Listen to how Sharon uses journaling to resolve communications issues with others and clarify the different aspects of her own personality.

Never Leave Home Without It!

By Sue Branson Rawlings

What is the medicinal "plant" I carry wherever I go?

My journal keeps me rooted ~ it heals my wounded soul ~ it keeps track of where I am in my journey.  It is the one item that I never "leave home without".  It may be READ MORE

Journaling: Time to Write to Yourself

By Rhonda Williams

I have for many year now written journals of my life and its many ups and down to life in that moment. I thought by writing my thoughts it would help me understand and find a way to find out the Why? As I write each page in my journal, READ MORE...

30 Day$ Journaling and My Relationship With Money

By Tiffany Monique 

In August of 2009 I decided to try journaling about my finances as part of my first Art Project for Goddard College where I am currently working on a Masters Degree in Transformative Language Arts. For thirty days I recorded my thoughts about money as they happened, or relatively soon thereafter. There were times where I knew better than to do anything but feel (not writing at all). Still, I wrote consistently on this subject for 30 days. READ MORE...

Finding My True Self Through Journaling

By Monique Halley

When I was in high school I recall my mother telling me to always write things done, so that I can keep track of it all, so I did. I literally wrote everything down in my day planner; all my classes, my test scores, what days I had cheerleading practices and games, I wrote everyone birthdays, who I spoke to on the phone etc… It was very fascinating to look back at a year worth of my life. I read and relived every moment. I enjoyed it! READ MORE

All Aboard the SS Journal

By Angel Fridholm

On April 15, 2011, I spoke with Mari McCarthy and my husband Joncarlo Fridholm about taking the plunge once again into journaling.  After meeting with Mari and later discussing it with Jon, I climbed aboard the SS Journal.  To date there have been more than sixty ports...READ MORE

The Value of Journaling

By Rob Rideout

I guess you could say I started journaling when I was seventeen years old and took a sailboat trip up the coast of British Columbia with my friend’s dysfunctional family. I chronicled our trip, calling it “To Hell and Back in a Sailboat”. This was my first attempt at...READ MORE

Journaling Saved My Life !

By Kristin Donovan

When I turned thirteen, I was seized by an epiphany that forever changed my life: adulthood causes amnesia.  If I were to avoid the adult-onset cluelessness that clearly plagued my parents, I needed to carefully document my life and create a reference manual for later.  If I wanted to remember anything, I had to...READ MORE

Journaling For a Better Me

By Sue York

Journaling has always been a challenge for me.  I kept one as a child but have since lost it over the years.  In my early twenties I had always wanted to keep a journal perhaps to tell my children how I met their father and they came to be.  Unfortunately my former husband decided it was his business to read it.  So I quit writing in it.  I have since not been able to ... READ MORE

Have You Ever Cheated on Your Journal?

By Mazie Bishop

I have been journaling since I was around 5 years old. In my very first journal, I announce that I will be taking a writing lesson break and I pretty much write the words from books that I can pick out, over and over again. I have always been like that; announcing to the world or to myself what I am going to do, as if people are watching what I am doing. Journaling helped me see that! READ MORE

Blank Pages Work for Me!

by Patricia Anne McGoldrick

Journaling has been an evolving process for me.

I began with the traditional narrow-lined pages of a 1-year, then a 5-year diary.
This precious small 5-year diary  with a white leather-like cover and a small brass key was a special place for adolescent years. In a houseful of 7 siblings, you can be sure that I...READ MORE

Journaling with Your Inner Kid

by Jill Schoenberg

Inviting your inner kid to join you in your journaling has many powerful benefits.  I should know because over the past few months I have worked with a short, simple inner kid meditation and an exhilarating journaling activity that included my inner kid aspect....READ MORE 

Journaling for Life

By Melia Dicker

Since I was around five years old, my journal has been my closest confidant. I was still getting used to holding a pencil at the time when someone gave me a little hardback journal with a metal lock and key. Even though my secrets weren’t any juicier than “I went to Disneyland. It was fun,” the important thing was that I had a place to keep them. READ MORE

Kim on Journaling

Create Write Now's creative director Wendy Kipfmiller interviews Kim White
on how and why she has journaled throughout her life.

Journaling with Annie

Still Point: Entering Journaling's Sacred Space

By Carol Ohmart Behan

On my writing room shelf is a set of a dozen or so pocket-sized books that I treasure, a set of journals kept by my Great-great Aunt Mary from 1908 to the late 1920s. The short entries, written faithfully each day, are full of the doings of her life on a small farm. Again and again she writes,...READ MORE

How Journaling Saved My life: Receiving Journal Insight

By Lillian Gaffney

Sunday Aug. 26, 1990 I walked to the corner... crossed the street and walked to the phone booth. I opened the door and inserted my dime. I called the police. That phone call changed my life forever. As Dr. Phil says, it was a life defining moment. Things would never be the same, again. They were my first steps to freedom... READ MORE

Journal Writing: My Lifeline to Soul

By Elizabeth Barrett

Daily Journaling Changes Your Life! Yes, Really!  

By John McClean

As an 18 year old sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin I took a Creative Writing class and we were required to begin keeping a journal.

At the end of the semester, the other students each brought in a lovely journal to show the professor they’d fulfilled the requirements. I brought in a large box containing... READ MORE

Not Your Mama's Dreamy Diary...Journaling's Challenge to the Soul

By Mary H. Ruth

I'm in my late 50s and am blessed with a certain amount of contentment. As the sole operator in my small business, I work pretty much all the time but it's work that I enjoy very much, so the long hours are more a privilege than a hardship.

I'm also one of Mari's virtual assistants, though I am not being paid to write this post.             READ MORE....

Journaling Through the Rough Patches

By Gillian Burgess

For the last 15 years, I have kept a journal through my hardest and happiest times. The journals have looked different over the years, from crumpled spiral notebooks to sleek black sketchbooks, but they have always served the same purpose: to give me a safe place to vent, gloat, rage and muse about everything important phase of my life. My first journal...READ MORE 

TRUTH

By Donna Abel Donabella

This New Year I began a 27 day journaling challenge to work on myself and my health. If you have never tried journaling, you should.  There are many journaling sites, but the two I recommend are; Mari McCarthy’s Create, Write, Now-Journaling for the Health of It and Matilda Butler/Kendra Bonnett’s Women’s Memoirs who do more than just journaling.  Why journal?  Well it really is a cool way to talk with yourself.  To discover who you are, what you want to be and what may be holding you back. READ MORE...

Journaling: Our Snapshots in Time 

By Linda R. Prior

I’ve dabbled in journaling off and on throughout my life.  Typically, these writing bouts have coincided with significant events.  Well, except for my first foray when I was just into “the experience.”  In sixth grade, I received my first diary, a red, leather-bound book with a lock and key.  Locating it again recently, I deciphered my rudimentary cursive scribbling, hoping to unearth some profound clues to my uncomfortable adolescence. READ MORE...

A Ready Writer

By Dawn Herring

Keeping a journal has become a vital and integral part of my life. It began right after I met my husband Bill, a life changing event. The adventurous, multi-dimensional life we were beginning to create was worth the written word. My journal writing journey chronicled our growing relationship which eventually led to births of our two daughters, prompting me to create journals for each of them.

I used the pages in my personal journal to revel in my victories, vent my motherly angst, and define who I was becoming and who I wanted to be. Writing honestly about whatever circumstance I was in helped to reveal attitudes, emotions, and even dreams. This process became part of my routine, a practice I looked forward to. Journaling cleared the mental cobwebs and aided me in renewing my goals and life purpose. READ MORE...

The Best Friend Who Always Listens

By Henriettta Handy

I was diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis at the age of two-and-a-half years old. My first clear memory is being in excruciating pain on my parents leather couch and in tears with my Mom on her knees beside me in the floor. “Can you tell Mommy where it hurts, baby?” she was saying. I remember understanding her quite plainly but not having the ability to form the words to tell her where or how I was hurting. We both cried that day: me in physical agony and she in truest heartfelt agony because she could not help her baby daughter fight a monster that was inside her own body. At that moment I understood words were important, far more important than anyone could know for me. READ MORE ...

Journal Writing and the Global Awakening to Conscious Creation

By Soli Goodes

Journaling Night Notes: In Praise of Evening (Not Morning) Pages

By Kim White
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I don't do mornings.

Pages, that is. When I first read Julia Cameron's 'TheArtist Way' I was stunned: she recommended that a person write first thing each morning. Morning? Have I mentioned that I don't DO mornings? READ MORE...