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Mari's Journaling Power Blog

Familiarity Brings Respect

"It's all in your head," the doctor announced as he showed me my MRI that sticky July Friday afternoon. There were white spots.everywhere. Oh, no, my beloved brain was broken. How could this be happening to the most important part of me?

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy

How to Journal Through Sickness to Health

When our bodies are not well—when we get sick frequently or have recurring aches and pains—the last solution we think of (if at all) is journaling. In fact, journaling can be an excellent starting...
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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Journaling on the Silver Screen

Journaling is, by nature, a solitary exercise. We write our most intimate secrets in the pages of our journal, so it isn’t every day that we can share the experience with others. It’s refreshing...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog

Journal Writing Your Way to Healthy Eating

Food is clearly an integral part of our physical well-being, but it is also very much connected to our emotional health. It nourishes our bodies and affects how we feel. Sometimes, without even...
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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Journaling Tips the Scales for Personal Development

So you have opened up your journal to a fresh page and are ready to write. Now what? Here are three simple tips to help you use your journal to develop your strengths, improve your self-awareness and...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Journaling for a Daily Dose of Focus

Journaling on a regular (preferably daily) basis can be an invaluable tool to help you determine your goals  and create an action plan to achieve them. We’ve talked about setting SMART goals ...
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Mari's Journaling Power Blog

Managing Mic

When my bosses asked me (again!) to forego the job transfer I wanted and stay where "they really needed me", I quit. No job. No plan.

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog

Reupholstering A Life

Before 1991, I existed for everyone else.

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog

Iowa Autumn

I walked through the early morning Wuthering Heights weather searching for the campus theatre, when suddenly my knees bumped into the inground "Red Masquers Performance Center" marquee.

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Mari L. McCarthy
July 10, 2010

Familiarity Brings Respect

Familiarity Brings Respect
"It's all in your head," the doctor announced as he showed me my MRI that sticky July Friday afternoon. There were white spots.everywhere. Oh, no, my...
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How to Journal Through Sickness to Health-featured
Mari L. McCarthy
July 6, 2010

How to Journal Through Sickness to Health

How to Journal Through Sickness to Health
When our bodies are not well—when we get sick frequently or have recurring aches and pains—the last solution we think of (if at all) is journaling....
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Journaling on the Silver Screen-featured
Mari L. McCarthy
June 29, 2010

Journaling on the Silver Screen

Journaling on the Silver Screen
Journaling is, by nature, a solitary exercise. We write our most intimate secrets in the pages of our journal, so it isn’t every day that we can...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Journal Writing Your Way to Healthy Eating-featured
Mari McCarthy
June 22, 2010

Journal Writing Your Way to Healthy Eating

Journal Writing Your Way to Healthy Eating
Food is clearly an integral part of our physical well-being, but it is also very much connected to our emotional health. It nourishes our bodies and...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
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Mari L. McCarthy
June 15, 2010

Journaling Tips the Scales for Personal Development

Journaling Tips the Scales for Personal Development
So you have opened up your journal to a fresh page and are ready to write. Now what? Here are three simple tips to help you use your journal to...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Journaling for a Daily Dose of Focus-featured
Mari McCarthy
June 8, 2010

Journaling for a Daily Dose of Focus

Journaling for a Daily Dose of Focus
Journaling on a regular (preferably daily) basis can be an invaluable tool to help you determine your goals and create an action plan to achieve...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
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Mari L. McCarthy
June 7, 2010

Managing Mic

Managing Mic
When my bosses asked me (again!) to forego the job transfer I wanted and stay where "they really needed me", I quit. No job. No plan.
Read More Details Click to view blog post
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Mari L. McCarthy
June 4, 2010

Reupholstering A Life

Reupholstering A Life
Before 1991, I existed for everyone else.
Read More Details Click to view blog post
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Mari L. McCarthy
June 2, 2010

Iowa Autumn

Iowa Autumn
I walked through the early morning Wuthering Heights weather searching for the campus theatre, when suddenly my knees bumped into the inground "Red...
Read More Details Click to view blog post

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