Ana Juma

Ana Juma is a journaling facilitator, mentor and educator based in Lisbon. She creates spaces where individuals, teams and communities return to connection through writing, and she wants to spark what she calls a modern renaissance of flipping through pages in a world of constant scrolling.

Ana has kept journals since her teenage years. Growing up as a biracial girl, she struggled to find her place, and her journals held the emotions and stories she was too afraid to say out loud. Over time the pages became the practice through which she began to heal. As an introvert and a deep feeler, she found that putting thoughts on paper was the simplest way to move through life's whirlwinds with more calm and clarity.

In 2015 she left a corporate job and moved to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where she joined the Mindvalley team and watched over their online community of 3 million students. Friends and colleagues began asking her for guidance on starting to journal. In 2018 she created the Life Journal, a 13-week guided system for living with greater clarity and intention through writing. She went on to build a small independent publishing house for journaling tools and published a poetry book, Back to Earth (2022), based on her journals.

Ana began facilitating journaling sessions in 2019, first at retreats, then with communities and companies during the pandemic. By 2023 she was hosting monthly sessions in Lisbon. She became a certified Journal to the Self® instructor in 2024 and continues her studies at the Therapeutic Writing Institute.

Today she leads group workshops and one-to-one sessions and shares free journaling videos on YouTube. Her tools are designed to help people start and deepen a journaling practice that feels approachable, meaningful and sustainable.