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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

How to Start a Journal

Mari L. McCarthy

There is only one way to start a journal—Your Way.

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Journal Writing Therapy Now Comes in Book Form Too

Mari L. McCarthy

Samara O’Shea has written THE BOOK on journaling. She shows us how journaling fits into our life and gives us a hand with the slings and arrows of getting a life. She deals with the “reasons” we...

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

Happy Christmas to All and to All a Good Write !

Mari L. McCarthy

I came upon this verse so clear from a Christmas Card I'd created long ago:

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Just for the Health of It --Journal Writing

Mari L. McCarthy

Manpreet Juneja is today's guest columnist . You can find her at the Women network and at Blog #1 and Blog #2 . This is reprinted from June's Journal-Write NEWS. Writing to me was just a way of...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Journaling the Change We Need

Mari L. McCarthy

Barack Obama becomes our 44 th president on January 20, and in this transition period he is beginning to transfer power back to where it belongs—We the People. As we have voted for him to help us...

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

Frank Sinatra Was a Journaling Man

Mari L. McCarthy

I wish he were a friend of mine. I always understood each single word he said and he always sang some mighty fine rhyme.*Yes, Ol' Blue Eyes kept a personal journal. In fact “KEEP A JOURNAL” was one...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Writing Your Wrong Ways

Mari L. McCarthy

"As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way"Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Journal Writing: Whose Life is this Anyway?

Mari L. McCarthy

Mari L. McCarthy

January 15, 2009

How to Start a Journal

There is only one way to start a journal—Your Way.

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Journal Writing Therapy Now Comes in Book Form Too-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

December 30, 2008

Journal Writing Therapy Now Comes in Book Form Too

Samara O’Shea has written THE BOOK on journaling. She shows us how journaling fits into our life and gives us a hand with the slings and arrows of...

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Mari L. McCarthy

December 22, 2008

Happy Christmas to All and to All a Good Write !

I came upon this verse so clear from a Christmas Card I'd created long ago:

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Just for the Health of It --Journal Writing-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

November 23, 2008

Just for the Health of It --Journal Writing

Manpreet Juneja is today's guest columnist . You can find her at the Women network and at Blog #1 and Blog #2 . This is reprinted from June's ...

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Mari L. McCarthy

November 18, 2008

Journaling the Change We Need

Barack Obama becomes our 44 th president on January 20, and in this transition period he is beginning to transfer power back to where it belongs—We...

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