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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!

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

Take my '27 Days of Journaling' Survey, Please!

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Journaling Therapy Tips #79, #80 and #81

      #79 * TOY STORY *  What's your favorite toy? Visit a toy department and see which item chooses you. Bring it home with you and introduce it to your Journal and vice versa.

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

How Journaling Changed My Life: Receiving Journal Insight

                              by Lillian GaffneySunday 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...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Self Growth

A Reflective Writing Honoring of Women's History Month

Every March, we celebrate Women’s History Month in the United States, recognizing the many influential female leaders in everything from art and literature to politics and science. Its goal is to...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy

How to Keep a Journal When You Don't Ever Have Any Time

At the start of the New Year, you probably had the best intentions about journaling more often (along with going to the gym five times a week and eating more fruits and veggies). But as the year...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Journaling Personal Best: Paper or Plastic?

                                             Pen or Computer?

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

Creative Journaling With Art: Making a Self-Portrait

Your journal is a multi-faceted reflection of yourself—your triumphs, struggles, heartaches and dreams. Through your journal entries, you can follow your evolution as a person and see how you have...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Journaling Therapy Tips #78 - The Name of the Rose

When you start your daily Journaling, after you’ve put down the day’s date, do you address your Journal in a certain way (Dear _____?). Pass your Journal a note and ask him/her how it wants you to...

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

Creative Journaling Unearths a Younger than Springtime You

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.  -Robert Frost

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Mari L. McCarthy
March 21, 2011

Journaling Therapy Tips #79, #80 and #81

Journaling Therapy Tips #79, #80 and #81
#79 * TOY STORY * What's your favorite toy? Visit a toy department and see which item chooses you. Bring it home with you and introduce it to your...
Mari L. McCarthy
March 18, 2011

How Journaling Changed My Life: Receiving Journal Insight

How Journaling Changed My Life: Receiving Journal Insight
by Lillian GaffneySunday Aug. 26, 1990 I walked to the corner... crossed the street and walked to the phone booth. I opened the door and inserted...
Mari L. McCarthy
March 14, 2011

A Reflective Writing Honoring of Women's History Month

A Reflective Writing Honoring of Women's History Month
Every March, we celebrate Women’s History Month in the United States, recognizing the many influential female leaders in everything from art and...
Mari L. McCarthy
March 11, 2011

How to Keep a Journal When You Don't Ever Have Any Time

How to Keep a Journal When You Don't Ever Have Any Time
At the start of the New Year, you probably had the best intentions about journaling more often (along with going to the gym five times a week and...
Mari L. McCarthy
March 4, 2011

Creative Journaling With Art: Making a Self-Portrait

Creative Journaling With Art: Making a Self-Portrait
Your journal is a multi-faceted reflection of yourself—your triumphs, struggles, heartaches and dreams. Through your journal entries, you can follow...
Mari L. McCarthy
February 28, 2011

Journaling Therapy Tips #78 - The Name of the Rose

Journaling Therapy Tips #78 - The Name of the Rose
When you start your daily Journaling, after you’ve put down the day’s date, do you address your Journal in a certain way (Dear _____?). Pass your...

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