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Books & Journals

ART FOR YOUR INNER WORLD.

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Books to read slowly, look closely and return to.

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Through image, word and creative practice, these works explore the inner landscapes of love, longing, memory, identity, expression, embodiment, transformation and becoming.​

Some are visual and poetic books. Others invite you to create your own images, marks, words and reflections.​

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Explore Book Collections

THE INNER LIBRARY

Ten works exploring different dimensions of inner experience.

Voice · Identity · Body · Desire · Belief · Love · Nature

Soulful by N® brings together expressive arts journals, psychology-informed reflective workbooks and visual books.

Each offers a different form of attention—something to write in, create through, reflect with, look at or return to over time.

There is no required order

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THE SOULFUL BY N® DIGITAL COLLECTION.

Created by Nourhan Eltoukhi — Multidisciplinary Artist & Art Therapist — Soulful by N®️.

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Ten works, gathered together.

For those who would like to experience the collection as a whole, all ten digital works are available together in the Complete Soulful by N® Digital Collection.

Move between voice and identity.
Body and breath.
Desire and direction.
Belief and action.
Love and nature.

Some pages are made to be read slowly. Others invite you to write, draw, move, imagine, notice, question, and create.

There is no prescribed order and no need to complete everything at once. Return to different works at different moments.

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Ten books, journals, and creative workbooks for love, self-trust, expression, embodiment, art, and meaningful action.

A complete digital collection by Nourhan Eltoukhi, created for the moments when you want to slow down, understand yourself more deeply, make something honest, and take the next step.

Inside are intimate art books, expressive arts journals, and psychology-informed workbooks. Begin anywhere: with love, with the body, with a question, with a blank page, or with the part of you asking to be heard.

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What’s Included

"A Journey Into Love": A photography and poetry collection on desire, faith, heartbreak, and returning to yourself.

"Untold Stories of a Tree": A poetic art book of photography, prose, Qur’anic reflection, nature, and the inner seasons of becoming.

"The Inner Decree": A 21-day creative workbook for self-trust, clarity, and taking the next honest step.

"The Art of Aliveness": An eight-part guided journal for presence, connection, creativity, and living with intention.

"The Inner Landscape": A 61-page expressive arts journal with 21 guided creative experiences for exploring the world within.

"Seen & Heard": A 21-page expressive arts journal for giving shape to what is difficult to put into words.

"Return to the Body": A 124-page expressive arts journal with 21 guided experiences and 50 spacious art pages for reconnection, presence, and embodied self-trust.

"Choosing a New Story": A 90-day reflective workbook for love, self-worth, receiving, art, visibility, and meaningful action.

"The Sleep Return": A 25-page art-led, evidence-informed sleep journal with calming body practices, reflective prompts, CBT-I-informed tools, and support for overthinking at night.

"The Way Home": A 68-page therapeutic-spiritual journal for hurt, grief, loneliness, love, prayer, boundaries, and returning to yourself and the Creator.

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Your Collection Includes

  • 10 digital PDF books, journals, and workbooks

  • More than 500 pages of photography, poetry, creative prompts, reflection, and spacious art pages

  • Instant access after purchase

  • Poetry, art, spirituality, psychology-informed reflection, and expressive arts practices

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This Collection Is For You If You Want To

  • Feel more connected to yourself

  • Explore love, longing, boundaries, and self-worth

  • Create without needing to be “good at art”

  • Reconnect with your body at your own pace

  • Meet uncertainty with more honesty and care

  • Make space for your voice, art, desires, and next steps

  • Keep meaningful practices close when you need them

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No art experience is required. Use the journals digitally or print the pages you would like to work with at home.

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Important Information

This is a digital product. No physical products will be shipped.

The journals and workbooks are educational and reflective resources. They are not psychotherapy, counselling, diagnosis, medical care, crisis support, or a substitute for professional treatment.

For individual personal use only. Please do not copy, share, upload, reproduce, redistribute, resell, or use any part of these files commercially without written permission.

Created by Nourhan Eltoukhi - Multidisciplinary Artist & Art Therapist Soulful by N®

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  • SEEN & HEARD

Voice · Expression · Visibility
A guided expressive arts journal for giving shape to what is difficult to put into words.

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  • THE INNER LANDSCAPE

Memory · Identity · Inner World
A journey of 21 guided creative experiences into memory, boundaries, desire, and the inner world still taking shape.

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  • RETURN TO THE BODY

Sensation · Movement · Presence
A 124-page expressive arts journal with guided experiences for reconnecting through sensation, movement, colour, writing, and reflection.

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  • THE ART OF ALIVENESS

Presence · Connection · Creativity
An eight-part guided journal for living with more presence, connection, creativity, and intention.

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  • THE INNER DECREE

Desire · Self-Trust · Direction
A 63-page, 21-day creative psychology workbook for clarity, self-trust, and meaningful action.

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  • CHOOSING A NEW STORY

Belief · Self-Worth · Meaningful Action
A 90-day psychology-informed reflective practice for love, self-worth, receiving, art, and meaningful action.

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  • A JOURNEY INTO LOVE

Love · Presence · Longing
An original photography and prose art book exploring desire, faith, vulnerability, and becoming.

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  • UNTOLD STORIES OF A TREE

Nature · Time · Transformation
An original photographic and poetic meditation on nature, memory, resilience, and return.

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  • THE SLEEP RETURN

Rest · Ease · Night

A 25-page art-led, evidence-informed sleep journal for calmer nights, with reflective prompts, calming body practices, and support for overthinking. THE WAY HOME Love · Grief · Prayer · Return A 68-page therapeutic-spiritual journal for meeting hurt, grief, loneliness, love, boundaries.

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10 COMPLETE DIGITAL WORKS

6 CREATIVE JOURNALS

2 PSYCHOLOGY-INFORMED REFLECTIVE WORKBOOKS

2 VISUAL & POETIC ART BOOKS

Writing · Drawing · Colour · Breath · Movement · Imagery · Photography · Body Awareness · Creative Reflection

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There is no need to rush.​​​

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SEEN & HEARD

Voice · Expression · Visibility

A studio journal for what wants to be expressed.

Some things remain inside us simply because there has not been enough space to give them a voice.

Seen & Heard is a journal of guided expressive arts experiences exploring expression, visibility and finding your own way of being heard.

Moving through QUIET → SHAPE → SHOW → KEEP, the journal begins with what has gone unsaid, gives it form through colour and image, and explores what it might mean to express more of what is true for you.

Write it.

Draw it.

Colour it.

Leave it unfinished.

The page is yours.

guided expressive arts experiences

Writing · Drawing · Colour · Imagery · Reflection

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THE INNER LANDSCAPE

Memory · Identity · Inner World

An expressive arts journal for exploring the world within.

There is an entire landscape within you—

memories,

feelings,

places,

boundaries,

desires,

protections,

contradictions,

possibilities.

The Inner Landscape is a journey of 21 guided expressive arts experiences into that terrain.

Moving through ENTER → EXPLORE → BECOME, explore inner weather, memory, identity, protection, boundaries, desire, change, growth and the parts of yourself still taking shape.

The journey culminates in A Map of Becoming—a visual map of the landscape you have encountered along the way.

You do not need to understand everything immediately.

Sometimes an image can show you something a paragraph cannot.

21 guided expressive arts experiences

Writing · Drawing · Colour · Imagery · Creative Reflection

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RETURN   TO   THE   BODY

Sensation · Movement · Presence

An expressive arts journal for returning to what you can notice.

It is easy to spend much of life inside thought—

planning,

remembering,

analysing,

anticipating.

Return to the Body offers another place to begin:

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What do I notice right now?

Across 124 pages and 21 guided expressive arts experiences, explore sensation, movement, breath, colour, mark-making, writing and reflection.

Moving through ARRIVE → LISTEN → MOVE → RETURN, the journal invites curiosity about what your body, gestures, images and creative marks may be communicating.

A sensation might become a colour.

A movement might become a line.

A feeling might become an image.

There is no correct image to make, movement to perform or answer to discover.

Begin with what is here.

124 pages

21 guided expressive arts experiences

Sensation · Movement · Breath · Colour · Mark-Making · Writing · Reflection

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THE INNER DECREE

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Desire · Self-Trust · Direction

A creative psychology workbook for meaningful direction and action.

What do you want when nobody else is answering for you?

There is what we genuinely want.

And then there is everything layered over it—

expectation,

comparison,

fear,

approval,

habit,

and ideas about who we are supposed to become.

The Inner Decree is a 63-page, 21-day creative psychology workbook exploring the relationship between desire, identity, attention, self-doubt and action.

Through psychology-informed reflection, guided imagery, creative exercises, self-compassion and practical planning, the workbook invites you to clarify what matters and take meaningful steps without waiting to feel completely certain.

It does not promise control over outcomes or other people.

Instead, it focuses on what remains yours:

what you choose,

what you practise,

how you respond,

and where you go next.

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Listen inward. Choose deliberately. Take the next honest step.

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63 pages

21 days of guided exploration

Psychology-Informed Reflection · Guided Imagery · Creative Practice · Self-Compassion · Intention · Meaningful Action

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CHOOSING A NEW STORY

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Belief · Self-Worth · Meaningful Action

A 90-day reflective practice for changing the story without pretending you control the outcome.

What happens between an experience and the story you tell yourself about it?

Choosing a New Story is a 90-day psychology-informed, creative and values-led reflective workbook exploring love, self-worth, relationships, uncertainty, receiving, art, money and meaningful action.

The practice is not about forcing positive thinking, denying difficult feelings or pretending that thoughts control another person or guarantee an outcome. That distinction is explicitly built into the workbook.

Instead, it asks:

What happened?

What did I make it mean?

What else may also be true?

What response fits the person I want to become?

The practice moves through four recurring movements:

NOTICE → CHOOSE → ACT → REVIEW

NOTICE

Notice the trigger, body response, old story and urge.

CHOOSE

Consider a kinder, more accurate and values-consistent interpretation.

ACT

Take one concrete action that fits what matters to you.

REVIEW

Notice what happened and what you learned without turning the outcome into a verdict on your worth.

The workbook develops this practice across three phases:

Days 1–30 · Awareness

Days 31–60 · Application

Days 61–90 · Integration

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90-Day Reflective Practice

Notice → Choose → Act → Review

Love & Relationships

Relationship Blueprint

Abandonment & Loneliness

Self-Concept & Self-Worth

Release & Reconciliation

Uncertainty

Becoming

Work, Art & Money

Receiving

Grounded Visualization

Trigger Practice

Decision Compass

Creative Integration

90-Day Trackers

Weekly Reviews

Evidence-Informed Foundations

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A JOURNEY INTO LOVE

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Love · Presence · Longing

A visual and poetic journey through the many places love lives.

Love is not only romantic.

It can live in attention.

In memory.

In friendship.

In longing.

In landscape.

In vulnerability.

In the desire to be seen.

In the way light falls somewhere you have seen a hundred times before.

A Journey Into Love brings together original photography and prose in an intimate exploration of love, desire, vulnerability, presence, faith, embodiment and becoming.

It is not a workbook.

There are no exercises to finish or answers to arrive at.

Instead:

Move slowly through the images and words.

Open it somewhere.

Stay with an image.

Read something twice.

Return later.

Notice what has changed.​

This is a book to experience, not complete.

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Original Photography

Original Prose

Visual Storytelling

Love · Presence · Longing · Memory · Becoming

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UNTOLD STORIES OF A TREE

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Nature · Time · Transformation

A visual and poetic meditation on nature, memory and becoming.

What can a tree tell us about being alive?

A tree records its life without explaining it.

Roots.

Seasons.

Weather.

Falling.

Stillness.

Growth.

Renewal.

Season after season, it changes while remaining unmistakably itself.

Untold Stories of a Tree brings together original photography and prose in an exploration of nature, memory, resilience, time and transformation.

The tree becomes more than a subject.

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It becomes a witness to change.

A meditation on what we carry, what changes, what disappears, what returns and the quiet process of finding our way home to ourselves.

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Original Photography

Original Prose

Nature

Visual Storytelling

Memory · Resilience · Transformation · Becoming

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THE SLEEP RETURN

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Rest · Ease · Night

An art-led, evidence-informed journal for calmer nights.

Sleep is not something you can force. It is something your body can return to when it feels supported, safe, and gently guided.

The Sleep Return is a 25-page reflective sleep journal for people who feel tired, wired, overwhelmed, or caught in overthinking at night.

Blending psychology-informed tools, core CBT-I principles, expressive arts, gentle body practices, sleep tracking, and calming visual rituals, it offers practical support without asking you to be perfect or follow a rigid routine.

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7-Night Starting Plan

Sleep Diary Pages

CBT-I-Informed Practices · Scheduled Worry · Compassionate Reframing

Longer-Exhale Breathing · Progressive Muscle Release

Writing · Drawing · Colour · Reflection

Original Soulful by N® Artwork

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THE WAY HOME

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Love · Grief · Prayer · Return

A journal for returning to yourself, love, and the Creator.

There are times when life feels heavy—when you feel hurt, rejected, lonely, overwhelmed, disconnected from your body, or far from the person you know yourself to be.

The Way Home is a gentle 68-page journal for those moments: a place to slow down, name what hurts, and meet yourself with more honesty, compassion, and care.

Through reflective writing, psychology-informed insight, original photography, prayer, and spacious creative pages, it invites you to sit beside yourself and find your way back, one page at a time.

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Nine guided reflection chapters

Hurt · Rejection · Loneliness · Grief · Conflict · Change · Emotional Overwhelm

Attachment · Love · Boundaries · Repair · Self-Abandonment

Return to Prayer

Original Photography · Writing · Drawing · Painting · Collage · Reflection

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A PLACE TO BEGIN

There is no right place to start.

For voice and expression

SEEN & HEARD

For memory, identity, and the inner world

THE INNER LANDSCAPE

For breath, rest, and release

RETURN TO THE BODY

For presence, connection, and creativity

THE ART OF ALIVENESS

For desire, self-trust, and direction

THE INNER DECREE

For beliefs, self-worth, and meaningful action

CHOOSING A NEW STORY

For love, presence, and longing

A JOURNEY INTO LOVE

For nature, time, and transformation

UNTOLD STORIES OF A TREE

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Or experience the complete body of work through:

Words are only one way in.

Across the Inner Library, different works invite different forms of attention.

WRITE

Follow questions that invite curiosity rather than perfect answers.

DRAW

Use line, shape, image, and gesture without needing to know how to draw.

NOTICE

Begin with sensation, breath, movement, and what is present.

USE COLOUR

Approach experience visually when language feels insufficient.

MOVE

Allow movement and bodily awareness to become part of the creative process.

REFLECT

Notice the meanings, questions, and interpretations you carry.

CREATE

Follow an image, mark, word, or idea without needing to know where it will lead.

ACT

Where a practice invites action, experiment with one small step aligned with what matters to you.

LOOK

Spend time with photography, nature, and visual storytelling without needing to turn everything into an answer.

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YOU DON'T NEED TO BE AN ARTIST.

You don't need to know what to draw.

You don't need to have the right words.

You don't need to make something beautiful.

You don't need to understand everything immediately.

These works are not another assignment in becoming a perfected version of yourself.

The invitation is simpler.

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Notice.  Make.  Become curious.  See what appears.

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CREATED BETWEEN ART & PSYCHOLOGY

Nourhan Eltoukhi

Nourhan Eltoukhi is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in psychology and expressive arts.

Her work explores the meeting point between visual art, human experience, and embodied creative practice.

Through painting, photography, writing, colour, movement, and reflective practice, her work explores what we carry beyond language—memory, identity, longing, boundaries, desire, expression, and becoming.

Soulful by N® grew from a fascination with what can emerge when creativity becomes a way of paying attention.

Sometimes understanding begins with language. Sometimes it begins before language—with an image, a gesture, a sensation, or a colour.

These works make space for both.

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Art is not only something to look at.

Sometimes, it is somewhere to go.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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DO I NEED TO BE AN ARTIST?

No. No previous artistic experience is required.

The aim is not to make “good art.” It is to experiment, notice, reflect, and explore.

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WHAT DO I RECEIVE?

Each purchase includes the selected digital book, journal, or workbook for individual personal use.

The Complete Soulful by N® Digital Collection includes all ten digital works. Printed editions are separate unless explicitly stated otherwise.

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DO I HAVE TO COMPLETE THE WORKS IN ORDER?

No. There is no required order across the Inner Library.

Individual journals and workbooks may have their own internal structure, but you can return to different works over time.

 

 

WHERE SHOULD I BEGIN?

Voice → Seen & Heard
Inner world → The Inner Landscape
Body → Return to the Body
Presence and creativity → The Art of Aliveness
Desire and direction → The Inner Decree
Beliefs and meaningful action → Choosing a New Story
Love and longing → A Journey Into Love
Nature and transformation → Untold Stories of a Tree

Or explore all eight through The Complete Inner Library.

 

 

ARE THESE JOURNALS AND WORKBOOKS THERAPY?

No. Soulful by N® journals, workbooks, and books are creative and educational resources for personal reflection, expressive practice, and exploration.

They are not psychotherapy, counselling, diagnosis, medical treatment, or a substitute for professional mental-health or medical care when needed.

 

 

CAN I PRINT MY DIGITAL COPY?

If personal printing is enabled for the file you purchase, you may print a copy for your own individual personal use.

Digital files and printed copies may not be redistributed, shared, reproduced for others, or resold.

 

 

CAN I USE THESE WITH CLIENTS, GROUPS, OR WORKSHOPS?

A standard purchase is for individual personal use only.

Please contact us for facilitator, group, workshop, teaching, organisational, or commercial-use licensing.

[CONTACT FOR PROFESSIONAL LICENSING]

 

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BEGIN WHERE YOU ARE.

You don't need the perfect words.

You don't need artistic experience.

You don't need to know where the page will take you.

Sometimes it begins with a sentence.
Sometimes a colour.
Sometimes a sensation.
Sometimes an image.
Sometimes simply noticing what is already here.

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THE COMPLETE INNER LIBRARY

Ten digital works. One collection to return to over time.

6 creative journals
2 psychology-informed reflective workbooks
2 visual and poetic art books

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SOULFUL BY N®

Art for your inner world.

Created by Nourhan Eltoukhi.

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A NOTE ON USE

Soulful by N® journals, workbooks and books are created for personal reflection, creative exploration and expressive practice.

They are educational and creative resources and are not psychotherapy, counselling, diagnosis, medical treatment or a substitute for professional mental-health or medical care when needed.

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All written content, exercises, artwork, photography and designs are protected by applicable copyright.

Unless expressly licensed otherwise, purchases are for individual personal use only and may not be reproduced, redistributed, shared, resold or used commercially.

© 2026 Nourhan Eltoukhi / Soulful by N®. All rights reserved.

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