Spiritual Workbook for Women — When Releasing What You Were Never Meant to Carry Again

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You are finally ready to stop carrying something you were never supposed to carry this long.

Spiritual Workbook for Women

When Releasing What You Were Never Meant to Carry Again

A daily place to put down what has been weighing on you without naming itself.

A 140-Day Reflective Devotional Journal

Book 12 of a 36-journal series · 140 daily reflections · 5,040 guided prompts across the series

  • 140 daily reflections
  • Scripture + guided journaling space
  • Written for adult women
  • Five honest minutes a day
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Why this is different

Most devotionals

  • Inspiration to read
  • Reading only
  • Generic encouragement
  • Read once, then forgotten

This journal

  • A daily practice you actually do
  • Reflection + Scripture + writing space
  • Written specifically for adult women
  • 140 steady days that build over time

Who it's for

This is for

  • The woman whose arms are tired and whose heart is finally willing to let go.
  • Anyone who wants structure without pressure
  • Small groups, church families & gift-givers

This is not for

  • Anyone wanting a quick, read-once motivational book
  • Readers who don't want to write anything down
  • Those after a study guide without daily reflection

An established series

36journals in the series
140days in each
5,040guided reflections
5–10minutes a day

Part of a growing library of guided devotional journals from Stilling Waves Press.

About this journal

The full story, in our own words

A 140-day daily practice for the woman who is ready to set down what she has been holding for too long.

For Adult Women — Forgiveness & Letting Go. Each day sits beside a quoted line from a Christian writer across the centuries — kept in their own voice, with a quiet word-gloss underneath so the older language opens rather than closes.

  • A daily place to put down what has been weighing on you without naming itself.
  • Five honest minutes a day — just enough to start handing things over.
  • For the woman whose arms are tired, and whose heart is finally willing to let go.

Seven stages across 140 days: Stage 1 — A New Beginning — Where You Are · Stage 2 — Giving It Over · Stage 3 — The Walk · Stage 4 — Staying When It Is Hard — The Middle · Stage 5 — Drawing Near — The Season · Stage 6 — Quietly Giving · Stage 7 — Whole and Present.

This is grace for purpose morning prayers done daily — five honest minutes in plain English, with every older line gently glossed.

Inside these pages you will also find:

  • Seven daily elements, every pageOpening, Reflect, Rest, Today's Focus, Touch, a quoted Scripture or Christian writer with a plain-English gloss, and a closing Meditation — one steady rhythm you learn once and return to for 140 days.
  • Voices of trusted Christian writers, named and attributed — every quoted line carries its source — classic devotional and contemplative writers across the centuries — drawn from a curated corpus and selected to fit each journal's particular shape. No anonymous quotations.
  • Every older line opened underneath — Scripture in the King James Version and classic Christian prose come with a plain-English word gloss directly under each quote — thy, thee, unto, communion — nothing stays out of reach.
  • Real interludes between each sectionCommentary, Poem, A Prayer for This Season, and a closing Reflection sit between each of the seven sections — full devotional rhythm, not just dividers.
  • Written prayers from great writers — and space for your own — selected prayers from saints and faithful authors carry you forward, with A Prayer for This Season pages for your own words to come.
  • A poem for every section — short, unhurried passages that carry the stage's feeling without preaching — small enough to remember, deep enough to return to.

Sample prompt: "What are you holding today that is not yours to keep carrying?"

Most journals quote older Scripture and hope you understand it. This one opens every older line underneath, in plain English, every time.

You know the way the days have started running together, and the small surprise of realising another week has passed without you quite noticing? Underneath is a quieter question — about whether the life you are living is the one you meant to be living, or whether something quieter than you has been waiting for you to come back to it. This journal sits with that quieter question. Five honest minutes a day. The schedule does not change. But the days stop running together, and slowly you become someone who is present to your own life again.

A daily place to put down what has been weighing on you without naming itself. Written for the woman whose arms are tired and whose heart is finally willing to let go. Open to day one.

What’s inside every day

The same daily rhythm on every page: opening line, reflect question, rest cue for the body, today's focus, touch line, attributed quote with gloss, and a closing meditation.
Older Scripture and classic prose come with a small plain-English gloss directly underneath — thee, thou, unto — opened, not assumed.
Every devotional line is attributed, drawn from a curated corpus of trusted Christian voices across the centuries.
Between each of the seven stages, a Commentary, a Poem, an A Prayer for This Season page, and a closing Reflection.

Same daily rhythm, 140 days. One steady shape you learn once.

How it will feel

The to-do list can wait. Lists do not love you back. He does. Breathe. Your life does not have to look like anyone else's to be full. You can skip the thing you do not want to do. No is allowed. Rest tonight. He sustains the details while you sleep. Quiet the voice that says you should be over it by now — it does not know what it is asking. Slow forgiveness is honest forgiveness — the fast kind is usually performance. Lay down the grievance when you can — not a minute before. Peace for the one still wrestling — wrestling is faith, not failure.

Your jaw is not tight when you wake up. You ask the question and stay for the answer. The day stops feeling like it is happening to you. You wake into the day instead of into a list. Your shoulders sit lower than they used to. By that point, this can begin to feel like just who you are.

Built to form you — not just inspire you

Not Inspiration — Formation

This is not a devotional to read when inspired — it is a daily practice to return to regardless. Real faith is built through structured daily formation, not occasional motivation. Finishing this journal produces something that starting ten others cannot.

What This Journal Returns You To

  • Bow over the first step before you take it
  • Lay down the grievance when you can — not a minute before
  • Bow over the grievance before you release it

Sample prompt: "Sit with the hurt before you rush to release — the hurt deserves the space first"

A thoughtful gift

A gift that walks beside the receiver, not ahead of them. 140 days of unhurried company — no performance asked, no tally kept, just the steady page that meets them on every kind of morning. You do not need a crisis to come here. Ordinary days need God too. Encountered. Loved. Sent. All three are true right now.

More in the 140-Day series

Published by Stilling Waves Press, creator of the 140-Day Reflective Devotional Series. Our journals are designed to be completed, not merely read — combining Scripture, reflection, and guided writing into a daily spiritual practice.

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