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# Journal Writing Therapy Now Comes in Book Form Too

Tag - [Journaling Therapy](https://www.createwritenow.com/journal-writing-blog/topic/journaling-therapy), [Self Growth](https://www.createwritenow.com/journal-writing-blog/topic/self-growth)

Author - [Mari L. McCarthy](https://www.createwritenow.com/journal-writing-blog/author/mari-l-mccarthy)

Published - December 30, 2008

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[Samara O’Shea](http://www.letterlover.net/) 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 give for not journal writing like: I'm not a writer. Her response: “If you are a thinker, you are a writer. Writing is simply thoughts making their way to paper…if a thought is begging to breathe the fresh air then it's best to open the door and let it out.”

She shows us there is only one right way to journal -- our way. It's our choice as to whether we write every day, alternate Tuesdays, once in a blue moon or whenever. She says she “writes what she wants when she wants.” 

In **NOTE TO SELF**, we learn from journals of Tennessee Williams, Lewis Carroll and John Wilkes Booth (yes, Virginia , journaling is a guy thing!).

I loved all the honest and insightful chapters and my favorite today is Chapter 5 -Sense of Self, which opens with a William Shakespeare quote, “Self-love is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting”. That's why I love Journaling: I discover more and more and more about myself, experience my true/real self and build a healthy, compassionate, forgiving relationship with my self. The more I journal, the smarter I become about Me, Myself and I.

Journaling does what Samara says it does--it helps me with everything from achieving goals to sorting out my sexuality.

I recommend **NOTE TO SELF** to all my clients and subscribers and have stolen some of Samara's suggestions for my own journaling and for my workshops.

Well done indeed, Samara!

 

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