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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 Journeys, Journaling for Men

An Introvert's Confidante

Journaling is not just for introverts, but it has indeed played such a prominent role in my life…helping me work through issues, providing a vehicle for celebrating magic moments, and sparking my own creativity.

 

For much of my 30 years in corporate America, I struggled to recognize and ultimately embrace my own introversion.  Given the increasingly social and pressure-packed aspects of my leadership roles, I often went home at night exhausted. 

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

Journaling to Become My Authentic Self

As I lay in bed waking up that morning in April of 2017, knowing that something was horribly wrong, the thought kept coming to my mind: They meant it for evil, but I meant it for good. It was...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

Journaling: The Gift of Self-Discovery

Journaling has been a transformative vehicle in my life since age twelve when I penned my first words of adolescent angst in my little white leatherette diary with a key. I write because I cannot not...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys, Journaling for Men

8 Ways To Improve Your Writing Skills And Land A Perfect Journalist Position

If you google “how to improve my writing skills,” you’ll come across tons of big promises.

Want to know the truth?

There is no magic trick or hack that can turn a bad writer into a journalist.

...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

Benefits of Journaling for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress

Probably most of us used to have a private diary during the teenage years. The reason why so many teenagers keep a diary is that it is a way to share all the thoughts, fears, and worries without...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

The Life-Changing Benefits of Daily Journaling

There are a lot of reasons why people journal. From dream journals to travel journals and prayer journals to gratitude journals, we keep certain journals for certain areas of our lives.

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

Four Techniques to Deepen Your Journal Writing Practice

One of the many benefits of cultivating and sustaining a journal writing practice is that over time you begin to know and connect with yourself in a deeper way. I've maintained a journal writing...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

Easy Ways to Get Your Self Care Every Day

Self-care is everywhere. It seems like taking care of yourself has become a trend, but self-care isn't just a buzzword, it's a necessity. Neglecting your happiness can cause stress, feelings of...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

A Different Kind of Journaling

I had not journaled for many years before I experienced September 11, 2001. I was in New York City at the World Trade Center, standing between Building 7 and the North Tower when the first plane flew...

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An Introvert's Confidante-featured
Steve Friedman
March 31, 2020

An Introvert's Confidante

An Introvert's Confidante
Journaling is not just for introverts, but it has indeed played such a prominent role in my life…helping me work through issues, providing a vehicle...
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Journaling to Become My Authentic Self-featured
Mary Rechkemmer-Meyer
March 23, 2020

Journaling to Become My Authentic Self

Journaling to Become My Authentic Self
As I lay in bed waking up that morning in April of 2017, knowing that something was horribly wrong, the thought kept coming to my mind: They meant it...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Journaling: The Gift of Self-Discovery-featured
Billie Wade
March 19, 2020

Journaling: The Gift of Self-Discovery

Journaling: The Gift of Self-Discovery
Journaling has been a transformative vehicle in my life since age twelve when I penned my first words of adolescent angst in my little white...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
8 Ways To Improve Your Writing Skills And Land A Perfect Journalist Position-featured
Michael Gorman
March 16, 2020

8 Ways To Improve Your Writing Skills And Land A Perfect Journalist Position

8 Ways To Improve Your Writing Skills And Land A Perfect Journalist Position
If you google “how to improve my writing skills,” you’ll come across tons of big promises. Want to know the truth? There is no magic trick or hack...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Benefits of Journaling for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress-featured
Sandra Larson
March 9, 2020

Benefits of Journaling for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress

Benefits of Journaling for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress
Probably most of us used to have a private diary during the teenage years. The reason why so many teenagers keep a diary is that it is a way to share...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
The Life-Changing Benefits of Daily Journaling-featured
Isabell Gaylord
March 2, 2020

The Life-Changing Benefits of Daily Journaling

The Life-Changing Benefits of Daily Journaling
There are a lot of reasons why people journal. From dream journals to travel journals and prayer journals to gratitude journals, we keep certain...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Four Techniques to Deepen Your Journal Writing Practice-featured
Tara C. Pray
February 27, 2020

Four Techniques to Deepen Your Journal Writing Practice

Four Techniques to Deepen Your Journal Writing Practice
One of the many benefits of cultivating and sustaining a journal writing practice is that over time you begin to know and connect with yourself in a...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Easy Ways to Get Your Self Care Every Day-featured
Michelle Cornish
February 24, 2020

Easy Ways to Get Your Self Care Every Day

Easy Ways to Get Your Self Care Every Day
Self-care is everywhere. It seems like taking care of yourself has become a trend, but self-care isn't just a buzzword, it's a necessity. Neglecting...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
A Different Kind of Journaling-featured
Jodi Graber Pratt
February 18, 2020

A Different Kind of Journaling

A Different Kind of Journaling
I had not journaled for many years before I experienced September 11, 2001. I was in New York City at the World Trade Center, standing between...
Read More Details Click to view blog post

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