In this first Toolbox Treasure episode of Becoming the Blueprint on Living Reflections, Mel introduces a reflective and visual wellbeing practice she has created: the Blueprint Journey Map.

This tool invites you to chart your own path across a symbolic landscape (valleys, mountains, a beach, and a lake) representing the cycles of challenge, growth, respite, and renewal.

This exercise engages neuroplasticity through visual and symbolic processing, helping you externalise your inner truth, clarify your goals, and recognise both obstacles and supports along the way.

🎧 Audio version includes the guided exercise plus a reading from Mel's book Painting Beauty with Ashes, which connects deeply to the metaphor.

🎥 Video version focuses solely on the map exercise, which you can screenshot or recreate in your own way.

What does your blueprint journey look like? Let's draw it—not to perfect it, but to meet it. 

Dr Mel Baker's evidence-based and practice-based wellbeing model, tools and resources available at Living Your Wellbeing.

*Special thanks to the artists of Pixabay for their royalty-free music.