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Learn from real people, just like you, how therapeutic journaling can benefit your life. Within these personal stories you’ll find journaling tips, tricks, inspiration and ideas that help you structure your journaling practice—and discover the true value journaling can bring to your life.

Find the inspiration to keep going and the motivation to make journaling work for you and your hectic schedule. Learn about these everyday people who made the decision to put pen to paper and how it transformed their lives!

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy, Self Growth, Creative Journaling

Wednesday Journaling Writes: Journal Your No-Media Diet

Mari L. McCarthy

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I am overwhelmed by the constant onslaught of media: the multitude of messages coming at me via email, telephone, television, internet and all the rest.

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Journaling: Stretch Your Creative Writing Muscles

Mari L. McCarthy

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Writing Therapy Lessons from Dr. James Pennebaker

Mari L. McCarthy

Social psychologist and University of Texas at Austin professor Dr. James Pennebaker has a simple assignment that he has been giving people for more than 20 years; he tells them to write down their...

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Wednesday Journaling Writes: What’s Your Mood?

Mari L. McCarthy

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Custom Journals Awaken Muses

Mari L. McCarthy

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Create a Family Memory Journal

Mari L. McCarthy

As you get older, time seems to fly by more quickly with every passing year. If you have children, you know that one minute they are taking their first unsteady steps and the next they are begging...

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Wednesday Journaling Writes: How Your Journal Becomes Your Guide

Mari L. McCarthy

We journal to reflect on past experience, but it’s pretty cool how journal writing can become an indispensable tool for guiding our steps in the present and into the future, as well.

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Journaling: What's your Personal Philosophy?

Mari L. McCarthy

When you were a student, you spent a good deal of time studying the thoughts of philosophers and writers in history. Along the way, you might have encountered a few ideas that struck a chord with...

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The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D. - A Book Review

Mari L. McCarthy

Reviewed by Stephen P. Smith

Wednesday Journaling Writes: Journal Your No-Media Diet-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

September 19, 2012

Wednesday Journaling Writes: Journal Your No-Media Diet

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I am overwhelmed by the constant onslaught of media: the multitude of messages coming at me via email,...

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Journaling: Stretch Your Creative Writing Muscles-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

September 17, 2012

Journaling: Stretch Your Creative Writing Muscles

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Writing Therapy Lessons from Dr. James Pennebaker-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

September 14, 2012

Writing Therapy Lessons from Dr. James Pennebaker

Social psychologist and University of Texas at Austin professor Dr. James Pennebaker has a simple assignment that he has been giving people for more...

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