook + journal

The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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Audiobook

We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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Hardcoverpersonalize

The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.

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Digital Fill + membership+membership

Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

$7.99

Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership

Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

Not available

Everything packages

The Paperback Everything Package

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The Hardcover Everything Package

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The Premium Hardcover Everything Package

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Choose your pace.

The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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