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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Self Growth

Teach Your Doggone Inner Critic How to Heal

Everybody has an Inner Critic. Some, like me, have more than one. Here's My Inner Critic Mic, as he looked when we met in 2001. On my journal writing* excavations,   I’ve unearthed Mic’s extensive Band of Wary Men.  I really created an academy award winner!

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy

Happy Inner Talk Your Way Out of Your Past

Sometimes, life’s a @#$%^. But not all the time. We whine like that because we are stuck in the past thinking, feeling and behaving the way we did as self-unsure, scared youngsters.Journaling helps...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Journal Writing Covers a Multitude of Wins

Journaling is a scary proposition and the fear starts long before you sit down to write! This chronic health challenge all of us writers face is PAGE FRIGHT. Also known as Performance Anxiety. The...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Journal Writing Works Wonders in Curing Disease

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy

How to Start a Journal

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

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

Writing Journals Keep You on Your Goals

We look at January as the time to resolve again to do all the things that we could have, should have, and meant to do last year: exercise more, weigh less, change careers and leave unfulfilling...

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

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 getting a life. She deals with the “reasons” we...

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

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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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Journaling, Journaling, Journaling All The Way...

This year do something new and different--put “You” on the top of your Christmas list. Gift yourself some time. Write a letter to Santa with all your wishes and wants. The North Pole is now open 24/7...

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Mari L. McCarthy
March 5, 2009

Teach Your Doggone Inner Critic How to Heal

Teach Your Doggone Inner Critic How to Heal
Everybody has an Inner Critic. Some, like me, have more than one. Here's My Inner Critic Mic, as he looked when we met in 2001. On my journal...
www.createwritenow.com Admin
February 24, 2009

Happy Inner Talk Your Way Out of Your Past

Happy Inner Talk Your Way Out of Your Past
Sometimes, life’s a @#$%^. But not all the time. We whine like that because we are stuck in the past thinking, feeling and behaving the way we did...
www.createwritenow.com Admin
February 17, 2009

Journal Writing Covers a Multitude of Wins

Journal Writing Covers a Multitude of Wins
Journaling is a scary proposition and the fear starts long before you sit down to write! This chronic health challenge all of us writers face is ...
Mari L. McCarthy
January 15, 2009

How to Start a Journal

How to Start a Journal
There is only one way to start a journal—Your Way.
www.createwritenow.com Admin
January 3, 2009

Writing Journals Keep You on Your Goals

Writing Journals Keep You on Your Goals
We look at January as the time to resolve again to do all the things that we could have, should have, and meant to do last year: exercise more, weigh...
Mari L. McCarthy
December 30, 2008

Journal Writing Therapy Now Comes in Book Form Too

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...
Mari L. McCarthy
December 22, 2008

Happy Christmas to All and to All a Good Write !

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:
www.createwritenow.com Admin
December 5, 2008

Journaling, Journaling, Journaling All The Way...

Journaling, Journaling, Journaling All The Way...
This year do something new and different--put “You” on the top of your Christmas list. Gift yourself some time. Write a letter to Santa with all your...

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