Jog On Journal: A Practical Guide to Getting Up and Running by Bella Mackie - Non Fiction - Paperback

Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780008370039
Publisher: William Collins
Age Range: Adult / General Readership

Overview
Jog On Journal is the essential, interactive companion to Bella Mackie's Sunday Times bestselling memoir Jog On. This brand-new paperback guides nervous beginners and seasoned runners alike through practical exercises, mood trackers and honest reflection prompts, helping readers use movement as a genuine tool for managing anxiety, low mood and everyday stress, one step and one page at a time.

About the Book
Bella Mackie isn't your average fitness coach. She's frank, funny, occasionally sweary, and refreshingly uninterested in nutrition plans or marathon PBs. Instead, this journal draws on her own hard-won experience of using running to manage anxiety and depression, translating it into a structured, judgment-free toolkit anyone can pick up from the sofa. Across 256 pages, readers are guided from their very first tentative steps outside through to building a sustainable, realistic running habit, with prompts designed to build both physical confidence and emotional resilience. Inside, the journal helps readers gain a new awareness of mental health difficulties such as anxiety and depression, cope with side effects like panic attacks and intrusive thoughts, and learn calming strategies including breathing exercises. Practical checklists cover everything needed to get started, while flexible weekly planning pages support a realistic running schedule built around the reader's own targets, not someone else's. Packed with insights drawn from athletes and psychologists, the journal balances genuine encouragement with honest acknowledgement of how hard starting can be, making it feel achievable rather than intimidating. It sits perfectly alongside Mackie's original memoir but works equally well as a standalone gift for anyone wanting to try running for their wellbeing rather than their waistline.

• Guided, judgment-free prompts that turn good intentions into an actual, sustainable running habit.
• Mood and progress trackers to notice mental wellbeing improvements alongside physical ones.
• Realistic weekly planning pages rather than punishing training schedules.
• Warm, funny, expletive-laden voice from a bestselling author who has been candid about her own anxiety.
• Compact paperback format, easy to slip into a bag or keep bedside for daily check-ins.

About the Author
Bella Mackie is a journalist and author whose Sunday Times bestselling memoir Jog On charted her own journey from anxiety and agoraphobia to running as a coping tool. She has written for The Guardian, Vogue and Vice, and her debut novel How to Kill Your Family was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. In 2023 she judged the Women's Prize for Fiction, and her work has been shortlisted for the British Book Awards.

Why You'll Love This Journal
Honest, funny and refreshingly free of diet culture, Jog On Journal turns exercise into a genuine act of self-care. It's the ideal gift for anxious beginners, returning runners, or anyone who wants encouragement without judgment.

Please Note: Cover shown is the UK edition; ISBN and edition may vary slightly from images but content matches the UK paperback as listed.