More and more people are recognizing health isn’t just physical. In fact, some experts believe most illnesses have their root causes in stress. A holistic approach to health is essential to living the happiest life possible without falling ill as often.
We love that the Ban Do Planner provides a wealth of information on all aspects of your health, including some alternative healing ideas. It’s excellent for those who are new to taking charge of their health.
Our Wellness Ban Do Planner Review goes deeper into what problem it solves, a summary of customer reviews and the pros and cons.
What Problem the Product Solves and What Separates It from the Rest
The Ban Do Planner is a wellness planner that helps you improve all aspects of your health. It’s full of helpful advice and guidance in addition to daily planning pages.
Advice is provided for nutrition, feeling all your feelings, body positivity and exercise. Learning how to accept and feel your feelings is essential for good health. Many people make the mistake of unknowingly suppressing their emotions.
We’re in a society where people are constantly on the go and taking care of others before themselves.
Using this planner on a daily basis will help you step back and take time to yourself to recharge. You are most helpful to others when you feel your best.
This planner has five main divider pages: eat + drink, relax, activities, feelings and goals(Learn more about how to use planner effectively).
Under the eat and drink section, you’ll also learn about balance. Each section has several pages of information on health.
The planner has a few goals setting pages where you can clarify your health goals and the action steps to get there.
You don’t need to follow the typical lose weight or eat healthy diet goals.
For those who suffer from chronic pain or other serious illnesses, they can create goals related to treating and easing their symptoms. The planner works well regardless of what type of health goals you have in mind.
There is a personalizable emotional rating system in the planner you can use to set up how you plan on rating your emotions.
Track your emotions to help yourself become aware of what you’re feeling on a daily basis.
Your insights will surprise you after you start this habit.
Other helpful self-care pages in the Ban Do Wellness Planner are the daily water chart, ways to express self-love and things to do with friends.
You can write down a few songs you want to listen to for mood-boosting, chilling out, working out and getting things done under the stuff to listen to page.
It also has a section for podcasts to listen to on the same page. Choose podcasts that are relevant to improving your physical and/or mental health.
This can serve as an excellent reference page when you are trying to get yourself into a certain mindset or motivate yourself to do what you need to do for self-care.
You’ll find motivational quotes throughout the planner that are helpful when you’re feeling down or unmotivated. Examples of quotes that may be in the planner are:
- “Do what makes you content with your future self.”
- “Focus on your relationship with yourself. Do what’s right for you.”
- “Wellness is about being in a state of good mental and physical health.”
It has a beautiful, yet simple pink and gold design with a gold elastic band closure and gold metallic cover art. Quirky graphics are included throughout the planner giving it a more visual experience than the average planner.
Stickers come with the planner to help you decorate it or track your progress through stickers instead of pens. (You can also use third-party stickers, look at our reviews on stickers and pens for planners)
Another thing we like about the Ban Do Wellness Planner is it’s in a three-ring binder. You can rearrange the pages or add new pages to further customize it to your needs.
There are perforated care cards in the planner that you can tear out to keep on your person as motivation. Some of them have quotes on them and others are wellness tips, such as playing with dogs or taking a hot bath with essential oils. You could mix the cards together and pick one at random when you’re feeling down as a surprise pick-me-up.
Features
- Undated
- 8" x 6.5"
- Divider tabs
- 3-ring binder
- Elastic band closure
- Stickers
- Advice from wellness experts
- Goal planning
- Meal planning
- Activity logs
- Perforated care cards
- Journal prompts
- Emotional check-ins
- Sections on balance, relaxation, activities, feelings and goals
What Customers Are Saying
Customers like that the Ban Do Wellness Planner lets them track both their mental and physical health. They also like that each section comes with several pages of valuable information related to that topic.
Another aspect of the planner customers liked is the journal prompts because they helped them dig deeper into their moods to discover why they felt a certain way.
What some didn't like is the Ban Do Wellness Planner doesn't have official refill pages. One customer said that Ban Do does, however, have free PDFs you can print and the hole punch.
Other reasons customers liked the planner is it helped hold them accountable in taking care of themselves. Some customers were new to self-care and others have been doing it for a while, but they both generally give positive reviews for the planner. 
Pros/Cons
- You can add and rearrange pages in the three-ring bound planner.
- It has a lot of helpful information on self-care that you can implement in your life. Some of these educational pages are Wellness 101, Relax and Unplug, Crystals 101, Girls’ Night In, Be a Good Sport and Organize Your Life.
- The planner has an emotional tracker to help you become more aware of your feelings. You need to be aware of how you feel to improve your mental health.
- Some planners that have an emotional rating system don’t appeal to the individual. This planner lets you create your own rating system.
- There is a page on body positivity, an issue many people struggle with. It can help you learn how to love your body and feel more confident.
- There aren’t a lot of journal pages, so you would have to buy more pages or write on a separate sheet of paper.
Conclusion
The Ban Do Wellness Planner is more than just a health planner. It's a guide for wholeness and well-being. We recommend it for open-minded people who like the thought of holistic healing.
The planner helps provide structure in achieving your health goals as well as valuable information on various aspects of health. Both your physical and mental health are addressed.
Although there aren't many planning pages in this planner, you'll find it's a resource you frequently revisit. You can also find suitable printables to insert into the binder or continue writing in a separate journal while following its guidance.
