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REFLECT: Your Year in Review Journal

When you learn to listen to your own story, everything changes.

This isn’t just a book—it’s a sacred conversation with yourself.

An invitation to sit down with the year that’s passing and ask: What did this season teach me? What do I need to carry forward? What am I finally ready to release?

Reflect is your personal retreat—an experience of questions to help you reset. Because some years demand to be examined, some seasons need to be honoured before they can be released. And 2020 changed everything—which means we need more than superficial reflection; we need deep clarity and genuine insight.

Are you ready to say goodbye to this year with intention and purpose?

For nearly two decades, Amanda Viviers has asked herself the same set of questions to frame each passing season. Looking back across her answers, she can trace patterns and insights that have guided her forward. Each year becomes a letter to her future self—a record of growth, change, and hard-won wisdom.

Now she’s gathered those questions for you.

These reflection prompts are designed for solo journaling or shared exploration with a friend or partner. There are no wrong answers, only the ones that appear as you write. And what emerges—the clarity, the release, the redirection—can be profound.

Find a beautiful vista. Order something special to drink. Give yourself the gift of reflection. Whether you’re closing out a difficult year, marking the end of a significant season, or standing at the threshold of something new, sitting down with pen and paper creates the potential for transformation.

When we learn to listen to our own stories, everything changes.

This workbook is designed to be a perfect compendium for a self-guided personal retreat. Use this hashtag to see others taking a day this New Year to retreat, also #FutureRetreating

BONUS: Join Amanda’s private Facebook community for ongoing encouragement and clarity coaching.

Amanda Viviers is an accredited Journal Therapy Coach, award-winning communications leader, and author of 15 books. After 25 years helping organisations tell their stories—including leading 160+ staff at Compassion Australasia—she now creates retreat spaces where women discover their own. Currently completing her Master of Arts in Divinity, Amanda believes the pen is both a healing tool and an act of reclamation. She facilitates retreats internationally and co-founded the Kinwomen radio program.

HOW TO USE THIS RETREAT GUIDE:

The Full Retreat Experience (Recommended):
1. Block off 4-6 hours between Christmas and New Year
2. Go somewhere that feels like a retreat—a café, the beach, a quiet park, your favourite chair with the door closed
3. Bring this workbook, your favourite pen, and a drink that feels nourishing
4. Turn off your phone (seriously—this is sacred time)
5. Work through the prompts at your own pace, following your intuition about what needs attention
6. End with a list of things you are grateful for
7. Close with a prayer, a walk, or simply sitting in silence

The Shorter Version:
If you can’t carve out a full day, take 2-3 hours—even 90 minutes matters. Quality of presence beats quantity of time.

If you need Amanda to come alongside you for $127, you can have a private coaching hour with Amanda to help you use these tools with accountability.

The Ongoing Version:
Some people return to sections of this workbook throughout January or even into spring to reconnect with their intentions. There’s no wrong way to use it.

Join the Community:
Use the hashtag #FutureRetreating to connect with others taking a day this season to retreat. Share your favourite café spot, your insights, or simply the fact that you showed up for yourself and join Amanda’s Facebook group: HERE

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:

“During the past few Christmas and festive seasons, I’ve taken the time to work through several of Amanda’s workbooks. This year, Seeking Clarity has allowed me to take time out, reflect and reset for the New Year. December can be a challenging time when I can feel overwhelmed and exhausted by running a small business, and the responsibilities of having young children can be demanding. With Clarity, I’ve been able to see all I have achieved this year and refocus on what’s really important. Thank you, Amanda. Seeking Clarity has helped me bring time, space and joy back into my days.”
—Brooke Whitmore

“I purchased one of the end-of-year workbooks, not really understanding how significant an impact going through the workbook would be for me. The highlight of the purchase, though, was Amanda offering a 1-hour online session for 6 weeks to meet with her and other people who purchased the workbook, and to go through it together, page by page, helping me, encouraging me to reflect on my year and notice what I have learnt about myself…..good and bad! To have a go at journaling and assuring me there is no right or wrong way to write what comes out; it’s my story! I don’t have to write it perfectly, just write.Thank you, Amanda! I have loved it. You have gently challenged me to write/journal my story.
Here’s to my next chapter.”
— Jenny Hastings

“Amanda – thank you for this sacred and beautiful space you create for each of us to enter into as we close each year.
2024 has been a year, so I was initially apprehensive about reflecting on it, but it was such a beautiful and hopeful time.
Thank you”
— Jac Wraight

“Amanda, this resource is such a gift. Thank you for making and distributing a reflective tool that gently brings to account the season we have been in as well as plans for the season to come. I love that this journal is one that I can continue to pick up and add to as time, events & circumstances arise. I loved the reflecting sheets as they were great for processing what took place last year. Your creativity is such a blessing.”
— Kate Green

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FINE PRINT:

This is a digital product. Nothing will be mailed. Check your junk folder if you don’t receive your download email within 5 minutes. You can also access downloads from your account page. Each license is valid for personal use only (one person). For group licensing, retreat facilitation, or bulk orders: info@amandaviviers.com

 

reflect includes:

• 60 pages of journaling questions and space to write.
• This is not a physical product it delivers digitally.

This end-of-year retreat process has been refined and published for the last 6 years by Amanda Viviers. It is an annual publication.

*This is an annual process that has been published for 7 years; each download has different articles and creative exercises, but some of the questions are the same because of the cyclical nature of the process. Other publications with similar questions and different articles Dear Future Self, Begin Again, Pause, New Days and Gentle Rhythms.

As the waters reflect face to face, so the heart of a person reflects.

Proverb 27: 19