The Magic Within - Couverture rigide

Danica Gim

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1949759350 ISBN 13 : 9781949759358

Editeur : Thought Catalog Books, 2021

Synopsis

From Danica Gim — Dutch poet, illustrator, and artist with 245,000 Instagram followers whose Art Nouveau and black-figure-influenced illustrations of women of all shapes, sizes, and backgrounds have been reposted by Britney Spears, Dove Cameron, and Doutzen Kroes, and whose work is credited with inspiring a new wave of woman-centered illustrated poetry across social media.

"The Magic Within" is a 21-day guided journal — 192 hardcover pages structured around the well-established principle that three weeks of consistent practice is what it takes to build a lasting habit. The architecture is deliberate: each of the 21 sections includes a daily mental and physical check-in, daily affirmations, a gratitude practice, journal questions, and five rotating prompt types — affirmation, visualization and drawing, brain dump, letter writing, and action list — cycling through the full range of ways people actually process and reflect, not just the linear written kind.

The premise woven through every prompt is the journal's central statement: everything you've been searching for has been residing within you all along. Not as a passive reassurance, but as the organizing question of the practice — what do you already know, already sense, already carry, that you haven't yet given yourself permission to fully claim?

The body-positive illustrations throughout aren't decorative. They are Gim's artistic signature — women drawn in all forms, in the luminous style of Art Nouveau filtered through mythology and feminine energy — and they set the emotional tone the prompts then invite you to inhabit. One reader described the experience as: "She has a gift of painting words as well as pictures, so the messages seem always to be as timely as the artwork on that page. It's liberating and empowering. It helps me have clarity as I write." The same reader noted that when she finished, she ordered another — knowing her life would be in a different place, and the same pages would mean something new.

Perfect for readers who:

- Want a structured self-discovery practice with a clear beginning and end — 21 days, one section per day — rather than an open-ended blank journal that's easy to abandon
- Are drawn to the intersection of body positivity, self-worth, and creative expression — prompts that engage not just writing but visualization, drawing, and reflection
- Follow Danica Gim's work on Instagram and want to bring her art into a daily, held, interactive practice
- Are looking for a gift with both visual beauty and genuine functional depth — something that is a designed object and a practice tool simultaneously
- Are beginning a season of intentional self-work: the start of a new year, after a major transition, or any moment when building new habits of self-awareness feels timely

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Danica Gim is a self-taught, European writer and artist currently residing in the Netherlands. Her style is heavily inspired by the art movements of her continent, such as Art Nouveau and the black-figure style. In 2017 she started sharing her poetry and art on Instagram. In less than a year the account gained tens of thousands of followers worldwide, making her work famous all over the internet. Her work has been reposted by Britney Spears, Doutzen Kroes, Dove Cameron, and many others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thought Catalog Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1949759350
• ISBN 13: 9781949759358
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible