Self-Care and Mindfulness Gifts for Women
Giving mindfulness gifts can be a beautiful opportunity to show care and connection. What better way to indulge your recipient than offer the gift of mindfulness and self-care? These thoughtful presents go beyond material gifts — they can serve as gentle reminders to pause, breathe, and nurture our wellbeing.
Whether it’s a gratitude journal, a soothing candle, or a cozy weighted blanket, mindfulness gifts empower the recipient to create moments of calm and balance in their daily life.
If you’re shopping for a busy parent, a colleague, or a loved one, this guide offers meaningful and inspiring ideas that help create more mindful, joyful moments. After all, the best gifts don’t just fill a space — they enrich the soul.
Self-Care and Mindfulness Gifts
Practicing mindfulness is one of the best ways to show our children by example how to manage life’s stressors. Finding mindfulness in parenting when your brain feels like it is going in all directions can be a challenge for some, and a mindfulness gift is a lovely way to support your fellow busy parent.
Mindful gifts are good for almost anyone, from your friend who meditates, to mindfulness gifts for kids. If you’re shopping for a teen, find mindfulness activities for teens here that can be helpful for ideas too!
Mindful Morning Rituals
Starting your day mindfully is one of the best self-care strategies. Herbal teas and elixirs have benefits inside and out.
Give a gift basket and include a little note encouraging your recipient to incorporate these mindful tea tips. The basic steps are:
- Pay attention to the sounds of the water heating up.
- Notice the feeling of your physical space, your feet on the ground, or the way your chair feels.
- Pay attention to the color of the water changing and swirling as the hot water meets the tea leaves or elixir.
- Consider how you feel for a moment as you contemplate honey or anything else you add.
- Notice the way your hand and arm have an automatic feeling as you lift and feel the weight of the mug.
- Sip your beverage slowly and savor the taste.
Here are some healing and soothing gift ideas…
Lunar Herbals offers herbal remedies crafted to support rest, happiness, and everyday balance. Since our weather finally changed, I’m loving their Mushroom Mocha! It’s a delicious blend of ceremonial cacao and Chaga, Reishi, and Turkey Tail mushrooms. These mushrooms are known to support immune health, boost vitality, and encourage mental clarity, helping you feel more grounded and focused throughout your day.
Their Calm Nerves tea is another favorite. This blend helps balance and soothe the nervous system, using herbs traditionally known as nervines, which promote relaxation, ease stress, and help regulate the nervous system without making you feel tired or wired.
You can feel great about gifting from Lunar Herbals. For every product sold, they provide 15 nutritious meals to a child in India. They are currently offering a free gift with every purchase of $50 or more, so you can check off your gift list and get a much-deserved soothing gift for yourself, too!
Mindfulness Cards
Similar to oracle cards, mindfulness cards can give little snippets of peace, a meditation focus, or something to ponder. Some cards come with activities to promote mindfulness, and some have beautiful artwork that inspires calm.
As a mindfulness gift, these cards are great for all walks of life. The receiver can pull one card a day, or use them as needed when stress arises.
I like the easy availability and routine of mindfulness cards. It’s easy to set aside a few minutes in the morning or before bed to focus on mindfulness with these decks.
These Mindful Messages cards are affirmation cards that are simple yet meaningful. They promote calm, stress relief, and relaxation with each message. This is a perfect deck for regular daily use to make mindfulness practice a habit.
Cute and tiny, these Mindful Minute Cards are quick activities that anyone can do! They are a packable size making them easy for mindfulness on the go, so they’d be a great gift for a busy parent chasing toddlers or driving teens around.
Bringing grounded awareness to your physical presence, and introducing self-care and self-acceptance as long-term goals, these cards are perfect for any human experiencing the universal struggle and beauty of life.
Mindfulness Books
A book about mindfulness can come in many inspiring forms. Whether it be instructional, informative, or calming, there is a mindfulness book for everyone!
Mindfulness: An 8-Week Plan in a Frantic World is centered on Mindful Based Cognitive Therapy. This book incorporates making mindfulness a habit with just a few minutes a day. Wonderful to reduce stress and fit mindfulness into daily life, this book was written by the Oxford professor who developed MBCT, Mark Williams.
For instructional books with a plan to incorporate mindfulness into daily life the book Practicing Mindfulness is a great place to start. It has 5-minute super accessible meditations to start a mindfulness practice and grows from there.
For easy 10-minute mindfulness practices, give The Little Book of Mindfulness. This book is straightforward for anyone to easily be able to pick up and use!
It might seem weird to gift your mom friends a coloring book, but coloring is a stress reducing activity for all ages. Katy from our team loves these two:
Stress Relief Adult Coloring Book
Forest Fairies Coloring Book for Adults
Mindfulness for Beginners
For someone new to the idea, easy-to-use mindfulness gifts are a great way to start. Slowing down and being present can take some getting used to, so keeping it simple is a great option.
Mindfulness dice make a fun and accessible way to introduce a mindfulness practice into anyone’s life. This set makes a great gift and comes in a cute storage box.
All you have to do to use mindfulness dice is roll them and choose which activity speaks to you at that moment. It helps generate ideas and takes the guessing game out of what exactly to do to ground yourself in mindfulness. It has simple and inspiring ideas on the dice, such as:
- Release judgement
- Nature walk
- Unplug
- Embrace change
Nervous System Healing
A regulated nervous system is just about the best gift anyone can receive. The only complication is that it’s usually an inside job.
Similar to mindfulness cards, this deck of Vagus Nerve Exercises offers the gift of gentle movement to help reset the nervous system. There are also some great books like this guide to Somatic Exercises.
Ryan Pink, the founder of a program to help people heal from trauma, recommends the Truvaga device. It stimulates the vagus nerve to promote better sleep, reduce anxiety, clear mental brain fog, and more. For those who struggle to meditate or find physical ways to calm the brain and body, this is kind of like a cheat code for your nervous system.
Mindfulness Journals
Journaling is a well-known way to slow down, care for yourself, and process feelings. Mindfulness journals make perfect gifts for those who like journaling or would benefit from a daily prompt or pause to consider being mindful.
Drawing your attention to calming, slowing, and caring for oneself is an amazing gift overall, and these journals are both great tools to support that process.
Sometimes we need prompts, and sometimes we just need wide open space. This Exhale Journal will inspire your recipient to write, vent, sketch, and dream. And something this beautiful is sure to inspire creativity and joy.
This One Question a Day Self-Care journal incorporates short but thoughtful prompts and has 3 years of journaling questions to ponder and dive into. Prompts like “Who or what can you always lean on,” and “What should you stop feeling guilty about,” guide you toward introspection, self-acceptance, and grounded self-love.
A Daily Pause Journal promotes exactly that, a pause. With 100 reflections to help bring intention and mindfulness into daily life, this journal is perfect for anyone interested in mindfulness and personal growth.
If there’s a young woman on your list, here’s a powerful self-care gift. A daily habits journal helps teens and tweens develop a practice of intentional inner connection – without it even seeming that serious. They don’t need more pressure…. just an easy way to keep on track and see their progress.
Unique Gifts for Mindfulness
Keeping gifts interesting for someone who seems to have everything can be an important part of bringing thought and intention to gift giving. These unique mindfulness gifts are useful and thoughtful, and inspire moments of peace for busy people when they need it most.
This Mood Mist Aromatherapy Set is the perfect gift for a busy parent who needs a quick energy-cleansing reset. Breathing in scents for aromatherapy is a great way to practice deep breaths, and take a moment of peace no matter if you’re at a soccer game, ballet practice, or at the grocery store.
This set comes with 4 mood mist sprays: restful slumber, peace and tranquility, solace and serenity, and elevation. They’re small enough to fit in a purse or car, and easy to use on the go.
These Mindful Advent Candles are made with beeswax and have a calming honey scent. They burn for 20 minutes and are a reminder each day during the hustle and bustle of the holiday season to take time to unwind, relax, focus, and calm.
Last but definitely not least is this Mindful Breathing Necklace made with recycled materials. This necklace helps the process of deep breathing to calm anxiety and recenter a racing and stressed mind. It can double as a fidget and makes mindful breathing easy throughout the day.